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Flowers white. Calyx tubular, prominently 10-striate, densely short hir- 

 sute-pubescent, 5-toothed. Corolla tube nearly as long as the calyx, the 

 5 lobes about 1.5 mm. long spreading or reflexed, Stamens 5, included, about 

 3 mm. long; filaments glabrous; afithers 0.5 ram. long. Ovary ovoid, 1.5 

 mm. long, glabrous, 2-celled, each cell 2-ovuled. Style 3 mm. long, ob- 

 scurely twice cleft at the apex, scarcely partite. Driipe 7 to 8 mm. in 

 diameter, the putamen very hard, strongly rugose, the calyx in fruit cleft 

 on one side, rotate 6 mm. in diameter. 



Type specimen collected by E. B. Copeland, without number, Davao, Dis- 

 trict of Davao, Mindanao, March, 1904. 



A species apparently closely related to Cordia cumingiana Vidal, differing 

 from the latter in its narrower, differently shaped leaves, which are acute 

 at the base, and obscurely cleft style. 



(3) Cordia blancoi Vidal, Rev. PI. Vase. Filip. 192. 188G; Ceron, Cat. PI. 



Herb. 120. 1892; Merrill, Forestry Bureau Bull. 1 : 50. 1903; Cordia 



sebestena Blanco, Fl. Filip. ed. 1, 121. 1837; ed. 2, 87; ed. 3, 1:158; 



Naves, ed. 3, pi. JjS, excl. syn., non Linn.; Cordia dichotoma Blanco, 



1. c, ed. 1, 123; ed. 2, 88, ed. 3, 1: 159, non Forst. Cordia myxa 



F.-Vill. Nov. App. 137. 1880; Vidal, Cat. PL Prov. Manila, -37. 1880; 



Sinopsis, Atlas, t. 10. f. D. 1883; Ceron, Cat. PI. Herb. 121. 1892, 



non Linn.; Cordia leschenaultiana Vidal, Phan. Cuming. Philip. 128. 



1885; Rev. PI. Vase. Filip. 193. 1886, non A. DC. 



An endemic species apparently very closely related to Cordia myxa Linn., 



common throughout the Philippines, represented by the following specimens: 



Luzon, Province of Rizal (1872, 2625 Merrill), Province of Bataan (768, 



1267, 1273 Borden), Province of Zambales (2912 Merrill), Province of 



Tayabas (22 Ritchie), Province of Camarines Sur (33, 84, 783, 791 Ahern). 



Guimaras Island (321 Gammill). Burias Island (983 Clark). Masbate 



(1008 Clark). Mindanao, District of Surigao (355 Ahern); District of 



Davao ( 342 Copeland ) . 



Cordia lesche7iaultiana A. DC, has been credited to the Philippines by 

 VidaP based on No. 1612 of Cuming's Philippine collection, this number 

 being also cited by A DeCandolle= in a footnote under the above as possibly 

 representing the species. A specimen of Cuming's plant exists in our her- 

 barium, and it is certainly only a young form of Cordia blancoi Vidal. The 

 leaves of Cordia blancoi are exceedingly variable, being frequently acute, 

 truncate or cordate at the base on the same specimen. In Cuming's speci- 

 men mentioned above, the leaves are all acute at the base, while no open 

 flowers are with it, only young flower buds being present. 



(4) Cordia blancoi Vidal, var. mollis Merrill, var nov. 



Similar to the species, differing in its more densely (lowered cymes, 

 slightly smaller flowers, the young branches, petioles, leaves, inflorescence 

 and calyces rather densely softly fulvous pubescent. 



Type specimen: Antipole, Province of Rizal, Luzon (455 Ahern's collec- 

 tor), April, 1904. 



' Phan. Cuming. Philip. 128. 1885 ; Rev. PI. Vase. Filip. 193. 1886. 

 = Prodr.. 9: 482. 1845. 



