S§2 S'ENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Cordidti 



genus, and that the Arabic and Persian names Sepsstan and Pjstan, 

 are applicable to both sorts. 



It might be well to give the trivial or specific apellation Sepistana 

 to this broad-leaved tree, which for the present I have called latifo. 

 Via ; and the scarlet-flowered west India tree, now called Sebestena, 

 1 would term coccinea. Novella nigra, Humph, amb. 2. p. 226- 

 t. 75, is no doubt a distinct species, which I have seen and examine 

 ed, and call Cordia campanulata. 



% C. Myxa, JVilld, i. 1072. 



Polygamous. Leaves ova), repand. Panicles terminal, and Ia= 

 teral. 



Vidi-marum, Rheed. mal. 4. t. 57. 



Sebestena officinalis, Gaert. sem. 1. p. 363. t. 76. 



Sung. "W^F^TT'iOs Bhookwmboodarwka, ^^^^X"c(«(v?, Kshoo- 

 drwshleshmatwka, ^ir^r:, Bhoosheloo, ^raftrf^^s, Lwghoopzch- 

 hi\a, ^SfirtcTS, L?/ghcosheeta, B^M\<^ 3 Sookshmwphwla, ^^ 

 ^"iT*> Lifghoobhoot-wdroomtt. 



iBe®g; Bohooari. 



Hind. Lusora, or Lesoora. 



Teling. Nekra. 



The dried fruit of this tree is the Sebestena of the materia mediea* 



It is a pretty large, but low tree, growing in most part of the Cir- 

 cars but chiefly in gardens, hedges, Sec near villages. Flowers 

 about the end of the temperate, (or eold) season, and the fruit is ripe 

 in May and June. 



Trunk generally erooked, frorii eight to twelve feet high, and as 

 thick or thicker than a man's body. Bark grey, cracked in various 

 directions. Branches numerous, spreading, and bent in every possi- 

 ble direction, forming a dense shady head. — Leaves scattered, pe» 

 tioled, ovaie, oval, or obovate, exterior half slightly scalloped, or 

 toothed, smooth above, below a little scabrous when old ; from two 



