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ROUGH-LEAVED CORDIA. 
Coedia folvis amplioribus hirtis; tubo floris subcequali. Brown, Ja- 
maic. p. 202. 
Sebestena scabra, fore miniato crispa. Dillen, Hort. Eltham, p. 341, 
tab. 255, f. 331. 
Caryopliyllus spurius inodorus, folio subrotundo scabro, fore racemoso 
hexapetaloide coccineo. Sloane, Jam. 136. Hist. vol. 2, p. 20, tab. 
164. Raii, Suppl. p. 86. Catesby, Carol, vol. 2, p. 91, t. 91. 
Novella nigra. Rumph. Amboina, vol. 2, p. 226, t. 75. Burm. Ind. 
p. 59. 
This fine ornamental species is a native of the East and 
West Indies, and has recently been observed on Key 
West in East Florida, by our friend Dr. Blodgett. It 
becomes a tree about the size of an ordinary apple tree, 
with a spreading dark-green summit, and affords, in the 
tropical regions it inhabits, a most agreeable shade. Bruce 
remarks that in Abyssinia and in other parts of Africa, this 
or a nearly allied species is held sacred, and commonly 
planted before the houses of the inhabitants. Without 
being venerated, it is in the Sandwich islands a favourite 
tree of common occurrence in the vicinity of the habita- 
tions, and admired for the beauty of its flowers. 
The leaves are large, ovate-oblong, and scabrous to the 
touch, nearly entire when fully expanded. The flowers 
are deep yellow or orange, in large terminal corymbose 
racemes, in form very much resembling those of the Marvel 
of Peru, ( Mirabilis ), being funnel-shaped, with the border 
of 5 or 6 oval, obtuse, waved and crenulated divisions. 
The stamens are 5 ; and the stigmas are twice bifid. The 
fruit is a round or pyriform drupe containing a deeply fur- 
rowed nut. 
According to Catesby, the wood of this species is of a 
dark-brown approaching to black, very ponderous, and 
containing much gum, in smell and appearance resembling 
that of Aloes, and it is by the inhabitants of the Bahama 
islands, where it grows, called Lignum Aloes. Brown 
