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CORDIACE.E. I. CORDIA. 



as is also the rim round the mouth of the gibbous tube of the 

 corolla where they are inserted. Size of flowers not mentioned 

 by Roxburgh. 



Moluccas Cordia. Tree. 



13 C. TOMENTOSA (Wall, in Roxb. fl. ind. 2. p. 339.) leaves 

 round-ovate, more or less cordate at the base, repand, entire, 

 smooth above, but very soft and tomentose beneath ; calyx 

 ovate, villous within, fj . S. Native of the East Indies. C. 

 obliqua, var. Heyne, herb. The densely tomentose, soft, acute 

 leaves distinguish this species from C. Myxa, of which C. 

 obliqua, Willd. is probably only a variety. C. domestlca, Roth, 

 comes very near to this, but differs in the figure and comparative 

 smoothness of the leaves. The flowers are largish. 



Tomentose Cordia. Tree. 



14 C. COLLOCOCCA (Lin. spec. 274.) leaves oblong-ovate, 

 quite entire ; corymbs loose, terminal, somewhat panicled ; 

 calyx tomentose inside. I? . S. Native of Jamaica. C. glabra, 

 Lin. spec. ed. 1st. p. 191. Collococcus foliis rugosis, &c. 

 Browne, jam. p. 167. Sloane, jam. p. 169. hist. 2. p. 95. t. 

 203. f. 2. Plukn. phyt. t. 158. f. 1.? Leaves attenuated at 

 the base, acuminated, wrinkled, nearly glabrous. Branches of 

 corymb unequal. Corolla middle-sized, with deep green seg- 

 ments. Drupe red, clammy, villous, containing a wrinkled, 

 lacunose putamen. Turkeys and other poultry feed much upon 

 the fruit ; the pulp is sweetish, and of a clammy consistence. 

 In Jamaica it has the name of Clammy-cherry and Turkey- 

 berry tree, ex Browne. 



Neck-fruited Cordia. Fl. ? Clt. 1759. Tree 20 to 50 feet. 



15 C. TETRAPHY'LLA (Aubl. guian. 1. p. 224. t. 88.) leaves 

 obovate, narrowed at the base, 4 in a whorl, entire, glabrous ; 

 corymbs lateral, pedunculate ; calyx smooth, with 5 acute 

 teeth ; drupe olive-formed, containing a 1 -celled putamen. Jj . 

 S. Native of Guiana, by the sea-side. Lam. ill. no. 1908. 

 Willd. spec. 1. p. 1076. Branches nodose. Leaves nearly 

 sessile, acutish. Corolla white, funnel-shaped : lobes 5, round- 

 ish, acutish. Stamens 5, exserted. Drupe yellowish, fleshy, 

 size of an olive. 



Four-leaved Cordia. Shrub 6 to 7 feet. 



16 C. NODOSA (Lam. ill. no. 1 905.) branchlets nodose, hispid ; 

 leaves ovate-oblong, acuminated, pilose, usually 3 in a whorl ; 

 calyx turbinate, villous, or bearded ; corymbs terminal and 

 axillary, hairy, pedunculate ; drupe containing a 2-celled puta- 

 men. f} . S. Native of Guiana and Cayenne, in woods. C. 

 collococcus, Aubl. guian. 1. p. 219. t. 86, but not of Willd. 

 C. hirsuta, Willd. spec. 1. p. 1076. Meyer esseq. p. 114. 

 Leaves sessile, green, pilose on both surfaces. Corymbs beset 

 with rufescent hairs. Calyx 5-toothed, teeth very short. Co- 

 rolla white, having the tube thickened at the throat. This 

 species differs from C. collococca in the characters given above, 

 and in the narrower leaves ; coarctate subumbellate corymbs, 

 not dichotomous and divaricate ; and in the white, oblique, 

 acuminated fruit. The stamens are exserted. 



A'noMerf-branched Cordia. Fl. June, Julv. Clt. 1803. Shrub 

 6 feet. 



17 C. ELLIPTICA (Swartz. prod. p. 47. fl. ind. occ. 1. p. 461.) 

 leaves petiolate, oblong, entire, attenuated at apex, rather cori- 

 aceous, glabrous; racemes terminal, dichotomous, compound, 

 diffuse ; calyx coriaceous, tubular, glabrous, 2-5-toothed ; 

 drupe acuminated, nearly inclosed. f; . S. Native of Jamaica 

 and St. Domingo. Leaves shining above. Flowers rather 

 large. Corolla white ; tube hardly longer than the calyx, 

 gibbous at the base ; segments of the limb linear-lanceolate, 

 reflexed. Filaments bearded in the tube of the corolla ; anthers 

 glandular at top. Putamen wrinkled. 



Elliptic-leaved Cordia. Clt. 1804. Tree 30 to 50 feet. 



18 C. ASPE'RRIMA (Spreng. syst. 1. p. 649.) leaves ovate- 



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oblong, obtuse, crenulated, rough from dots above, and hispid 

 and tomentose beneath : floral ones obovate, entire, clothed 

 with fulvous tomentum ; peduncles cymose, panicled ; calyx 

 campanulate. fj . S. Native of Brazil. 

 Very-rough Cordia. Shrub or Tree. 



19 C. siRio6sA (Spreng. syst. 1. p. 649.) leaves rhomboid, 

 coarsely toothed, strigose on both surfaces ; peduncles cymose, 

 elongated ; calyx strigose, campanulate, with subulate segments, 

 fj . S. Native of St. Domingo. 



Strigose Cordia. Shrub or Tree. 



SECT. II. MICRA'NTH*. (from piKpoe, micros, small ; and 

 ardos, anthos, a flower. The flowers are small compared with 

 those of the preceding section.) Cham, et Schlecht in Linnsca, 

 4. p. 476. and 8. p. 124. All as in the preceding section, but 

 the flowers are small. 



* Species natives of America. 



20 C. MAONOLI*FOLIA (Cham, et Schlecht in Linnsea, 4. p. 

 476.) leaves on short petioles, cuneated at the base, elliptic, 

 acuminated, acute, mucronate, entire, rarely furnished with an 

 accessary tooth near the acumen, rather coriaceous, with re- 

 flexed margins, quite glabrous in the adult state, but when 

 young rather strigose, as well as the buds and branches of 

 inflorescence ; inflorescence terminal, sessile ; panicle subfasti- 

 giate, composed of 3-5 tri-dichotomous branches ; calyx pilose 

 outside ; corolla salver-shaped, glabrous : tube length of ca- 

 lyx : segments narrow-elliptic, obtuse, one-half longer than 

 the tube ; drupe size of a cherry. ^ . S. Native of the 

 south of Brazil, Sello. Branches densely leafy, bluntly, many 

 angled from the decurrent insertion of the petioles, pilose at 

 the internodes. Calyx irregularly 3-4-lobed. Stamens much 

 exserted. Stigmas lanceolate. Leaves 9 inches long, and 2^ 

 broad, sometimes somewhat tricuspidate at apex. 



Magnolia- leaved Cordia. Tree. 



21 C. DIOSPYR.IFOLIA (Cham, et Schlecht, I. c. p. 477.) leaves 

 on short petioles, elliptic or obovate, sometimes oblong, attenu- 

 ated at the base, and acute, undulated on the margins, bluntly 

 acuminated at the apex, mucronate, rather coriaceous, beset with 

 a few scattered hairs on both surfaces, shining beneath, and 

 more opaque above ; panicles expanded, convex, on short or 

 long peduncles, more pilose towards the top ; calyx pilose out- 

 side and inside, usually 5-cleft ; tube of corolla cylindrical ; 

 stamens shorter than the segments of the corolla. tj . S. 

 Native of the south of Brazil, Sello. This species is nearly- 

 allied to the preceding, but differs from it in the leaves being 

 smaller, elliptic, or obovate, beset with scattered hairs on both 

 surfaces ; in the stamens being about equal in length to the 

 segments of the corolla, not exceeding them. 



Date-plum-leaved Cordia. Tree. 



22 C. SELT.OWIA'NA (Cham, et Schlecht, 1. c p. 478.) leaves 

 on short petioles, ovate, entire, bluntly cuneated at the base, 

 and attenuated at the apex, acuminated, at first downy, in the 

 adult state scabrous and shining above, but clothed with velvety 

 tomentum beneath ; inflorescence lateral ; cymes large, 3-6 tri- 

 chotomous and dichotomous, tomentose : calyx campanulate, 5- 

 toothed : teeth acute ; corolla salver-shaped, glabrous ; stamens 

 much exserted. T? . S. Native of the south of Brazil. Very 

 nearly allied to C. macrophylla, Lin. and C. pubescens, Willd. 

 herb. Roem. et Schultes, syst. 4. p. 803. See Desf. ann. mus. 

 1. p. 205. Branches terete, clothed with rufescent tomentum. 

 Leaves 10 inches long. Corolla having the tube length of 

 calyx ; segments shorter, obtuse, reflexed. Stamens villous at 

 the base, as well as the tube of the corolla at their insertion. 

 Ovarium globose, glabrous ; style hairy. 



