STANDLEY TEEES AND SHRUBS OF MEXICO. 1219 



(MiehoacS,n, Guerrero, Oaxaca) ; " amapa prieta " (Sinaloa) ; " palo de rosa " 

 (Oaxaca, Cuba, Porto Rico) "palo Maria" (Guerrero, Ramirez); "laurel" 

 (Panama, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras); "solera" (Co- 

 lombia) ; "laurel macho" (Nicaragua) ; " capa prieta" (Porto Rico, Cuba) ; 

 " varia," " capS, roja " (Cuba); " canjaro," " pardillo " (Venezuela); " suchi- 

 cahue " {Reko) ; " Srbol del ajo " (Peru); "laurel bianco" (El Salvador); 

 "canalete" (Colombia). 



The wood is highly valued for carpenter and cabinet work, and is used 

 for beams, flooring, ceiling, and finer work. The smaller branches are some- 

 times employed for making barrel hoops. The forks of the young twigs are 

 almost always enlarged by hollow swellings, which afford shelter for fierce 

 ants, hence the name " hormiguero." The fruit is edible. A decoction of the 

 leaves is employed as a tonic and stimulant, especially in the case of catarrh 

 and affections of the lungs, and an ointment made with the pulvex-ized seeds 

 has been used in the West Indies as a remedy for cutaneous diseases. The 

 fresh bark is reported to have an odor suggestive of garlic. 



4. Cordia seleriana Fernald, Proc. Amer. Acad. 36: 498. 1901. 

 Michoacan to Oaxaca ; type from Huilotepec, Oaxaca. 



Shrub or small tree ; leaves ovate to suborbicular, scabrous or hispidulous ; 

 cymes few-flowered ; calyx tubular-campanulate, 1 cm. long or less ; corolla 

 white, 1.5 to 3 cm. long. 



5. Cordia greggii Torr. U. S. & Mex. Bound. Bot. 135. 1859. 

 Cordia greggii palmeri S. Wats. Proc. Amer. Acad. 24: 61. 1889. 

 Cordia watsoni Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 1 : 89. 1890. 



Baja California to Sinaloa, Durango, Zacatecas, and Coahuila ; type from 

 Bolson de MapimI, Durango. 



Shrub, 1 to 3 meters high ; leaves mostly ovate or obovate, rounded or obtuse 

 at apex, obtuse or acute at base, coarsely dentate, very scabrous ; flowers white, 

 in few-flowered headlike cymes ; calyx about 7 mm. long, the lobes subulate ; 

 corolla 1.5 to 3 cm. long. " "Vara prieta " (Sinaloa) ; " San Juanito " (Durango, 

 Sinaloa). 



A decoction of tlie leaves is said to be used as a stimulant medicine. 



6. Cordia elaeagnoides DC. Prodr. 9: 474. 1845. 



Michoacan to Chiapas; type from Chinitfm, between Tehuantepec and Boca 

 del Monte. 



Tree, 6 to 10 meters high ; leaves ovate to broadly elliptic, 8 to 17 cm. long, 

 acuminate or long-acuminate, entire or nearly so, glabrous and smooth above; 

 flowers creamy white, in large cymes ; calyx 6 mm. long, whitish-sericeous, the 

 teeth obtupe; corolla 2 cm. broad or larger. " Grisiiio " (Chiapas) ; " bocote,"" 

 " gueramo " (Michoacan, Guerrero); " ocotillo meco " (Oaxaca). 



The wood is said to be valuable for cabinet work. 



7. Cordia g'uerkeana Loesener, Verb. Bot. Ver. Brandenb. 55: 186. 1913. 

 Oaxaca ; type from Totolapam. 



Leaves oblong to broadly obovate or oval-oblong, 4.5 to 9 cm. long, obtuse 

 or rounded at apex, entire or nearly so, glabrate above ; flowers fragrant ; 

 calyx 10 to 12 mm. long, fulvous-tomentose, the teeth short, obtuse ; corolla 

 white, the tube more than twice as long as the calyx. " Laa-zaa-yi-xe "^ 

 (Seler). 



8. Cordia boissieri DC. Prodr. 9: 478. 1845. 



Coahuila to Tamaulipas and San Luis Potosl. Western Texas. 

 Shrub or small tree, 8 meters high or less, the trunk up to 20 cm. in 

 diameter ; bark thick, gray, ridged ; leaves ovate to oblong, 8 to 12 cm. long^ 



