CORDIA WALLICHII, (Nat. order Boragineje.) 



CoRDIA. Linn, — GEN. CHAR. Calyx tubular or campanulate, 5 toothed or irregularly toothed or lobed. Corolla-tube cylindrical 

 or funnel-shaped, the limb 5 or sometimes 6 or more-lobed. Stamens inserted in the tube, anthers included or exserted. Orary entire, 4 celled, -with 

 1 pendulous or laterally attached ovule in each cell ; style terminal, twice forked. Fruit a drupe, the endoearp hard, with 4 cells or fewer by abortion. 

 Seeds without albumen; testa thin ; cotyledons longitudinally folded; radicle superior. Trees or shrubs, glabrous scabrous-pubescent or villous. Leaves 

 entire^or toothed. Flowers in cymes, sometimes contracted into heads, at first terminal, but often becoming lateral by the growth of the branch. Bracta 

 small or none. 



OoitDIA W ALLICHII. (G. Don.) A good sized tree, leaves from broad-ovate or orbicular to cordate often more or less 

 repand, rounded or slightly pointed at the apex, 4-5 inches each way, glabrous or subglabrous above (the veins sometimes slightly hairy) 

 densely woolly beneath, 3-5 nerved at the base, petioles 1-1J inches long, flowers polygamous about 6 lines in expansion in loose pedun. 

 culate terminal cymes or panicles, calyx ovate 5-toothed densely albo-villous towards the apex, closed over the corol in the bud, 

 hardened cup-shaped and irregularly toothed in fruit. Corol 5-lobed, lobes revolute, tube hairy within, anthers much exserted oblong 

 sagittate at the base, style twice forked as in the genus, ovules attached to the centre of the axis, drupe ovoid or globular the pulp 

 viscid. G. Don Gen. Syst. 4 p, 379- C. tomentosa, Wall, in Eoxb. Fl. Ind. (ed. Wall.) vol, 11, p. 339. 



This tree is tolerably common throughout our western forests and in Mysore and the Bombay Presidency ; technically it is hardly dis- 

 tinct from the common Cordia myxa, but the densely woolly leaves wed distingvsh it, The timber is serviceable and in use with the natives. 



Analysis. 



1. A flower^bud, calyx slightly 5-lobed densely albo-villous towards the apex. 



2. The same open, showing the young corolla. 



3. A full flower, male. 



4. Corol of the same opened to show insertion of the stamens, the tube hairy inside on its upper half. 



5. Calyx and abortive ovary of the male flower. 



6. Abortive ovary cut vertically, showing the ovules attached to the centre of the axis (they are imperfect and do not ripen.) 



7. The same cut transversely, showing 4 cells. 

 Figure A. — Cordia myxa. 



8. Hermathrodite or fertile flower, 



9. Calyx, ovary, style and stigmas. 



10. Corol opened. 



11. Ovary cut vertically, showing the ovules attached to centre of axis. 



12. Fruit, showing the irregularly toothed cup-like hardened calyx. 



N. B.— The tree of C. Wallichii from which the drawing and analysis were taken, had only male flowers, so 1 have given the 

 analysis of a fertile flower from a tree of C. myxa. 



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