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CORDIA MYXA. 
beneath paler and very smooth as well as the young twigs. 
The flowers, rather conspicuous, are bright yellow, and 
formed into a terminal branching corymb. The calyx is 
campanulate, with a 5-cleft acute border, nearly smooth 
externally, and villous within. The tube of the corolla 
extends beyond the calyx, the border is 5-lobed, with 
obtuse, broadish segments ; the stamens 5, are linear, long 
and acute, situated above the orifice of the corolla. The 
drupe is about the size of a pea, and contains a nut with 
4 cells and 4 seeds. The style is bifid, and the stigmas 
capitate, flat, and emarginate. 
Plate CVII. 
A branch of the natural size. a. A transverse section of the nut showing 
the 4 seeds. 
The fruit of the Cordia Myxa or Assyrian Plum, which 
is of an agreeable taste, has been esteemed a valuable 
medicine in disorders of the chest and urinary passages, 
but is not now used officinally. The East Indians eat it 
macerated in salt and vinegar as a remedy for diarrhoea. 
An excellent glue also is made of the pulp, which is more 
viscid than that of the jujube. The West India species, 
Cordia collococca , or Clammy Cherry, has an edible fruit 
from which also a glue has been made, and hence also the 
specific name. 
