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NiA 1815, both in Nat. Order Polymia with 

 many styles or stigmas. 



170. CoRDiA L. auct. only 6 sp. in Lin. 18 in 

 W. Pers. 32 bam, and Rees Cycl. 26 in Kunth 

 mostly new ; thus about 50 sp. are now referred 

 to it at random, in as great confusion as Rham- 

 nus was, united by no common character except 

 style bifid, 2-4stigmas, since even Varronia 

 and the capsular Patagonula have been thrown 

 into it ! This requires therefore a complete re- 

 vision which I will partly effect, and will be 

 able to form 12 good Genera out of them, some 

 of which already in Necker. I will confine the 

 real Cordia as follows — Cordia Raf. cal. cam- 

 pan. -5dent.persistens cor. subcamp. 5fida, faux 

 pilosa, stam. 5, ovar. 41oc. stylus dichot. stig. 4 

 obtusis drupa 2loc. 2Sp. Arhoreis inermis, foL 

 alt. petiol. jl, corymb, liermaphr. — Thus fixed 

 and reduced this G. will include but few Sp.and 

 protem those not well known as yet, such as 

 many of Kunth ; but the types will be the 4 fol- 

 lowing Sp. besides C. exaltata, serrata, denta- 

 ta, levigata, micranthus Sac, 



171. Cordia myxa L, auct. Vidimaram Rh. 4) 

 t. 37) fol. ovatis supra glabris subtus scabris, 

 subacum. integris, corymbis later, calycib. 

 lOstriatis — East Indies, large tree, fl. yellow, 

 drupes globose acuminate, very different from 

 next* Very akin to Cerdana and Coilanthera 

 by the calix. It must form the subg. Myxos. 

 Cerdana differs by nectary. 



172. Cordia Egyptiaca Raf ramis angul. ver- 

 rucosis, fol. subrotundis vix acutis, integris su- 

 pra glabris. subtus puberis, corymbis terminal, 

 subpaniculatis, calycib. levis — I describe this 

 from an Egyptian specimen before me ; it was 

 blended with the last by Lin. and all Authors, 



