semi-pellucid, white fruits come in pairs. The tree requires half shade 
and good drainage. 
ERVATAMIA CORONARIA. (Apocynaceae). CRAPEJASMINE. 
(Syn. Tabernaemontana coronaria). A much branched evergreen 
shrub, rarely trimmed as a small tree, bearing a profusion of whorled 
white flowers through most of the year. Easy to grow, knows no 
pests, should be in every Florida garden. 
EHRETIA AUSTIN-SMITHII. (Boraginaceae). My Costa Rican 
correspondent writes : “Tree to 40 feet with a broad, dense crown. 
Flowers white to cream colored, % inch across. Leaves large, corru- 
gated, scabrous, used for scrubbing, etc. Fruit size and form of a 
large, sweet cherry, rich cream yellow, turning to dark brown over- 
ripe, edible, has apple flavor. The fruit in Costa Rica is preserved in 
honey, sweet wines or liquor. About 5 to 6 years from seed to 
fruiting. Sun or half shade. Usually found in damp soil, somewhat 
heavy, but it is adaptable. The tree is endemic in the upper tropical 
zone of Costa Rica.” 
The bell-shaped flowers were in clusters at the tips of the branches. 
The Ehretias are clasely related to our native FLorma GEIGER TREE 
(Cordia sebestena). See next entry. 
CORDIA LEUCOSEBESTENA. (Boraginaceae). Here in Florida 
we think highly of our small native Ge1icER TREE (Cordia sebestena) 
with its very brilliant orange, geranium-like flowers in clusters, but 
it is difficult to propagate and is not planted as much as it should be. 
There are splendid specimens on either side of the Citizens Bank 
building in Stuart. Cordia leucosebestena is a white-flowered variety 
of the same tree and is entirely new in this country. The seed came 
from the Harvard Botanical Garden at Cienfuegos, Cuba. 
CORDIA OBLIQUA. A hardy, deciduous tree from India with 
a stout trunk and spready branches, according to Sturrock. The stiff 
smooth leaves are 3-5 inches long, dark green. The small white flowers 
are carried in open clusters. Brandis’ “Forest Flora of Northwest and 
Central India” says C. obliqua is synonymous with C. myxa, another 
white flowered member of the family in India, but I think this is an 
error. The leaves of C. myxa are rough and harsh on the under surface. 
CORDIA HOLSTI. An African member of the family. Battis- 
combe’s “Trees and Shrubs of Kenya Colony,” describes it thus: “A 
tall timber-tree, up to 70 ft. when growing in forest, but rarely ex- 
ceeding 50 ft. when grown in the open. It occurs commonly in the 
Meru Forest (east Mt. Kenya) and the Kakamega Forest (in the 
Nyanza Basin), at an altitude of 4,000 - 6,000 ft. It is also found in 
the warmer parts of the Kikuyu country where there is a good rainfall. 
The large roundish leaves are clothed with brown tomentum on the 
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