BORRAGINACE^ 783 



appressecl scales. Wood heavy, hard, close-grained, dark brown, with thick light 

 brown or yellow sapwood. 



Distribution. Keys of southern Florida; common but possibly only as an escape 

 from cultivation; also on the Bahama Islands, on most of the Antilles, and in Guiana 

 and New Granada. 



Often planted in tropical countries as an ornament of gardens. 



2. Cordia Boissieri, A. DC. Anacahuita. 



Leaves oval to oblong-ovate, acute or rounded at the apex, rounded or subcordate 

 at the base, entire or obscurely crenulate-serrate, when they unfold covered like the 

 branches of the infloresence, both surfaces of the calyx and the young branchlets 

 with rusty or dark brown tomentum and short white usually matted hairs, thick and 

 firm, dark green, minutely rugose and more or less scabrous above, coated below with 

 thick soft pale or rufous tomentum, 4'-5' long, 3'-4' wide, with broad midribs and 

 conspicuous primary veins forked near the margins and connected by cross veinlets, 

 deciduous at the end of their first year; their petioles stout, tomentose, l'-l|' long. 

 Flowers opening from April to June, slightly fragrant, sessile or short-pedicellate, 

 in open terminal dichotomous cymes; calyx tubular or subcampanulate, conspicu- 

 ously many-ribbed, with 5 linear acute teeth, and about half as long as the tube of 



the white corolla, puberulous on the outer surface, marked in the throat with a large 

 light yellow spot, the lobes rounded, imbricated in the bud, and 2' across when fully 

 expanded; ovary glabrous, gradually narrowed into a slender 2-branched style. 

 Fruit ovate, 1' long, about f ' broad, pointed at the apex, lustrous, bright red-brown, 

 and inclosed entirely or partly by the thin fibrous now conspicuously rayed orange- 

 brown calyx, coated on the outer surface with thick short pale tomentum, and often 

 splitting nearly to the base; flesh thin, sweet, and pulpy, separating easily from the 

 ovate smooth light brown stone gradually narrowed from above the middle, faintly 

 reticulate-veined, and marked by 4 longitudinal lines and at the acuminate apex 

 by a deeply 4-lobed thin cap, thick-walled, hard and bony, deeply lobed at the base; 

 seeds ovate, acute, \' long, with a thin delicate pure white coat. 



A tree, occasionally 20-2o high, with a short often crooked trunk 6'-8' in diam- 

 eter, stout spreading branches forming a low round-topped head, and stout branch- 

 lets, becoming in their second year dark gray or brown, slightly puberulous, and 



