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species ranges from the East Indies, Zanzibar, and Madagascar across the Pacific to 

 Hawaii. Doctor Hillebrand thinks that its distribution throughout Polynesia has 

 been due to human agency. a 

 REFERENCES: 



Cordia subcordata Lam. Illustr. 1 : 421. no. 1899. 1791. 



Cordyline hyacinthoides. BOW-STRING HEMP. 



Family Liliaceae. 



LOCAL NAMES. Tigre (Guam, Philippines) 



A stemless plant with succulent, thick, fibrous, sword-shaped leaves, having a 

 sheathing base and a straight spine at the apex. It takes its local name from the 

 variegated coloration of the leaves. Flowers inconspicuous, greenish- white, disposed 

 in the form of a raceme rising from the center. 



The leaves yield an excellent, soft, silky, elastic fiber, from which in ancient times 

 the Hindus made their bowstrings. In Guam the plant is cultivated for ornament, 

 many of the natives having it growing in their gardens and in pots, but not other- 

 wise utilized. In Manila a double line of it borders the walk approaching the palace. 

 REFERENCES: 



Cordyline hyacinthoides ( L. ) 

 Aloe hyacinthoides L. Sp. PI. 1 : 321. 1753. 

 Aloe hyacinthoides zeylanica L. Sp. PI. 1: 321. 1753. 

 Aletris hyacinthoides zeylanica L. Sp. PL ed. 2. 1: 456. 1762. 

 Sanseviera zeylanica Willd. Sp. PI. 2: 159. 1799. 



The earliest post-Linnsean use of the name Cordyline was by Adanson, Fam. PL 

 2: 54, 543. 1763, who gives Royen as the authority for the name, but apparently does 

 not use it in the same sense in which it was employed by that author. Royen 

 included in his genus Cordyline two species of the Linnsean genus Yucca and a third 

 cited by Linnaeus under the latter' s Asparagus draco, while the specific references 

 given by Adanson, "Katukapel, H. M. 11: t. 42, Aloe Comm. H. 2. L 20, 26, Pluk. 

 t. 256. f. 5., and Lin. Sp. 321. No. 4.," are associable by citation with the species 

 named by Linnaeus Aloe hyacinthoides, or with one of its subspecies. The modern 

 use of the name, however, appears to be in the sense in which it was mentioned by 

 Jussieu, Gen. PL 41. 1789, and does not include any of the species included in it by 

 either Royen or Adanson. " Cordyline" is accordingly here used as the name of the 

 genus for which it was first properly published after 1753. W. F. WIGHT. 

 Cordyline terminalis Kunth. See Taetsia terminalis. 

 Corkwood. See Parili tiliaceum. 



Cormigonus mariannensis. TORCHWOOD. 



Family Rubiaceae. 

 LOCAL NAMES. Gausdli (Guam). 



A small tree growing in rocky places, and especially abundant on the Peninsula of 

 Orote and the island of Apapa, bearing a profusion of white trumpet-shaped flowers, 

 appearing from a distance somewhat like morning-glories, but 4-parted. The wood 

 ignites easily and is used for torches. 

 REFERENCES: 



Cormigonus mariannense ( Brongn. ) 



Bikkia mariannensis Brongn. Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. 13: 42. 1866. 

 The name Cormigonus Raf. 1820 is several years earlier than Bikkia. 

 Coromandel gooseberry. See Averrhoa carambola. 

 Cotorrera (Porto Rico). See Heliotropum indicum. 

 Cotorrera de la play a (Porto Rico). See Heliotropum curassavicum. 

 Cotton. See Gossypium arboreum and G. barbadense. 



Flora, Hawaiian Islands, p. 321, 1888. 



