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thick, deep-green, the slender venation prominent beneath, the 

 principal secondaries lo or 12 on each side, falcate and strongly 

 ascending, the venation coarsely reticulate. Cymes small, 

 short and broad, stoutly peduncled, the flowers sessile, about 

 5 mm. long. Calyx turbinate, sulcate, lobed about one-fourth 

 of the way, the lobes ovate, obtuse, unequal. Corolla-tube 

 cylindraceous, about as long as the calyx, the lobes half as long, 

 obovate, recurved. Stamens attached at the summit of the 

 tube, shorter than the corolla. Ovary two-thirds the length of 

 corolla-tube, oval or slightly broader above, short-pointed. 

 United portion of style about as long as the ovary, the two 

 branches again dividing into two at their middle portion. Fruit 

 globose, I cm. thick, obtusely lo-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 slender, flexuous, terete, the intemodes 

 mostly much less than half the length of the leaves. Petioles 

 I to 3 cm. long, slender, sub-terete, very slightly channelled 

 above. Blades 4 to 8 cm. long, 2.5 to 5 cm. broad, ovate with 

 the base varying from rounded to truncate or even slightly 

 cordate, mostly a little oblique and abruptly and very slightly 

 produced into the petiole, acuminate and acute at the summit, 

 unequally dentate-serrate, both tlie teeth and the sinuses acute, 

 the 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. Calyx- 

 tube 3 mm. long, turbinate, sulcate, strigose like the filiform 

 teeth, which are rather longer than the tube and nearly as long 

 as the corolla. Tube of corolla cylindraceous, slightly enlarged 

 above, and nearly as long as the limb, which is campanulate 

 with sinuate margin. Stamens adnate to the base of the limb, 

 shorter than the corolla. Style filiform, about as long as the 

 stamens, the branches nearly half as long as the united portion. 

 Ovary oblong-ovoid, 2 mm. long, pilose, with a persistent beak 

 from which the style separates. Disk small, annular, lightly 

 lobed. 



"A shrub, 3 to 8 feet. Occasional in dry thickets below 

 500 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- 



