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erecl, fpreatiing, cut into five (four or fix)’ obtufe divi- 
fions. Stamina: filaments five, Tubulate ; antlierae ob¬ 
long, length of the tube. P-iltillum: germ roundifh, 
acuminate; ilyle fimple, length of, the ftarn<?ns, bifid at 
top; diviiions bifid; ftigmas obtufe. Pericarpium:. drupe 
globofe, acuminate, growing to the calyx. Seed : nut 
tuyrotved^four-celled.— EJfentialCharacter. Corolla funnel- 
form ; ftyle dichotomous ; drupe with two-celled nuts. . 
Species, i. Cordia myxa, fmooth-leaved cordia, febef- 
ten, or Afl'yrian plum: leaves'*ovate, fmooth an.the up¬ 
per furface ; corymbs lateral; calyxes ten-ftriated. Leaves 
like thofe of the alder, ferrate-angular, fcabrous under¬ 
neath, three inches long., opposite, fiat, entire, obtufe, 
on a round petiole, liaLf an inch in length. Fruit infe¬ 
rior, red, nearly an inch in diameter. The timber of this 
tree is tough and folid; it is ufed for procuring fire by 
friction; the leaves bruifed with - thofe of datura metel 
are applied to the forehead in the head-ach : a glue is pre¬ 
pared from the fruits, which are all'o eaten by children. 
Native of Arabia and the E a ft Indies; cultivated in 1640. 
Mr. Miller fays it was very rare in this country till the 
year 1762, when the Danifii travellers lent fome of the 
fruit from Egypt, and fome plants were railed in the 
Chelfea garden. 
2. Cordia fpinefeens, or prickly cordia: leaves ovate, 
acute, ferrate, fcabrous; petioles fub-fpinefeent. Native 
of the Eaft Indies. 
3. Cordia febeftena, or rough-leaved cordia : leaves 
oblong-ovate, re pan d, fcabrous. Stems feveral, llirubby, 
eight or nine feet high, having towards the top rough 
alternate leaves on lhort p tioles, of a deep green on 
their upper fide ; flowers terminating, in large ■ cluiteirs 
upon branching peduncles, fu(taming one,' two, or three, 
flowers; corolla large, with a dong tube, fpreading open 
at top, and there divided into five obtufe fegments; it 
is of a beautiful leaflet, and makes a, fine appearance. A 
fmall piece of the w'ood put on a pan of lighted coals, 
will perfume a whole houfe with a mo/t agreeable fmell. 
It is adorned, fays Browne, with large bunches of fine 
fcarlet flowers, the mod beautiful and agreeable of any 
I have yet obferved in America. Thefe come, out at the 
tops of the branches fifteen or twenty together, the edge 
is fringed, but the furface finuous and curled; the colour 
at firfl: is a high vermilion, becoming fcarlet, and at length 
.purplifh ; they have no feent. The fruit is in the form 
.of an inverted pear.. Native of both Indies, and the 
Society Ifles. From the juice of the leaves, with that 
.of the fruit of a fpecies of fig, is prepared the fine red 
colour with which they dye their clothes in Otaheite. 
The fig however will produce the colour with fhe leaves 
of feveral other plants. Cultivated in 1728, in Dr. She- 
rard’s.garden.at EltlVam. 
4. Cordia'gerafcanthus : leaves lanceolate-ovate, fca¬ 
brous; panicle terminating; calyxes ten-ftriated. This 
tree rifes to a conliderable height, but feldom exceeds 
twenty or thirty inches in diameter. It is pretty much 
branched towards the top, and furnifhed with oblong 
nervous leaves. The flowers have no feent, are very 
white, and grow in great numbers at the extremities of 
the branches ; as the germ grows larger, they fade, and 
turn of a dark or dirty brown colour, continuing upon 
the tree until the whole fruit, which felflom grows to a 
perfect ftate, falls off. It isefteemed one of the belt 
timber-trees in Jamaica, of which it is a native. The wood 
is of a.dark brown colour, and gently ftriped ; it is tough 
and elafiic, of a.fine grain, and eafily worked. They call 
it Spanifli elm, or .prince-wood. It is f found in other 
iflands; of the Well Indies; and is called by the French, 
b.ois ck chyprL 
5. Cordia macrophylla, or broad-leaved cordia: leaves 
.ovate, villofe, a foot and a half in length. This tree 
.alio rifes to a copfiderable height, (fifty feet,) but is iel- 
.dom above twelve or fixteen inches in diameter, fhooting 
generally by a flraight trunk. The leaves are very large 
4iud rough. The berries.,arb the lize of fmall cherries. 
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The heart of the tree is of a yellovvifli colour, and pretty- 
good timber. It is called in Jamaica, the broad-leaved 
cherry-tree. 
6. Cordia collococca, or long-leaved cordia: leaves 
cordate-ovate, quite entire; flowers corymbed; calyxes 
tomemofe within. This tree feldom rifes above fourteen 
or fix teen feet, (Sloane fays fifty feet,) and fpreads pretty 
much at top.' The leaves are rugged, obliquely veined, 
.and difpofed alternately. The berries aie red, fucculent, 
the ft ze of our fmalleft European cherries, and difpofed 
in. umbellated groups. Turkeys and other poultry feed 
-much upon them; the pulp is fweetifh, and of a clammy 
confiftence. In Jamaica it has the name of clammy cherry, 
or turkey-berry tree. Native of Jamaica, and mod of the 
other iflands. . Cultivated feveral years before 1759. 
7. Cordia patagonula, or lpear-leaved cordia, or pata¬ 
gonula : leaves oblong-lanceolate, fmooth on both fur- 
faces, upper ones ferrate ; branchlets hairy. The appear¬ 
ance of this Ihrub is between that of privet and qlatenms. 
Stem Ttraight ; bark- greeuifh alb-colour, fpotted with 
white ; the upper part, jmd particularly the’ends of the 
branches, covered with long hairs. Leaves like thofe of 
privet,, of a filming pale green, but in form approaching 
thofe of alaternus ; fmooth, but along the edges, .and on 
the middle nerve underneath, having (lender greeuifh 
hairs. The flowers c’ome forth among the leaves in fmall 
bunches,, having the fmell of elder flowers; and, when 
they decay, turn of’ a reddifh brown* like the privet. 
Cultivated in the Eltham garden, about 172S, from feeds 
thqt cam? from Patagonia in South America; Linnaeus 
fijys that this plant is ne'arly allied to the genus cordia. 
He makes the effence of patagonula to confift in the 
largenefs of the fructiferous calyx. The corolla alfo 
having little or no tube, is vvheel-fliaped ; and the fruit 
is a capfule. With the feeds we are not yet well ac¬ 
quainted. We have followed the Ikilful author of Hortus 
Kewenfis, in reducing it to this genus. It flowers molt 
part of the fumraer. 
S. Cordia afpefa,"or (harp-pointed cordia • leaves ovate, 
acuminate, rough ; flowers in cymes, wrinkled. Native 
of the ifland of Tongataboo. 
9. Cordia dichotoma, or dichotomous -cordia : leaves 
oblong-ovate, fcarcely crenate'; corymbs dichotomous. 
.Native of New Caledonia. 
10. Cordia retufa, or knetted cordia: leaves in bundles, 
wedge-form, retufe, three toothed. 11. Cordia micran- 
thus, or fmall cordia: leaves elliptic, lanceolate, quite 
entire, membranaceous, veined; racemes compound, lax. 
12. Cordia elliptica, or elliptic cordia: leaves elliptic, 
acuminate, entire, coriaceous; branches compound, dif- 
fufed; drupes acuminate. Natives of the Weft Indies. 
Propagation and Culture. Thefe plants, being natives 
of hot countries, are too tender to live through the win¬ 
ter in this country, unlefs they are preferved in a ftove, 
They are all propagated by feeds, which muft-be pro¬ 
cured from the countries of their natural growth ; thefe 
feeds muff be fown in fmall pots, which muff be plunged 
into a good hot-bed of tanners’ bark in the fpring ; and, 
.if the feeds are frefh and'good, tiie plants will begin to 
.appear in fix or eight weeks after. Thefe muff be brought 
forward in the hot-bed, by being treated as other tender 
exotic plants, obferving frequently to water them in fum- 
mer; and in J uly, if the plants have made much advance, 
they fhould be gradually hardened, oth.erwife they will 
grow lo weak as not to be eafily preferved through the 
winter. As thefe plants obtain ftrength, they will be¬ 
come more hardy; but, during the two firff winters, it 
will be proper to plunge them into the tan-bed in the 
ftove ; but when they begin to have woody ftems, they 
may be placed on (helves, in a dry ftove ; where, if they 
are kept in a moderate degree of heat, they may be pre¬ 
ferved very well, efpecially the third fort, which is 
fomewhat hardier than the others. This may alfo be 
placed abroad in a warm fituation, in the beginning of 
July, where the plants may remain till the middle of 
September^ 
