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ovate, acuminate and acute, directed downward or outward, 

 the margin entire or more or less sinuate, occasionally somewhat 

 dentate; thin, the slender venation slightly prominent beneath, 

 the principal secondaries about 5 on each side, the two lower 

 pair from the summit of the petiole. Peduncles crowded at 

 the ends of the branchlets, very short and stout, bifid, the 

 branches several flowered, bearing several pairs of small subu- 

 late bracts. Pedicels 2 cm. or more long, slender, the calyx 12 

 mm. long, the sepals light-brown with scarious margins, strongly 

 5 to 7-ribbed, sharply mucronulate, the inner somewhat shorter. 

 Corolla pink, 5 cm. long, broadly campanulate, the lower half 

 infundibular, the mouth 5 cm. broad, as pressed. Largest 

 stamens 2.5, shortest 1.5 cm. long, th; filaments very slender, 

 the anthers 3 mm. long, linear, obtuse, the base short-sagittate, 

 the lobes obtuse. Style filiform, shorter than the longest sta- 

 mens, the stigmas 2, sub-rotund, each nearly i mm. broad. 



"Twining to 5 or 6 feet, in thickets by the seashore at 

 Nequanga, April 4, the corolla light-rose or rose-purple." 

 (Herbert H. Smith, Colombia, No. 2109.) 



Cordia carnosa. 



Very finely scabrous, the lower leaf -surf aces softly tomen- 

 tellate. Branchlets slender, flexuous, widely spreading, angled 

 or striate. Petioles about 6 mm. long, broad, channelled 

 above, the blades 10 to 15 cm. long, 5 to 7 cm. broad, ovate 

 with rounded and mostly inequilateral base and abruptly acumi- 

 nate and acute summit, entire, fleshy, the slender midrib and 

 secondaries prominent on both sides, the principal secondaries 

 about 5 or 6 on each side, strongly ascending, slightly falcate 

 at the base, the venation finely reticulate. Cymes short, broad 

 and loose, the flowers about 5 mm. long. Calyx campanulate, 

 lobed about one third of the length, the lobes ovate, erect, 

 obtuse. Corolla-tube about as long as the calyx, lobed about 

 half-way, the lobes ovate, obtuse. Stamens included, attached 

 at the sinuses, the filaments very short. Ovary obovoid, sub- 

 truncate, or rounded at the summit, about as long as the style, 

 which is 4-fid nearly half way, the stigmas large, capitate. Fruit 

 not seen. 



Lower Orinoco, Venezuela, 1896 (Rusby and Squires, No 

 418). 



Cordia opaca. 



Shortly and finely strigose, the hairs of the stem divergent, 

 more or less ferruginous on the younger portions. Petioles 

 about 1 cm. long, stout, broadly channelled above. Blades 

 12 to 18 cm. long, 3 to 6 cm. broad, regularly lanceolate with 

 obtuse base and short-acuminate and acute summit, entire, 



