Curtis Botanical Magazine Plate 794 - Cordia sebestena (Rough-leaved Cordia) | Original Hand-Colored Print

Original hand-colored antique botanical print from Curtis's Botanical Magazine - Plate 794, Cordia sebestena (Rough-leaved Cordia).

• Plate: 794
• Latin name: Cordia sebestena
• Common name: Rough-leaved Cordia
• Native region: West-Indies
• Flower colour: Scarlet
• Linnaean class / order: Pentandria / Monogynia
• Publication: Nov. 1, 1804
• Medium: Original hand-colored engraving (physical print, not a reproduction)

Original Curtis text
Transcribed from the plate's accompanying description page:

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CORDIA SEBESTENA. ROUGH-LEAVED CORDIA.

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Class and Order.
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Generic Character.
Cor. infundibuliformis, Stylus dichotomous, Drupa nucleis trilocularibus.

Specific Character and Synonyms.
CORDIA Sebestena; foliis oblongo-ovatis repandis scabris. Willd. Sp. Pl. 1. 1073. Haßfela, lt. 458. Murt. Mill. Dict. n. 2. Bot. Rep. t. 157. CORDIA foliis subovatis subrepandis. Jacq. Amer. 42. CORDIA nucis juglandis folio. Plum. Gen. nov. 13. Ir. 105. CORDIA foliis amplioribus, hirtis, tubo floris subæquali. Brown Fam. 202. SEBESTENA scabra, flore miniato crispo. Dill. Elth. 341. 255. t. 231. CARYOPHYLLUS spurius Mauritius inodorus. Sloane Fam. 126. Hift. 2. p. 20. t. 64. Catesb. Car. 2. p. 91. t. 91. NOVELLA nigra. Rumph. Amb. 2. p. 226. t. 75. Burm. Ind. 59. WANZEY. Bruce's Travels, 5. p. 54. cum tabula? vix.

It is not improbable but that more than one species have been included in the above synonyms, but we have not been able to distinguish them. The oriental plant, which is likewise an inhabitant of the South-Sea Islands, is every where described as having yellow flowers and smoother leaves, while that of the West-Indies, like ours, is always spoken of as having scarlet flowers. The leaves vary in being more or less repand,

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