336 LVI. boeagine^:. [Cordia. 



1. CORDIA, Linn. 



Trees or shrubs.; flowers often polygamous, in terminal or leaf-opposed 

 cymes, bracts small or none. Calyx tubular turbinate or campanulate, 

 4- or 5-toothed or irregularly toothed or lobed. Corolla-tube cylindrical or 

 funnel-shaped, limb 4-5, sometimes more, -lobed. Ovary entire, 4-celled, 

 1 ovule in each cell ; style terminal, twice forked. Fruit a drupe, en- 

 docarp hard, often perforated at the apex, cells 4 or fewer by abortion. 

 Albumen none, cotyledons plaited lengthwise. 



Leaves generally alternate, ovate or cordate ; flowers generally 

 pentandrous. 

 Leaves broad-ovate or rotundate, base rounded or cuneate ; 



calyx not ribbed . 1. C. Myxa. 



Leaves cordate ; branchlets with dense grey or tawny tomen- 



tum ; calyx ribbed ....... 2. G. Macleodii. 



Leaves broad - elliptic, or rotundate, dense tufts of rust- 

 coloured hairs at the axils ; calyx ribbed . . . 3. C. vestila. 

 Leaves generally subopposite, oblanceolate ; flowers generally 



tetrandrous 4. C. Eothii. 



1. C. Myxa, Linn. ; Eoxb. Fl. Ind. i. 590 ; "Wight 111. t. 169. Syn. 

 C. obliqua, Willd.; Wight Ic. t. 1378. C. latifolia, Eoxb. 1. c. 588. C. 

 polygama, Eoxb. 1. c. 594. Sans. Selu. Vern. Lasora, lassora, lesura, 

 bhokar, Hindi ; Lasivara, lasiara, Pb. ; Lesuri, giduri, Sindh ; Borla, 

 bairala, baurala, Kamaon ; Gondhun, khdtu, Satpura range, C.P.; Bar- 

 gund, vargund, Mar. ; Sepistan, pistan, Guz. ; Thanatben, Burm. 



A middle-sized tree ; young leaves soft-pubescent beneath, more or less 

 rough when full-grown, broad-ovate or rotundate, base rounded or short- 

 cuneate, blade 3-6 in. long, petiole 1-2 in.; main lateral nerves 4-6 pair, 1 

 or 2 pair from the base of the leaf. Flowers white, polygamous, pentan- 

 drous, on short pedicels, in loose terminal and lateral pedunculate cymes, 

 without bracts. Calyx without prominent ribs, entire and closed over the 

 corolla in the bud, splitting irregularly, when the flower expands, into 

 5 short lobes, nearly glabrous outside, lobes hairy inside. Corolla-tube 

 nearly as long as calyx, with 5 narrow, recurved lobes, as long as the tube. 

 Stamens exserted, filaments hairy. Drupe supported by the enlarged 

 and hardened calyx, its limb irregularly and broadly toothed, ovoid or 

 nearly globose, f-1 J in. long, puberulous when young ; when ripe, min- 

 utely rugose, but shining, yellowish brown, pink or nearly black. Kernel 

 very hard, rugose, 1- or 2- celled, in a rough viscid sweetish almost trans- 

 parent pulp. 



Cultivated throughout India, wild in the Panjab Salt range, the outer Hima- 

 laya and Siwalik tract, from the Chenab to Assam, ascending to 5000 ft. Kasia 

 hills. Gonda forests in Oudh, Satpura range, C.P. Also South India, Ceylon, 

 Burma, Indian Archipelago, and Queensland. Leaves are shed in April, and re- 

 newed soon after ; fl. March, April ; fr. May- July. Growth moderately quick, 

 3-6 rings per in. A very hardy tree. 30-40 ft. high, trunk short, erector some- 

 what crooked, 4-5, at times 6 ft. girth, branches numerous, spreading, then 

 ascending, forming a handsome rounded crown with dense bright-green foliage. 

 Branchlets reddish grey, glabrous, bark |-1 in. thick, light- or dark-cinereous, 





