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25. Cordia appendiculata Greenm. Field Mus. Bot. 2: 338. 1912. 

 Oaxaca. 



Shrub or small tree, 3 to 4.5 meters high ; leaves ovate or oblong-ovate, 3 to 

 7 cm. long, acute, serrate, appressed-hispid above, setulose-pilose beneath ; 

 heads long-pedunculate, globose, 2 to 3 cm. in diameter; corolla white. 



Doubtfully distinct from C. perlonya. The description of C. oaxaca na DC.\ 

 the type of which came from Tololafa, is strongly suggestive of tins species, 

 and that may be the oldest name for it. 



26. Cordia podocephala Torr. U. S. & Mex. Bound. Bot. 135. 1S59. 

 Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas. Western Texas ; type from San Antonio. 

 Plants suffrutescent, 30 to 60 cm. high ; leaves ovate-oblong to narrowly 



lanceolate, 2 to 5 cm. long, obtuse or acute, coarsely serrate, scabrous ; 

 peduncles longer than the leaves, the heads 6 to 8 mm. thick; corolla white. 



27. Cordia ambigua Schlecht. & Cham. Linnaea 5: 115. 1830. 

 Veracruz; type from Jalapa. 



Slender shrub or tree, 3 to 6 meters higli ; leaves broadly ovate or elliptic, 

 3 to 8 cm. long, acute, coarsely serrate, scabrous above, hirtellous beneath ; 

 heads 7 to 10 mm. in diameter, slender-pedunculate. 



28. Cordia cana Mart. & Gal. Bull. Acad. Brux. 112: 331. 1844. 

 Cordia insularis Greenm. Proc. Amer. Acad. 33: 482. 1898. 

 Sinaloa to Oaxaca ; type from Oaxaca. Central America. 



Shrub, 1.5 to 4.5 meters high ; leaves lanceolate to oblong, ovate, or elliptic, 

 1.5 to 7.5 cm. long, acuminate to obtuse, serrate or subentire, scabrous above, 

 usually strigose beneath; heads mostly 5 mm. (in fruit often 1 cm. thick) in 

 diameter, slender-pedunculate; corolla greenish white. " Cuajatinta " (Guate- 

 mala, El Salvador); " varilla negra," " escobillo negro" (El Salvador). 



29. Cordia ferruginea Koem. & Schult. Syst. Veg. 4: 468. 1819. 

 Cordia laxi flora H. B. K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 3: 72. 1819. 

 Cordia crenulata A. DC. in DC. Prodr. 9: 492. 1845. 



Tepic to Chiapas and Veracruz. Guatemala to Colombia. 



Shrub, 2 to 4.5 meters high, sometimes subscandent ; leaves 4 to 15 cm. long, 

 acute or acuminate, usually rounded and abruptly decurrent at base, serrate 

 ■or subentire, scabrous or glabrate above, ferruginous-pubescent beneath ; flowers 

 in short or elongate, dense or interrupted spikes ; corolla greenish white, 

 about 4 mm. long. "Bejuco negro" (Guatemala, Honduras) ; "bubo," " gon- 

 guipo " (Veracruz, Villada). 



30. Cordia cylindrostachya (Ruiz & Pa v.) Roem. & Schult. Syst. Veg. 4: 

 459. 1819. 



Varronia cylindrostachya Ruiz & Pav. Fl. Peruv. Chil. 2: 23. 1799. 



ICordia ohliqua H. B. K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 3: 74. 1819. 



Cordia linearis A. DC. in DC. Prodr. 9 : 493. 1845. 



Cordia 'brevispicata Mart. & Gal. Bull. Acad. Brux. 11': 331. 1844. 



Cordia palmer i S. Wats. Proc. Amer. Acad. 24: 62. 1889. 



•Cordia socorrensis T. S. Brandeg. Erythea 7: 5. 1899. 



Cordia imparilis Macbride, Contr. Gray Herb. n. ser. 49: 16. 1917. 



Baja California and Sonora to Chiapas, Morelos, and Yucatan. West Indies ; 

 ■Central and South America ; type from Peru. 



Aromatic shrub, 1 to 3 meters high ; leaves 2 to 10 cm. long, mostly linear, 

 lanceolate, or oblong, usually serrate, commonly scabrous above and pubescent 



* Prodr. 9: 497. 1845. 



