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eee se oe eters Bee Ng es pes but there is not much taste in them. The flowers 
The older botanists alwaye oe vee ee ney a fae so bright nor so numerous as in that species. 
bactsinidenue Ulnve chiki Sere ai con : a ms . C. speciosa (Sebestena), and Solander gives of it, in 
Rie ers of the Society Islands, under t at name, the following detailed description :—* Arbor 
ps oe er um priecipue locis humidis 80-pedalis et ultra. Rami teretes, glabri. Folia alterna, petio- 
ee = re a ae ae acuminata), Integerrima, obsolete undulata, glabra, superne pilis raris brevissimis 
m Fe it us adspersa, subtus levia, spithamea et sepe pedalia, yenosa; venis paucis remotis, prope 
yuHE ee a geno bes Janugine rivulosa. Petioli foliis duplo breviores, glabriusculi. Panicule florum 
eee uae Serre bis vel ter dichotome, petiolis breviores. Calyx eylindraceus, teres, levis, semun- 
ea 7 ae oy eee ae Seen unicus plerumque exteris duplo major. Corolla 
rok Sr ee ee ae alyce paulo longior, vix uncialis. Limbus campanulatus, 5-fidus. %a- 
; oi : corolle adnata, superne tantum libera, longitudine tubi. dAnthere oblongo-lineares, erect, 
eee pene ee longior sed corolla breyior, superne bis 2-fidus. Stigmata obtusiuscula, Drupa 
i cula, cilyce persistenti excreto erecto circumyoluta. Nwa sulcato-sinuosa, dura, crassa, 4- 
locularis. Nuelet solitarii, oyati, compressi, nivel. ; 
ma iS Authores arborem Indie Orientalis describentes flores dicunt aurantiacos seu fulvos uti nostri fuere, 
ili autem qui occidentalem arborem describunt flores aiunt escarlatinos seu miniatos et folia aspera; forte 
specie distinguendz, quod conferentibus appareat.”’ 
* Obs.—Collibus glareosis saxosisque fere vix 30-pedalis, in locis humilioribus luxurians, alta evadit 
arbor, ubi frequens plantata, precipue prope zedes, ob usum foliorum in tingendo rubro cum fructu Fici tine- 
tore, ms. 1514. Folia vel guttatim adsperguntur succo fiewum, aquaque nucum cocos, vel immerguntur 
liquore ex aqua cocos et succo ficuum preparata, deinde assidue manibus premantur conterunturque; color 
tune emicat ruber et tinctura ex inde ecolligitur que per fibras Cyperi elati colati linteis conciliat elegantem 
colorem ameene rubrum. Loco foliorum Cordie Sebestene, folia juniora Convolvuli Brasiliensis, Linn. Sp. 
Pl., adhibentur, minus tamen expetita nec in usu vocatur ubi Sebestena occurrit,” 
EXPLANATION OF Pratn XXXIV., representing Cordia subcordata, Lam. Fig. 1, an entire flower; 
2, corolla laid open; 3, pistil; 4 and 5, longitudinal and cross-sections of ovary; 6, ripe fruit:—%gs. 3, 4, 
and 5, slightly magnified. Fig. 6, copied from Parkinson’s Drawing at the British Museum, which has also 
seryed as a pattern to the colonrist for the whole plate. 
2. C. (Gerascanthus) aspera, Forst. Prodr. n. 109 (Tab. XXXV.) ; arborea, pube ferruginea 
hirsuta demum glabrescens; foliis membranaccis ovatis acuminatis asperulis supra glabratis, serratis, 
serraturis subulatis; floribus parvis cymoso-glomeratis ; calyce ovato-cylindracco ferrugineo-villoso 10- 
striato, dentibus 5 minimis subulatis; corolle (albz) tubo calycem vix superante lobis zstivatione 
inflexis et corrugatis longiore; drupa ovata acuta nuda, putamine 1—-2-spermo. A. Gray in Proceed, 
Amer. Acad.—C, Sprengelii, DC. Prodr. vol. ix. p. 473. C. dichotoma, Sprengl. Pug. p. 19. n. 34. 
non Forst. Nomen vernac. Vitiense, “Tou.”—On the banks of streams, Taviuni, and most of the 
other islands (Seemann! n, 336), Also collected in the Tongan (orster! D. Nelson !), and Sa- 
moan islands (U. 8. Expl. Exped.). 
A tree about 20 feet high, the fruit of which is used for glueing native cloth together. 
ExphaNavTion oF Prarn XXXV., representing Cordia aspera, Forst. Fig. 1, a flower-bud; 2, an 
open flower; 3, corolla laid open; 4, a pistil; 5, an anther; 6, petal; 7 and 8, longitudinal and cross- 
sections of oyary:—all magnified. One of the larger leaves 1s represented in outline in the background of 
the plate. 
Il. Tournefortia, Linn. Gen. n. 192, Calyx 5- rarius 4-partitus. Corolla hypocraterimorpha, 
rarius tubo abbreviato 5-fida, fauce nuda. Stamina 5 rarius 4 inclusa, plerumque medio aut supra 
mediam partem tubi inserta; filamentis tubo adnatis ; antheris linearibus aut lanceolatis, plemnmane 
acutis submucronatis. Stylus sepius brevis, nunc elongatus aut deficiens. Stigma indivisum v. a 
lobum, peltatum v. subconicum. Ovarium 4-loculare, ovulis in loculo solitarus, pendulis, anatropis. 
Fructus 2-carpellaris, carpellis nunc indivisis pyreniformibus 2-spermis 2-8-locularibus, nune 2-par- 
titis et ideo fructus 4-dymus seu 4-gaster evadens. Semina in loculis solitaria; radicula supera, 
_Fyutices erecti aut scandentes, rarius aut arborescentes aut 
rarissime aut partim oppositis aut sessilibus 
—DC. Prodr. vol. 
brevi, cotyledonibus ovatis planis. 
herbs, foliis seepissime alternis petiolatis integerrimis, | oP) 
aut sinuatis; spicis secundifloris bracteatis sepius cymosis, corollis albis y. flavidis. 
ix. p. 513.—Messerschmidia, Linn. Mant. 
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