PITTIER—-PLANTS FROM COLOMBIA AND CENTRAL AMERICA. 25] 
BORAGINACEAE. 
SEVEN NEW SPECIES OF CORDIA. 
Cordia eriostigma Pittier, sp. nov. Figure 101. 
Section Myxa, subsection Laxiflorae. A middle-sized tree, the crown rounded- 
depressed, the young branchlets minutely ferruginous-pubescent. 
Leaves coriaceous, the petioles thick, angulate, sulcate, glabrous, 1.5 to 1.7 
cm. long, the blades ovate or obovate, entire, broadly cuneate at the base, obtuse 
at the apex, 8 to 14 cm. long, 5 to 7 cm. broad, impressed-reticulate, glabrous, 
caark green and lustrous above, paler, glabrous, minutely elevated-reticulate 
beneath, the costa and veins very sparsely ferruginous-pubescent, impressed on 
the upper face of the blade, very prominent on the nether face. 
Inflorescences terminal, cymose-paniculate, the rachis more or less ferru- 
ginous furfuraceous pubescent. Flowers single or geminate on a pedicel 3 to 
4 mm. long; calyx membranous, broadly 
campanulate, about 6 mm. long, 3 or 4- 
lobulate, the lobes acute, sometimes parted 
at the tip; corolla white, broad, about 9 
mm. long (the tube 6 mm. long), sub- 
campanulate, 5-lobulate, glabrous without, 
densely hairy inside below the insertion of 
the stamens, the lobes broad, rounded or 
subacute at the apex, reflexed; stamens 
free from about 3 mm. above the base of 
the corolla, the filaments almost glabrous, 
the anther cells 2 mm. long, ovoid, acute 
and divaricate at the base; ovary ovoid, 
obtuse; style glabrous, dividing first into 2 
branches, these in their turn divided, the 
whole about 1.5 mm. long; stigmas large, 
depressed-ovoid, the surface densely white- Fie. 101.— Floral detail of Oordia 
woolly. ertostigma, a, Calyx spread out; 
b, corolla spread out; ec, pistil. 
Drupe not seen. Scale 2. 
Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, 
no. 531695, collected at El Paso de la Balsa, on the Cauca River, near Jamund{, 
Cauca, Colombia, at an altitude of 980 meters, in flower, February 10, 1906, 
by H. Pittier (no. 1489). 
At the time of its discovery, this tree was profusely covered with the white, 
very fragrant blossoms and surrounded by swarms of bees, bumblebees, and 
other insects. It should certainly take a prominent place among the melliferous 
trees of the Tropics, but does not seem to be of very frequent occurrence in the 
Cauca Valley. Its affinities are with Cordia nitida DC. and C. lasiocalye Pittier. 
Cordia lasiocalyx Pittier, sp. nov. 
Section Myxa, subsection Laxiflorae. A small or middle-sized tree, entirely 
glabrous, the trunk low, the crown rounded and spreading; bark smooth, gray 
on the trunk and limbs, purplish on the branchlets. 
Leaves submembranous, dark green above, paler beneath, lustrous on both 
faces, the petioles rather slender, sulcate, 8 to 14 mm. long, the blades elliptic 
or oblong-elliptic, 10 to 12 cm. long, 3.5 to 4 cm. broad, cuneate-attenuate at the 
base, abruptly long-acuminate to the acute, mucronate apex; costa prominent 
on both faces, the veins and veinlets prominulous, more so on the lower face. 
Inflorescence cymose-paniculate, terminal or in the upper axils of the leaves, 
more or less regularly dichotomous, about equaling the leaves, the cymes many- 
