338 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Cordia, 



Male Flowers on a different plant. Calyx and corol as in the 

 hermaphrodite, but more generally divided into four. — Filaments ge- 

 nerally four, as long as the corol. — Germ a spherical, abortive body, 

 "without style or stigma. 



Obs. In the early part of my botanical career, a very short des- 

 cription and drawing of the male plant were sent with my oi.her dis- 

 patches of the same nature, to the Honourable the Court of Directors 

 under the name Callicarpa alternifolia, Roxb. N. 165. 



9- C. angustifolia, R. 



leaves sub-opposite, lanceolate, scabrous. Panicles terminal. 

 Flowers tetrandrous. Style twice two-cleft. Nut four-celled. 



A native of Mysore, from thence Dr. Buchanan sent the seeds to 

 the botanic garden at Calcutta, in 1800, and in May 1S03, the young 

 trees were in blossom for the first time. 



Trunk short. Branches numerous, spreading in every direction, 

 •with their long, slender extremities, often drooping. Bark ash- 

 coloured and preity smooth. — Leaves sub-opposite, petioled, lan- 

 ceolate, generally entire, obtuse, scabious, particularly when diy ; 

 about four inches long, by one broad. — Petioles short, channelled. 

 . — Stipules none. — Panicles terminal, corymbiform. — Flowers numer- 

 ous, small, white.— Calyx cylindric ; mouth obscurely four-toothed. 

 —Corol. Tube longer than the calyx. Border of four linear, invo- 

 lute divisions.— Filaments four, inserted just below the divisions of 

 the border. — Style two-cleft, with two-cleft divisions — Drupe the 

 size of a large pea, round, smooth, yellow, when ripe the pulp is yel- 

 low, gelatinous, and pellucid. Nut four-celled, though seldom mor§ 

 than one seed comes to maturity, 



Obs. by N. W. 



This is Cordia reticulata, Roth. nov. spec. 124 ; et Syst. Veg. i«« 

 454.-N. W. 



