1222 CONTKIBUTIONS FKOM THE NATIONAL HERBAKIUM. 



Shrub, 3 to 4.5 meters high; leaves ovate-oblong to broadly ovate, 4 to 10 

 cm. long, obtuse, coarsely crenate; heads 2.5 to 3 cm. in diameter, long-pe- 

 clunculate ; corolla white, 1 cm. long or less. •' Huazimilla " ( San Luis Po- 

 tosl, Seler). 



Some of the specimens have been determined as C. macrocephala H. B. K. 



19. Cordia stellata Greenm. Proc. Amer. Acad. 39: 86. 1903. 

 Puebla and Oaxaca ; type from Oaxaca. 



Shrub; leaves ovate to rounded-ovate, 2 to 10 cm. long, obtuse, coarsely 

 crenate, densely stellate-pubescent ; heads long-pedunculate, about 2 cm. in 

 diameter; corolla white, 1 cm. broad or less. 



20. Cordia corymbosa (L.) Don, Hist. Dichl. PI. 4: 383. 1838. 

 Lantana corymbosa L. Sp. PI. 628. 1753. 



Cordia ulmifoUa Juss. in Dum. Cours. Bot. Cult. 2: 148. 1802. 



Veracruz. West Indies; Central and South America. 



Shrub, 2 to 5 meters high, sometimes subscandent ; leaves ovate, lance-ob- 

 long, or elliptic, 3 to 11 cm. long, acute or acuminate, serrate or subentire, 

 scabrous above, pubescent beneath; heads numerous, about 7 mm. thick; 

 corolla white, 4 to 5 mm. long ; fruit red. " Basora prieta," " palo de perico," 

 "saraguaso" (Porto Rico); "varilla negra " (Costa Rica). 



21. Cordia urticacea Standi., sp. nov. 



Type from Real de Guadalupe, Michoacan or Guerrero, altitude 1,200 me- 

 ters {Langlass6 355; U. S. Nat. Herb. no. 385888). 



Shrub, 2 meters high, the branchlets densely hispid ; leaves slender-petiolate, 

 elliptic or broadly elliptic, 11 to 15 cm. long, 6 to 8 cm. wide, acute, abruptly 

 decurrent at base, coarsely serrate, hispid-hirsute; peduncles 12 cm. long, 

 hispid, the heads 1.5 cm. in diameter; calyx sparsely hispid, the lobes filiform, 

 2 to 4 mm. long; corolla white, 3 cm. long, the limb 3 cm. broad. 



22. Cordia limicola T. S. Brandeg. Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 6: 502. 1919. 

 Veracruz ; type from Zacuapan. 



Shrub ; leaves ovate or elliptic, 5 to 8 cm. long, acute, decurrent at base, 

 coarsely crenate-dentate ; peduncles equaling or longer than the leaves, the 

 heads about 1 cm. in diameter; calyx 8 mm. long. 



23. Cordia globosa (Jacq.) H. B. K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 3: 76. 1819. 

 Varronia globosa Jacq. Enum. PI. Carib. 14. 1760. 



Cordia dasycephala H. B. K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 3: 76. 1819. 



Sinaloa and Durango to Oaxaca, Veracruz, and Yucatan. W^est Indies; 

 Central and South America. 



Shrub, 2 to 4.5 meters high ; leaves narrowly lanceolate to ovate, 2 to 8 cm. 

 long, obtuse to acuminate, coarsely serrate, very scabrous ; heads mostly short- 

 pedunculate, 1 cm. in diameter or slightly larger; corolla white; fruit red. 

 "Ateje" (Cuba); " copillo," "saraguaso prieto " (Porto Rico); " cuajatinta," 

 "zompopo" (El Salvador). 



24. Cordia perlonga Fernald, Proc. Amer. Acad. 33: 90. 1897. 

 Type from Acapulco, Guerrero. 



Shrub witli dark bi*own bark ; leaves narrowly lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, 

 6 to 9 cm. long, acuminate, coarsely serrate, very scabrous; peduncles longer 

 than the leaves, the heads globose or oblong, in fruit 2 to 3 cm. long; corolla 

 white. 



