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flowered, sparsely pilosulous before anthesis. Floral pedicels slender, 1 mm. 
long or less. Calyx tubular-campanulate, obsoletely 10-suleate, about 5.5 mm. 
long, scarious, 3-lobulate at the apex, the lobules ovate-apiculate, one of them 
often 2-denticulate. Corolla white, the tube about 5.5 mm. long, broadening to 
the apex, the lobes 5, ovate-rounded, wide apart, reflexed. Stamens inserted 
near the corolla throat, exserted, the filaments villous at the base, the anther 
cells ovoid, broadly parted at the base. Pistil 5.5 mm. long, the ovary globose, 
the style first 2-branched, the branches bifid, each of the ultimate divisions 
ending in a clavate stigma. 
Drupe not seen, 
Type in the U. 8. National Herbarium, no. 715984, collected in flower in open 
forest around Garachiné, southern Darién, Panama, February 12, 1912, by H. 
Pittier (no. 5694). 
A member of the group of Cordia nitida Vahl, differing from that species in 
the shape of the leaves, the scarious, glabrous, and 3-lobulate calyx, the texture 
of the corolla, and the length of the stamens. 
Cordia trichostyla Vittier, sp. nov. Figure 102. 
Section Myxa, subsection Laxiflorae. A small tree, 6 to 8 meters high, the 
branchlets terete, at first fuliginous-hairy, later glabrous. 
Leaves coriaceous, the petioles broadly sulecate above, carinate beneath, 6 
to 7 mm. long, fuliginous-hairy, the blades ovate or oblong, broader and rounded 
at the base, acute-acuminate at the apex, 10 to 18 cm. long, 4 to 7.5 em. broad, 
scabrid above and dark green, the costa and veins subimpressed and ferru- 
ginous-pubescent, beneath paler, pubescent, reticulate, 
the costa and veins prominent. 
Inflorescences terminal, cymose-paniculate, few- 
flowered, the rachis fuliginous-hairy. Flowers sessile; 
calyx tubular, attenuate to the base, about 5 mm, long, 
| wr 6 minutely pubescent without, 5-toothed, the teeth deltoid, 
Fig. 102.—(a) Flower about 1.2 mm. long; corolla white, tubular, narrow, 
and (b) pistil of “eeply 5-lobulate, glabrous, the tube 4.5 to 5 mm, long, 
Oor@ia trichostyla, the lobes oblong, obtuse, reflexed, about 2.5 mm, long, 
Scale 2. 1.5 mm. broad; stamens 5, inserted about 1 mm. below 
the apex of the interlobular sinus, long-exserted, the filaments densely setulose 
at the base, sparsely so to the apex, the anthers broad, with divaricate cells; 
ovary globose, minutely pubescent; style sparsely setulose, 3.5 to 4 mm, long, 
twice dichotomous, the ultimate branches each ending in a large, glabrous, 
rounded-depressed stigma. 
Drupes globose, red. 
Type in the U. 8. National Herbarium, no. 472845, collected near Secanquim, 
Alta Verapaz, Guatemala, at an altitude of about 550 meters, in blossom, April 
80, 1905, by H. Pittier (no. 189). 
Cordia acuta Pittier, sp. nov. Figure 103. 
Section Myxa, subsection Spiciformes. A shrub, the branchlets subangulate, 
densely ferruginous-hairy. 
Leaves subcoriaceous, the petioles canaliculate, 0.8 to 2.2 em, long, ferrugi- 
nous-tomentose, the blades ovate to ovate-elliptic, broadly cuneate at the base, 
acute at the apex, 6 to 14 cm. long, 2 to 5.5 cm. broad, dark green, impressed- 
reticulate and scabrous above, elevated-reticulate and softly hairy beneath, the 
costa and veins impressed above, prominent and ferruginoOus-tomentose beneath. 
Floral spikes axillary, simple, few-flowered, and interrupted, the rachis 
angulate, ferruginous-hairy, up to 16 cm, long, free to the base (i. e. not adnate 
to the petiole). Flowers sessile; calyx broadly tubular-campanulate, about 3.5 
