Cordia. pentandria monogynia. 837 



7. C rnuluccana, R. 



Leaves long-petioled, ovate-cordate, obtuse, entire, smooth. Pa- 

 nicles axillary and terminal, shorter than the leaves; calyx gibbous, 

 inside hairy. Style twice two-cleft. Drupe pointed, and nearly 

 hid in the calyx ; nut four-celled. 



A native of the Moluccas. This species is often tetrandrous. 

 The filaments are short, and very hairy ; as is also a rim round the 

 mouth of the gibbous tube of the corol, where they are inserted. 



8. C. polygama, R. 



Polygamous. Leaves ovate-cordate, entire, scabrous. Panicle 

 terminal. Male generally tetrandrous, hermaphrodite often pentau- 

 drous. 



A tree, a native of the mountains of Coromandel. Flowers about 

 the month of May and the seeds ripen in August. 



Trunk tolerably straight, but short. Bark pretty smooth, of a dark 

 olive colour. Branches spreading ; young shoots round and scabrous. 

 — Leaves alternate, petioled, from ovate to cordate, entire, or slightly 

 scallop-toothed ; when young soft and villous, when old scabrous, 



from one to six inches long, and about three-fourths of that broad 



Stipules none. — Panicles terminal, in the male more divided, pube- 

 scent. Flozcers small, white. 



Hermaphrodite Flowers on a separate tree. — Calyx nar- 

 row-campanulate ; mouth irregularly four- or five-toothed, villous on 

 the outside. — Corol funnel-shaped. Border four- or five-cleft ; divi- 

 sions linear, revolute. — Filaments four, or five, shorter than the seg* 

 ments of the border of the corol. Anthers incumbent. — Germ su- 

 perior, ovate, four-celled, with one ovulum in each, attached to the 

 axis. Style twice two-cleft. Stigma rather small, but rounded.^. 

 Drupe oval, the size of a black currant, smooth, when ripe yellow. 

 pulp mucilaginous, as in the officinal fruit of C. myxa, one-celled. 

 AW very hard, ovate, longitudinally perforated through the centre, 

 four-celled. — Seed solitary, ovate, &c. &c. almost exactly as in Sebes* 

 Una officinalis, Gatrt, sem. 1, p. 364. t. 76. p, 1, 



