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These plants afford variety, in assemblage with 

 others of the same sort. 



CORDIA, a genus comprising a plant of the 

 flowering shrubby exotic kind, for the stove. 



It belongs to the class and order Pentandria 

 Monogynia, and ranks in the natural order of 

 Asperifolice. 



The characters are: that the calyx is a one- 

 Ieafed, tubular perianthium, toothed at the top, 



fiermanent : the corolla one-petailed, funnel- 

 orm : tube patulous, length of the calyx: bor- 

 der erect-spreading, cut into five (four or six) 

 obtuse divisions : the stamina have five filaments, 

 subulate : anthers oblong, length of the tube : 

 the pistillum is a roundish germ, acuminate: 

 style simple, length of the stamens, bifid at top ; 

 divisions bifid : stigmas obtuse: the pericarpium 

 is a globose drupe, acuminate, growing to the 

 calyx: seed, a nut furrowed, four-celled. 



The species mostly cultivated is C. Sthestena, 

 Sebesten, or Rough-leaved Cordia. 



It has several shrubby stems, eight or nine 

 feet high, having towards the top rough alternate 

 leaves on short petioles, of a deep green on their 

 upper side. The flowers terminating in large 

 clusters upon branching peduncles, sustaining 

 one, two, or three flowers. The corolla is large, 

 with a long tube, spreading open at top, and 

 there divided into five obtuse segments ; it is 

 of a beautiful scarlet colour, making a fine 

 appearance. A small piece of the wood thrown 

 on a pan of lighted coals, perfumes the whole 

 house with a most agreeable smell. It is a native 

 of both the Indies. 



It is from the juice of the leaves, combined 

 with that of the fruit of a species of fig, that 

 the fine red colour with which they dye their 

 cloths in Otaheite is prepared. 



Culture. — It is raised by sowing seed obtained 

 from the West Indies, as soon as possible after 

 they arrive, in pots of light earth, plunging them 

 in a common hot-bed or bark-bed ; and when 

 the plants have two or three months' growth, 

 they should be pricked out singly in small pots, 

 replunging them in the hot-bed, to forward their 

 rooting afresh ; being afterwards continued con- 

 stantly in the stove or hot-house. They re- 

 quire frequent watering in the summer. 



Plants of this sortare very ornamental in stove- 

 collections. 



COREOPSIS, a genus containing plants of 

 the flowering herbaceous perennial kind. Tick- 

 seeded Sun-flower. 



It belongs to the class and order Sijvgenesia 

 Polygamia Frustranea, and ranks in the natural 

 order of Composite? oppositifolice. 



The characters are : that the calyx is common, 

 either simple, subimbricate, or doubled : the ex- 



terior usually with eight leaflets, which are coarse, 

 and placed in a circle ; the interior with as many 

 larger ones, membranaceous and coloured : the 

 corolla compound rayed : corollets hermaphro- 

 dite, numerous in the disk: females eight in the 

 ray: proper, of the hermaphrodite tubular, five- 

 toothed: female ligulate, four-to thed, spread- 

 ing, large: the stamina in the hermaphrodites, 

 filaments five, capillary, very short: anther cylin- 

 dric, tubular : the pistillum in the hermaphro- 

 dites: germ compressed: style filiform, length 

 of the stamens: stigma bifid, acute, slender: 

 in the females, germ like the hermaphrodites : 

 style and stigma none: there is no pericarpium: 

 calyx scarce altered : the seed in the hermaphro- 

 dite solitary, orbiculate, convex on one side, con- 

 cave on the other, with a transverse protube- 

 rance at top and bottom, surrounded by a mem- 

 branaceous edge, with a two-horned tip : in the 

 females none : the receptacle chaffy. 



The species cultivated are: 1. C. verticiUaia, 

 Whole-leaved Coropsis, or Tick-seed Sun- 

 flower; 2. C. tripteris, Three-leaved Coreop- 

 sis; 3. C. alternifolia, Alternate-leaved Core- 

 opsis ; 4. C. lanceolala, Spear-leaved Co- 

 reopsis. 



The first has a perennial root, with many tall, 

 stiff, angular stems, upwards of three feet high. 

 The leaves are opposite, often in whorls ; leaflets 

 very narrow and entire; the branches opposite; 

 the peduncles long, slender, and one-flower- 

 ed ; the ray yellow ; and the disk dark purple. 

 It continues long in flower in the latter end of 

 the summer ; and is a native of North America. 



The second species has likewise a perennial 

 root ; the stems strong, round, smooth, six or 

 seven feet high : the flowers in bunches at the 

 top of the stem, on long peduncles ; ray of the 

 corolla pale yellow ; disk dark purple. It is a 

 native of North America. 



The third has a woody perennial root : the 

 stems several, annual, erect, angular, rilled with 

 white pith, winged, from five to ten feet high, 

 simple, having only very short subdivisions at 

 the top into roundish villose peduncles : the 

 leaves are rugged on both sides, of a dirty green 

 colour; thelowerones three or four together, or 

 two opposite, the rest alternate, decurrent. The 

 flowers are large, of a yellowish colour, coming 

 out late. It is a native of Virginia. 



The fourth species has several stems, decum- 

 bent at bottom, and thence arising obliquely, a 

 foot and a half or two feet in length. At each 

 joint a pair of oblong leaves, with other smaller 

 ones. The peduncles are round and smooth. 

 The florets in the ray eight or nine, broad, with 

 four deep large teeth at the end. It is a native 

 of Carolina, and lasts two or three years. 



