Entry for CORDIA Milleni Baker [family BORAGINACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol IV, Part 2, page 5, (1905) Author: (By J. G. Baker, with additions by C. H. Wright.)
Names
CORDIA MilleniBaker [family BORAGINACEAE], in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 27.
Information
A large tree, with stout woody branchlets. Leaves cordate-suborbicular, 6–8 in. long and broad, finely pubescent all over beneath; petiole reaching 3–4 in. long. Cymes forming an ample panicle, with long spreading branches. Calyx 1/4 in. long, densely coated with drab tomentum, faintly ribbed but not sulcate; tube oblong; lobes small, ovate, acuminate. Corolla-tube cylindrical, slightly longer than the calyx; limb 1/2 in. in diam.; lobes ovate-oblong, 4 lin. long, 1 1/2 lin. broad. Stamens inserted in the corolla-throat; filaments 1 1/2 lin. long, with a few long hairs near the base. Ovary conical, gradually tapering into the style, occasionally 6-celled; style-arms long, slender, fimbriate at the margins.
Distribution
Lagos Upper Guinea Inland forests, Millen, 12!
Notes
According to Millen, “the wood is said not to be attacked by ants.”
