FLORIDA CORDIA. 
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says, that a small piece of the wood put on a pan of lighted 
coals, will perfume a whole house. From the juice of the 
leaves, mixed with that of a species of fig, is prepared the 
fine red colour with which the natives of Tahiti dye their 
tapas or cloth. The drupes are said to be eatable, and also 
to afford an excellent glue when they are ripe. A syrup of 
the fruit is, in the East, reputed as a remedy for the same 
diseases as that of the Cordia Myxa. 
Plate CVI. 
A branch of the natural size. 
FLORIDA CORDIA. 
CORDIA Floridana, foliis obbngis obovatis jparvulis integris scaberri - 
mis subtus glabris , corymbis terminalibus dichotomis, stylis bifidis. 
This species, which does not appear to be described, 
was found at Key West in East Florida, by our friend Dr. 
Blodgett, who remarks, that it becomes a tree of 20 feet 
elevation, and if at all like the C. gerascanthus or Spanish 
Elm of Jamaica, is entitled to consideration as an excellent 
timber. 
The twigs in our plant are slender and diverging, 
covered with a brownish-gray, smooth bark. The leaves 
appear to be thick and rigid as in evergreens, an inch to 
an inch and a half long by a half to three-quarters of an 
inch wide, they are oblong or obovate, obtuse, and often 
rounded above, narrowed below into a minute petiole, very 
scabrous on the upper surface, dark-green and shining, 
