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ORDER 98. CORDIACE. Don's. syst. 4. p. 374. 
494, CORDIA.L. Pentandria Monogynia. 
Named by Plumier, in honor of Cordius, a German Botanist. Lam, ¢. 96; 
Gaert. ¢. 76. 
1015. C. Rumpuil. Don’s. syst. 4. p. 374. C. subcordata? Don’s. syst. 4. 
p. 374. C. campanulata. Rox. Flora. |. p. 593, Novella nigra. Rumph. 
Amb. 2, ¢. 75. Wanzey? Bruce’s Travels. 7, t. 17. 
A tree; leaves ovate oblong, acuminate.—F lowers yellow, or of a reddish 
orange colour, somewhat resembling those of the Indian Cress; (Tropaeolum 
Minus.) hexandrous.—One tree formerly grew in the circle on Bombay green; 
probably brought from some part of the Concan, 
1016. C. Latirotia. Don’s. syst. 4. p. 378. Rox. Flora. Ind. 2. p. 230° 
Wallich’s Ed, 
Broad-leaved Sepistan.—Arab and Pers. Sepistan and Pistan—Guz.— 
Burgoondand Vurgoond.—Mah.— Bhokur —Hind.— Bura—Leesura—Beng— 
Buhu rasi—Sans—Buhorracake. (Mr. Vaupell. ) 
_ A tree from 12 to 25 feet high;—leaves roundish cordate, entire, repand, 
5 nerved; smooth above, scabrous beneath; flowers in terminal and lateral 
panicles, polygamous, numerous, small white.—Drupe about an inch in 
diameter, yellow when ripe, pulp soft, clammy, eaten by the natives.—Dr. 
Wallich proposes, as previously so named by. Dr. Roxburgh, to give this 
species the specific name of C. sepistana, and the West Indian species 
now called Sebestena. C. coccinea, Wallich in Rox. Flora. Ind. 2. p. 232. 
Common throughout Guzerat, where itis called Burgoond; the young ten- 
der fruit is pickled; also eaten as a vegetable by the natives, (Mr. Vaupell.) 
1017. C.Myxa. Don’s syst. 4. p. 379. Rox. Flora. 1. p. 599. Vida marum. 
Rheed. Mal. 4. ¢. 47. Gaert. Fruct. 1, ¢. 76. Pluk. Alm. ¢. 217. f. 3. Deli- 
le’s Flora. Aegypt. ¢. 19. f. 1 and 2. Cornus sanguinea, Forskol. Ainslie. 
Mat. Ind. 2, p, 466. 
Bhokur.—A common tree in Bombiy.—On the Ghauts and about villages, 
throughout the Concan.—It a good deal resembles the English Alder; ( Alnus 
glutinosa,) flowers polygamous; white, in terminal and lateral panicles;—ap- 
pear in March and April.—The natives pickle and eat the fruit—It abounds 
in a transparent glutinous juice—Dried it is the Sebestenu of the Materia 
Medica. 
In Otaheite the juice of the leaves is used in dyeing. 
1018. C. Monorca. Don’s. syst. 4. p. 379. Rox. Flora. Ind. 1. p. 592, 
Rox. Cor. 1. ¢. 58. 
A shrub of no beauty, with ovate, toothed, scabrous leaves; flowers small 
white.—In gardens Bombay, and probably wildin the Concans. 
1019. C, AnGusTtFoLIA. Don’s. syst. 4. p. 379. Rox, Flora. dak 1. p,595. 
r~C, reticulata. Roth. Nov. Spec. 124. 
Goond, or Goondnee.—A tree from 30 to 40 feet high; leaves sao peeene. 
lanceolate, scabrous; branches slender drooping; flowers in terminal corym- 
< biform panicles; small, white, tetrandrous; fr uit size of a pea; smooth, yellow, 
= 3 ~ —Bombay.-—about Villages in the Deccan and Guzerat. 
The wood is very tongh,and useful for making carriage poles &c. (Dr. 
™ Gibson.) 
1020. C g 
A new species discovered hy Mr. Law at Duddi, 0 on the Gutpurba, 1838. 
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A middle sized tree: in gardens at Wye. 
495. EHRETIA. ut. Pentandria Monogynia. 
Named by Linnaeus, in honor of a French Botanist. Lam. t, 96, 
