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Stigma with linear-spathulate branches. Fruit very bony, pyramidal, 
its apex acute, with 4 bold angles, the spaces between the angles often 
with large tubercles, 1 in. long and as much in breadth from angle to 
angle, usually with 1 or more seeds ; entirely enveloped in the much- 
inflated glabrous accrescent apiculate calyx. Wall. Cat. 9063 ; DC. 
Prod. IX. 477 ; Seem. PI. Yiti, t. 34 ; Benth. PI. Austral. IV. 385 ; 
Ivurz Por. PI. Burrn. II. 209 ; Clarke in Hook. fil. PL Br. Ind. IV. 140 ; 
Miq. PL Ind. Bat. II. 914. C. orientalis, R. Br. Prod. 498. C. cam- 
panulata, Roxb. Pl. Ind., ed. Carey & Wall. II. 336. C. Bumphii, 
Blume Bijdr. 843. G. hexandra, Roem. & Schult. Syst. IV. 799. 
Rumph. Herb. Amb. II. t. 75. 
Perak : Scortacliini 1084. Dindings : Curtis 3447 . Kedah -.Ridley 
5526. Pahang : Ridley 2158. — Distrib. British India, Malay Archi- 
pelago, Australia, Sandwich Islands. Widely cultivated in other places. 
2. Cordia Myxa, Linn. Sp. Pl. 190 (1753). A tree, 40 to 50 feet 
high ; young branches thinner than a goose-quill, glabrous. Leaves thinly 
coriaceous ; broadly ovate, apex sub-acute or obtuse, the base slightly 
cordate ; upper surface when dry dark brown, glabrous, faintly reticu- 
late ; the lower paler brown, distinctly and minutely reticulate, the 
transverse veins very prominent, glabrous except for some pubescence 
on the midrib and 5 or 6 pairs of curved ascending main-nerves ; length 
3 to 3'75 in., breadth 2 to 2'75 in. ; petioles '75 to 1'25 in. Cymes 
trichotomous, shorter than the leaves, terminal. Male and female 
flowers often in the same tree, mostly 5-merous. Calyx campanulate, 
more than - 25 in. long, glabrous, smooth outside, silky inside. Corolla 
with its tube included in the calyx, the lobes projecting and '15 in. 
long, reflexed ; style in the 2 flowers short, 4-cleft, absent in the 
S . Fruit ellipsoid, with acute apex and rounded base, compressed, 
with 3 or 4 angles (one or more of them indistinct), '75 in. long and 
■4 in. broad, 2- or more-seeded ; the persistent accrescent calyx 
leathery with strong vertical reticulations, widely campanulate, its 
mouth with shallow irregular crenations, length -25 in., width '4 to 
■5 in. DC. Prod. IX. 479 ; Delile PL -®gypt. t. 19, fig. 1 ; Roxb. PL 
Ind., ed. Carey & Wall., II. 232; Wall. Cat. 889; Wight 111. t. 169; 
Benth. FI. Austral. IV. 386 ; Bedd. Pl. Sylv. t. 245, fig. A ; Brandis 
Por. FI. 336 (in part); Kurz Por. PL Burm. II. 208; Boiss. FI. Or. IV. 
124; Miq. PL Ind. Bat. II. 915; Clarke in Hook. fil. FI. Br. Ind. IV. 
136 ; Trimen FI. Ceyl. III. 193 ; Cooke FI. Bomb. II. 199 ; Pram Beng. 
Plants 714. C. Myxa, var. h. minor only, Thw. Enum. PL Zeyl. 214. 
C. indica, Lamk Diet. VII. 49 ; DC. Prod. IX. 500. C. officinalis and 
C. africana, Lamk 111. II. 420, and t. 96, fig. 3. C. Sesbestena, Forsk. 
FI. Aeg.-Arab. LXIII. C. paniculata , Roth Nov. Spec. 124; DC. Prod. 
