ginece-, or rarely solitary. The fruit is usu- 

 ally more or less drupaceous. There are 

 above 150 species, natives of the tropical or 

 subtropical regions both of the New and 

 the Old World, and have been distributed 

 into about twelve genera, most of which 

 have, however, been since reduced to Cor- 

 dia itself. 



CORDICEPS. A fine genus of Spha?riace- 

 ous Fungi distinguished by its fleshy tex- 

 ture, vertical stipitate stroma and filiform 

 articulate spores, which separate at the 

 articulations. The species are the most 

 remarkable amongst the very important 

 group to which they belong. A few grow 

 upon dead leaves, decaying branches, or 

 ergoted grains, the rest upon pupae or 

 larvas of insects. The New Zealand C. 

 Robertsii occurs on the caterpillar of a 

 species of Hepialus, and is frequently 

 brought home as an object of curiosity. 

 "We have two or three fine species in this 

 country, of which C. militaris is remarkable 

 for its brilliant scarlet hue. C. alutacea, 

 ■which is of a pale tan, grows upon pine 

 leaves, and a form of it, or distinct species, 

 on Ulex europceus. There is no doubt 

 that, in many cases, the fungus-bearing 

 insects are attacked during their lifetime ; 

 and there is one species of Cordiceps which 

 occurs on wasps in the "West Indies, which 

 is considerably developed before the insect 

 dies. The wasps so attacked are known 

 by the name of Guiipes vegetantes. The 

 peculiarities of the species which grow on 

 ergot will be noticed under that head. C. 

 sinensis is supposed by the Chinese to have 

 healing properties, and is sold as a drug in 

 little bundles. [M. J. B.] 



CORDIFORM. "When a solid has the 

 form of cordate. 



CORDLEAFS. A name given by Lindley 

 to the group of restiaceous plants. 



CORDON DE CARDINAL. (Fr.) Poly- 

 gonum orientate. 



CORDYLANTHUS. A genus of Homa- 

 linacece from Java. It is allied to Black- 

 wellia, but with an elongate club-shaped 

 perianth tube, adhering to the ovary, the 

 limb ten or twelve-par ted, and the segments 

 in two rows, the inner longer and petaloid ; 

 leaves alternate, shortly-stalked, leathery, 

 elliptical, toothed; flowers white, race- 

 mose, axillary; peduncles one to three- 

 flowered ; stamens fifteen or twelve ; styles 

 three to five ; ovary one-celled. [J. T. S.] 



CORDYLINE. A genus of erect-stemmed 

 shrubby palm-like Liliacece, bearing spread- 

 ing and very ornamental heads of narrow 

 elongate striated leaves, and terminal 

 panicles of numerous small flowers. The 

 perianth is deciduous, tubulosely bell- 

 shaped, with a six-cleft or six-parted spread- 

 ing limb of linear segments, inserted in 

 two rows ; and there are six stamens with 

 linear filaments inserted in the mouth of 

 the tube. The ovary is three-celled with 

 one ovule in each cell; and the style is 

 filiform with a capitate three-lobed stigma. 

 The fruit is a globose three-celled berry, 



often by abortion one or two-seeded. 

 The species are found in tropical Africa, 

 in Madagascar, and the Mascarene Islands, 

 and in the Malayan Archipelago. The typi- 

 cal species, C. reflexa, a native of the Mauri- 

 tius, St. Helena, and Madagascar, has a 

 naked simple stem, bearing a crowded 

 head of numerous ensiform striated leaves, 

 six or seven inches long, and scarcely half 

 an inch wide. The flowers are fragrant, 

 numerous, yellowish green, in a branched 

 terminal raceme. C. fragrans, a "West 

 African species, has a tall stem with a 

 terminal head of lanceolate leaves, two 

 to three feet long, and two to three inches 

 broad, and divaricately-branched panicles 

 of fragrant white flowers, collected into 

 dense umbellate heads. C. Sieboldii is a 

 compact growing species with oblong 

 leaves, four to six inches long, deep green, 

 ornamentally blotched with paler green, 

 and producing short terminal panicles of 

 greenish-white flowers. Some very orna- 

 mental species formerly included in C'ordy- 

 line, are now referred to the genera Cala- 

 dracon and Draccenopsis ; and others less 

 striking in their appearance to Charl- 

 icoodia. [T. M.] 



CORDTLOBLASTE. The name of a 

 Javanese tree doubtfully referred to 

 Meliacece. It has elliptic entire pointed 

 leaves ; flowers in whorls of five ; stamens 

 united into a tube, the upper edge of which 

 has six anthers on it and ten or twelve 

 teeth, while numerous other anthers are 

 attached to the inner surface of the tube 

 of the stamens ; style simple ; ovary seated 

 on a fleshy disc, which is adherent to the 

 base of the calyx, with one many-seeded 

 compartment. [M. T. M.] 



CORDYLOGYNE. A genus of Asclepia- 

 dacece, consisting of a single herbaceous 

 plant growing at a height of 4,000 feet on 

 the mountains of Southern Africa. The 

 plant has many erect slender stems about 

 a foot high, long linear leaves, and pale 

 green flowers clustered in many-flowered 

 long peduncles. The calyx consists of five 

 small hairy sepals ; the corolla is five- 

 parted, the divisions erect, and at length 

 spreading ; the staminal crown consists of 

 five oblong leaves with angular processes 

 on their lateral margins ; the anthers are 

 terminated by a triangular opaque apex, 

 adpressed to the base of the oblong fleshy 

 stigma ; the pollen masses are attached by 

 slender-kneed processes to a small simple 

 corpuscle ; the follicle is solitary, slender, 

 and erect, with comose seed. [W. C] 



COREMA, Portugal Crakeberry. An 

 erect much-branched low shrub of rigid 

 habit, closely allied to JEmpetrum, from 

 which it is distinguished by having no 

 scales at the base of its calyx, and by its 

 white three-seeded globose berries. The 

 branches are slightly downy; the leaves 

 obtuse, small, and narrow, with revolute 

 edges, and sprinkled with resinous dots ; 

 flowers white, growing in terminal groups 

 very like those of Empetrum, but larger. 

 It is a native of Portugal and other coun- 



