278 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
Styles short, shortly 2-lobed ; pyrenes two 2-seedetl ; herbs 
or shrubs 
Styles elongated, dilated at the apex ; pyrenes four 1-seeded, 
much resembling nutlets ; herbs 
Styles elongated, not dilated or annular at the apex, more or 
less bi-partite : — 
Styles 2-fid at the apex ; pyrenes two 2-seeded, or four 
1-seeded ; trees or shrubs 
Styles more or less separate, distinct at base and apex, 
united but easily separable in the middle ; pyrenes four 
1-seeded, much resembling nutlets ; prostrate herbs 
2. Tournefortia. 
3. Heliotropiusi. 
4. Ehretia. 
5. CoLDENIA. 
1. Coedia, Linn. 
Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, rarely sub-opposite, petiolate. 
Flowers in dichotomous cymes with scorpioid branches, or corymbose 
or in clusters, ebracteate, polygamous, the £ fewer than the $ . Calyx 
tubular or campanulate, usually with short and often irregular teeth, 
accrescent in fruit. Corolla funnel- or salver-shaped or campanulate ; 
the lobes of the limb 4 to 8, spreading or recurved, white or orange. 
Stamens as many as the lobes; anthers sagittate or hastate, shortly 
exserted; filaments often hairy near the base. Ovary 4-celled, gla- 
brous ; style terminal, long, bi-partite, the branches again bifid, linear 
or sub-spathulate, cells of ovary 1-ovuled. Fruit ovoid or ellipsoid, 
surrounded by the enlarged calyx ; the putamen bony, with 1 to 4 cells, 
but one only with a fertile seed. Seed exalbuminous, the cotyledons 
large and fleshy or thin but always plicate. — Distkib. About 280' 
species, all tropical. 
Flowers about 1-5 in. long . . . . . . .. 1. C. subcordata. 
Flowers less than -5 in. long : — 
Leaves broadly ovate, sub-acute or obtuse, the base often cordate 2. C. Myxa. 
Leaves ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, the base cuneate . . 3. C. Griffithii. 
1. Coedia subcordata, Lamk 111. 1899 (1792). A small tree ; young 
branches as thick as a goose-quill, glabrous, pale brown when dry. 
Leaves membranous ; broadly ovate or ovate-rotund, the apex acute, the 
base broadly rounded or sub-cordate ; both surfaces brown when dry, 
the lower paler, harshly and minutely reticulate ; main-nerves 4 or 5 
pairs, faint on both surfaces when dry; length 3 -5 to 65 in., breadth 
2'5 to 4 in. ; petiole 1'25 to 2 in. Corymbs lateral, few-flowered, 
shorter than the leaves, glaberulous ; pedicels -25 in. long. Calyx 
cylindric, slightly widening towards the mouth, -4 in. long and nearly 
■2 in. wide at the middle, glabrous ; the limb with 3 broad triangular 
teeth. Corolla about l - 3 in. long, orange or reddish, funnel-shaped ; 
lobes about 6, broad, spreading, as long as the tube. Stamens 6. 
