338 FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY BOTANY, VOL. II 



Bourreria pulchra Millsp., comb. nov. Cordia pulchra Millsp. in Engl. 



Bot. Jahrb. xxxvi. Beibl. Ixxx. 24 (1905). 



A re-examination of the specimens on which this species was 

 founded, in the light of additional material, shows the generic affinity 

 to be with Bourreria rather than with Cordia. In addition to the speci- 

 mens cited under the original description the following collection is 

 here referred. MEXICO. State of Yucatan: Colonia San Cosme, 

 vicinity of Merida, 20 February, 1906, /. M. Greenman, no. 360 (hb. 

 Field Museum). The plant is rather common at this station where it 

 grows as a shrub from i to 2 m. high and produces corymbose-paniculate 

 clusters of numerous creamy white flowers the fragrance of which is 

 at first pleasing but soon becomes heavy and somewhat unpleasant. 



Cordia appendiculata Greenman, sp. nov. 



Frutex 1.5-4 m. altus; ramis teretibus hispido-strigosis et pilis 

 minute puberulentis intermixtis; foliis petiolatiso vato-lanceolatis 3-7 

 cm. longis 1.2-3 cm - latis acutis leviter crenato-serratis, basi cuneatis 

 supra scabris subtus pallidioribus griseo-strigosis; petiolis .5-1.5 cm. 

 longis pubescentibus ; pedunculis terminalibus et lateralibus 3-6 cm. 

 longis hirsuto-strigosis; capitulis globosis 2-2.5 cm. diametro; calyce 

 8-10 mm. longo 5-lobatocano-strigoso-hirsuto; lobisovatis circiter 2 mm. 

 longis acutis vel paullo acuminatis dorso infra apicem appendiculatis, 

 appendicibus setaceis 3-6 mm. longis hirsutis ; corolla 2-2.6 cm. longa 

 alba membranacea infundibuliformi extrinsecus intusque glabra calyce 

 circiter triple longiore, limbo 2-3 cm. diametro; staminibus 5 inclusis 

 inaequalibus; stylo et ovario glabro; fructu ignoto. MEXICO. State of 

 Oaxaca: Canon de Tomellin, Dto. de Cuicatldn, altitude 700 m., 20 

 June, 1908, Carlos & Cassiano Conzatti, no. 2218 (hb. Field Museum 

 cat. nos. 235154, 246874, type); Tomellin Canyon, alt. 760 m., 18 May, 



1894, C. G. Pringle, no. 4630 (hb. Gray and hb. U. S. Nat. Museum); 

 between San Geronimo and La Venta, 13 July, 1895, E. W. Nelson, 

 no. 2785 (hb. Gray); Cuesta de Quiotepec, alt. 1525 m., 13 August, 



1895, Lucius C. Smith, no. 700 (hb. Gray). 



The species here described resembles superficially C. macrocephala 

 HBK. with which it had been confused, but differs in having larger 

 leaves and appendaged calyx-lobes. 



CORDIA BREVISPICATA Mart. & Gal., var. hypomalaca Greenman, 



var. nov. 



Habitu et floribus formae typicae; foliis 2-6 cm. longis .5-1.5 cm. 

 latis hirsuto-hispidulis subtus niveo-tomentosis; spicis plerumque longe 

 pedunculatis usque ad 12 cm. longis. MEXICO. State of Oaxaca: 

 Cerro San Felipe, altitude 1700 m., 30 June, 1907, C. Conzatti no. 1831 

 (hb. Field Museum, cat. nos. 225986 and 246873). 



