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branches again dividing into two at their middle portion. Fruit 
globose, 1 cm. thick, obtusely ro-ribbed or sulcate, somewhat 
fleshy, black, glabrous. 
“A forest tree, said to grow to 40 feet. Specimens collected 
from a rattoon. Corolla white. Valparaiso, 4500 feet, Febru- 
ary 25." (Herbert H. Smith, Colombia, No. 1872.) 
Cordia subtruncata. 
Densely strigose throughout. Stems shrubby, the branch- 
lets rather short and s ender, flexuous, terete, the internodes 
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he venation prominent beneath, the secondaries about 5 on 
each side. Heads one to three at the ends of the branchlets, 
slenderly peduncled, spherical, dense, 1.5 to 2 cm. broad. C 
ube 3 mm. long, turbinate, sulcate, strigose like the filiform 
teeth, which are rather longer than the tube and nearly as long 
. corolla. Tube of corolla cylindraceous, slightly enlarged 
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Shorter than the corolla. Style filiform. about as long as the 
Stamens, the branches nearly half as long as the united portion. 
ary oblong-ovoid, 2 mm. long, pilose, with a persistent beak 
nm Which the style separates. Disk small, annular, lightly 
Obed. 
A shrub, 3 to 8 feet. Occasional in dry thickets below 
300 feet, especially near the seashore. Flowers white. Col- 
lected on plains near the seashore at Cienaga, September 12; 
also near Bonda, August 24." (Herbert H. Smith, Colombia, 
. No. 583.) The same as Glaziou's No. 15273. 
