BORRAGINACE^E 859 



CONSPECTUS OF THE ARBORESCENT SPECIES OF THE UNITED STATES. 



Corolla orange or flame color; fruit inclosed in the smooth glabrous thickened ivory-white 

 calyx; leaves ovate. 1. C. Sebestena (D). 



Corolla white with a yellow centre; fruit entirely or partly inclosed in the thin many-ribbed 

 tomentose orange-brown calyx; leaves oval or oblong-ovate. 



2. C. Boissieri (E, H). 



1. Cordia Sebestena L. Geiger-tree. 



Leaves unfolding through a large part of the year, ovate, short-pointed or rounded at 

 apex, rounded, subcordate, or cuneate at base, entire or remotely and coarsely serrate above 

 the middle, covered when they unfold, like the branches of the inflorescence, the outside of 

 the calyx, and the young branchlets, with thick dense rusty tomentum and with short rigid 



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pale hairs, and at maturity thick and firm, dark green, scabrous-pubescent, or often nearly 

 glabrous below, reticulate-venulose, 5'-6' long and 3'-4' wide, with a broad midrib usually 

 covered below with pale hairs, especially in the axils of remote primary veins connected by 

 conspicuous cross veinlets; petioles stout, pubescent, I'-l^' in length. Flowers appearing 

 throughout the year on slender pedicels, in open flat cymes 6'-7' in diameter, some individ- 

 uals producing flowers with short included stamens and elongated styles, and others with 

 exserted stamens and included styles; calyx tubular, |'-f ' long, and obscurely many-rayed, 

 with short nearly triangular rigid teeth; corolla orange or flame color, puberulous on the 

 outer surface, with a slender tube about twice as long as the calyx and spreading rounded 

 lobes, irregularly undulate on the margins and I'-lJ' in diameter when fully expanded; 

 ovary conic, glabrous, contracted into a slender style branched near the apex. Fruit broad- 

 ovate, rather abruptly narrowed and pointed at apex, concave at base, If-lj' long and 

 about f ' broad, inclosed in the thickened fibrous calyx smooth and ivory-white on the outer 

 surface; flesh thin, pale, and corky, separable from the irregularly sulcate thick-walled 

 stone gradually narrowed and acuminate at apex, and deeply lobed at base; seeds linear- 

 lanceolate, \' long, with a delicate white seed-coat. 



A tree, in Florida 25-30 high, with a tall trunk 5'-6' in diameter, slender upright 

 branches forming a narrow close round-topped head, and stout branchlets with thick pith, 

 dark green at first, becoming ashy gray and marked by large nearly orbicular cordate leaf- 

 scars displaying 2 central circular clusters of fibre-vascular bundle-scars. Bark of the 

 trunk |'-f ' thick, dark brown, frequently nearly black, and deeply and irregularly divided 



