Cordia.] BORAGINE A. 413 
604. Cordia Linn. 
rees or shrubs, sometimes subscandent; leaves alternate, 
rarely subopposite, petioled. Flowers polygamous, in dichotomous 
corymbs or clusters, hermaphrodite corymbs much fewer-flowered 
than the male inflorescence; bracts 0. Sepals connate in a 
corolla; lobes white or orange, spreading or recurved. Stamens 
4-8, evenly or unevenly adnate to corolla-tube; filaments often 
hirsute at base; anthers oblong or linear, cet “or hastate, 
shortly exserted. Carpels connate in a 4-ce ovary; ovules in 
each cell solitary; style terminal, simple 3 talon, long, 2-partite, 
the branches again 2-partite, linear or epee abi Fruit an 
Ovoid or ellipsoid drupe, with a bony, ed putamen, cane 
only 1 cell with a fertile seed. Seeds pra ; albumen 0. 
Corolla small, white ; tube hardly longer than calyx :— 
Leaves scabrous above with white — calyx tomentose; fruit size 
of a cherry ; leaves beneath glabrescen wi 
Leaves above smooth or rugose, not sabres — 
Leaves beneath densely tomentose 
Leaves white-dotted above; ea densely tomentose ; ~ gine 
a@ pea. eles 
Leaves hii white-dotted above ; fruit size of a cherry:— 
Leaves rugose, impressed above; calyx densely are 
obliqua var. Wallichii. 
Leaves beneath dink ent or puberulous when — but no 
densely tomentose, siastullead or glabrous when matur 
Leaves white-dotted above; calyx pubescent; fruit size = a pea 
grandis. 
Leaves not white-dotted above; fruit size of a cherry; calyx 
glabrous or slightly pubescen 
er shoots silver-grey Baie 
g shoots brown tawny-pubescent ...... “parr var. boil 
Corolla ies orange ; tube much longer than calyx.. sees Sebestena, 
1295, Corpta monorca Roxb.; F. 1. i, 592; F. B. I. iv. 187, 
Orissa. 
A small tree, 
