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LXXXIV. BORAGINEiE. 
Suktkihk II. Eritrichieze. —Nuts attached to a convex or conical carpophore, near in the 
middle or lower half of the nuts which are not depressed at the base bvt arc produced at the apex 
above the scar, free round the base of the style. 
"Scar in the basal half of the nut. 
iiacemes ebracteate. Nuts 4 10. Ehituichiom. 
Racemes bracteate. Nuts 2. 1-seeded . ‘ 11. Rochklia. 
Subtriiik III. Iiithospermeae . — Nuts on a flat or nearly Hat receptacle ; scar basal, bat 
little hollowed out, without a prominent margin . 
* Racemes ebracteate Corolla-lobes distinct . 
Corolla-tube short. Nuts ovoid-oblong 12. Myosotis. 
* * Racemes bracteate. Corolla-lobes distinct. 
Corolla-throat naked or with small scales 13 . Lithosi’shmum 
1. CORDIA, Linn. 
(After E. Cordus.) 
Calyx tubular or campanulate, 5-tootlied or irregularly toothed or lobed. 
Corolla-tube cylindrical or funnel-shaped, the limb 5 or sometimes 6 or more 
lobed. Stamens inserted in the tube ; anthers included or exserted. Ovary 
entire, 4-celled, with 1 pendulous ovule in each cell; style terminal, twice 
forked. Fruit a drupe, the endocarp hard, with 4 cells or fewer by abortion. 
Seeds without albumen ; testa thin ; cotyledons longitudinally folded ; radicle 
superior. — Trees or shrubs, glabrous scabrous-pubescent or villous. Leaves 
entire or toothed. Flowers in cymes, sometimes contracted into heads, at first 
terminal, but often becoming lateral by the growth of the branch. Bracts 
small or none. 
A considerable genus, spread over the tropical regions ot both the New and the Old World. 
Si ct. I. Kyza . — Corolla small, white tube not exceeding the calyx. 
Drupe sealed on the open calyx. 
Usually villous. Calyx cylindrical, strongly-ribbed 1 C. aspero. 
Glabrous or scrabrous. Calyx campanulate, smooth 2. C.Myxu. 
Si ct. II. Sebesten. -Corolla larger, orange, tube exceeding the calyx. 
Drupe enveloped in the enlarged calyx. Calyx tubular. Corolla broadly 
tunnel-shaped . 3. C. subcurdata. 
1. C. aspera (rough), Font. t'rod. 18; Beuth. FI. Austr. iv. 386. A 
tree of 20 to 30ft., the young shoots rusty-pubescent or villous. Leaves 
petiolate, ovate, acuminate with the point sometimes much elongated, irregularly 
toothed or rarely entire, membranous, sprinkled above with short scattered hairs, 
the veins underneath scabrous pubescent or hirsute, 3 to Gin. long in some 
specimens, twice as large in others. Flowers small, in shortly pedunculate, 
rather dense cymes. Calyx scarcely above 2 lines long, tubular, hirsute, with 
10 or 12 prominent ribs and 5 or 6 small linear teeth. Corolla-tube cylindrical, 
scarcely so long as the calyx ; lobes ovate, undulate and crisped, much shorter 
than the tube. Stamens scarcely exserted ; anthers small. Style forked, with 
spathulate shortly 2-iobed branches. Drupe whitish, ovoid-pyramidal, not 
exceeding iin. and sometimes much smaller, resting on the broad open calyx ; 
putamen hard, very rugose, ripening usually on a single seed. — DC. Prod. ix. 
409 ; Seem. FI. Vit. 109 t. 35 ; F. v. M. Fragm. vi. 114. 
Hab.: Rockingham Bay, Dallacliy, and other tropical localities. 
The species is also in the islands of the South Pacific. 
Wood of a light colour, light and soft. — Bailey's Cat. Ql. li’oods No. 280a. 
Yar. inciso-dentata. Leaves (all young in the specimens seen) irregularly and deeply toothed, 
almost' lobed. hut the teeth perhaps not so prominent in the adult state. — C. laeerata, F. v. M 
Fragm. v. 193 — Cape York, Daniel. 
