825 



branchletB usually beset with bristles, and at length with whitish 

 scales, the indurated bases of the hairs : branches terete or ir- 

 regularly angled: roots, especially of the Boragineae, often tinged, 

 brownish-red with a peculiar resin-like colouring matter, soluble 

 in water, spirits or oil : leaves alternate, simple, exstipulate, 

 usually rough or variously bristly : racemes or spikes (rarely 

 corymbs) variously disposed, often secund mi ciroinate before 

 evolution. 



TRIBE I. CORDIE^. 



Ovary 4-celled, undivided : style terminal, dichotomous, di- 

 vided at the top into four branchlets, rarely none : fruit fleshy- 

 drupaceous, indehiscent, cells 4, many, often abortive : coty-> 

 ledons thick, somewhat fleshy, folded lengthwise : albumea 

 none. — Trees or shrubs : flowers arranged in a raceme, spike, 

 corymb or panicle : pulp of the fruit mucilaginous, 



GENUS I. CORDIA. 

 Pentandria Monog^nSa. Sex. Syst.- 



D.eriv. In hoiior of B. Cordus, a Qermau Botanist of the 16th 

 century. 



Gen. Ghab. Calyx tubular, obovate or campanulate, 4-5-tooth- 

 ed, rarely 3 or 6-8-toothed : corolla fiinnel or cap-shaped, limb 

 4-5-partite, rarely 6-12-lobed : stamens as many as the lobes, 

 inserted on the tube : style twice 2-cleft, often exserted : drupo 

 ovate or globose, pulpy, often surrounded by the persistent calyx, 

 ovary 4-oelled, or 1-3-celled by abortion, often flowering, 1^3- 

 celled, cells l-seeded.---Trees or shrubs : leaves alternate, or very 

 rarely sub-opposite, petioled, various iu shape, q^uite entire or 

 toothed : flowers sometimes polygamous or monoicoos by abortion : 

 corolla nearly always, white. 



(1) C. suBcoRDATA. {Lam.) 



Ideni. Lam. 111. No. 1899.— I^ec. prod. IX. p. 477. 



Syn. C. orientalis, R. Br. — 0. campanulata, Roxh. Ind. fior. 

 \l. p. 336. — C. Rumphii, Blume. — C. hexandra et orientalis, 

 Roem. S( SchuU. 



E.ngrav. Ruraph, Amb. II, t. 7^. 



