86 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY. 
Cent.-Am. Bot. ii. 362, in part. WV. rupicola, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 
vill. 284, & xviii, 119, in part, not Bonpl. acc. to Choisy. . origani- 
folia, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. v. 337, in part, not HBK. LW. dichotoma, 
var. parvifolia, Torr. Mex. Bound. 147. ——- Mexico. State of Tamauli- 
pas: de Santander A Victoria, Berlandier, nos. 834, 2254 (hb. Gr.); 
San Fernando to Jimeney, 26-27 February, 1902, H. W. Nelson, no. 
6606 (hb. Gr., and hb. U. S. Nat. Mus.). State of Nuevo Leon: Mon- 
terey, Haton & Edwards (hb. Gr.). State of Chihuahua: Santa Rosa, 
Bigelow (hb. Gr.). State of Coahuila: Soledad, Palmer, no. 2023 (Coll. 
of 1880, hb. Gr.) ; Valley of the Rio Grande, near Piedras Niegras, 
19 April, 1900, C. G. Pringle, no. 9173 (hb. Gr.). Yucatan: without 
~ locality, Sehott (hb. Gr.)._ 
This species has been “hitherto confused with WN. origanifolium, HBK., 
and WV. rupicola, Bonpl., which are both species with distinctly suffruti- 
cose stems, while WV. parvifolium is an annual. From the former, 
namely, NV. origanifolium, the species here proposed is readily distin- 
guished by the broader leaves and larger flowers; and from the latter, 
namely, WV. rupicola, by the cinereous-hirsute character of the leaves, not 
densely white-tomentose on the under surface, and by the larger flowers, 
nce-linear not spatulate calyx-divisions. 
Cordia stellata. Shrub, much-branched ; branchlets, as well as the 
foliage and inflorescence, densly covered with a canous-stellate tomen- 
tum: leaves petiolate, ovate, 2.5 to 10 em. long, 1.5 to 8 cm. broad, 
obtuse, irregularly crenate-dentate, cuneate or subcordate at base, and 
the lamina usually short-decurrent on the petiole, densely canous-stellate- 
pubescent on both surfaces, paler and rather conspicuously reticule-nerved 
beneath ; petioles 4 to 12 mm. long, channelled above, densely stellate- 
pubescent ; inflorescence terminating the stem and branches in peduncu- 
late spherical heads, 1.5 to 2 cm. in diameter; peduncles 2 to 4 cm. 
long: calyx obovoid, 5 to 6 mm. long, somewhat inflated, shortly and 
obtusely 5-dentate: corolla white, more or less salver-shaped, or sub- 
campanulate ; tube slightly exceeding the calyx; limb about 1 cm. 
in diameter, 5-lobed, strongly reticulate-veined. — MExIco. State of 
Oaxaca: altitude 615 m., 27 August, 1894, LZ. ©. Smith, no. 147 
(hb. Gr.) ; Cuicatlan, altitude 600 m., 16 September, 1899, V. Gonzalez 
no, 983 (hb. Gr.); about 9.5 kilometers above Dominguillo, altitude 
640 m., October, 1894, E, W. Nelson, no. 1646 (hb. Gr., and hb. U. S. 
Nat. Mus.). 
In general aspect Cordia stellata resembles C. Pringlei, Robinson, 
with which species it has been hitherto confused. The entire plant 
