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len ler pil o si s, fere hirsutis, calycibus strigosis vel 
subhispidis. 
Frutex: Rio de Janeiro (Lund). 
€. In herb. Lundii adest specimen, rnea sententia forma Cor- 
diæ discoloris hirsuta, et intermedia inter hane speciem 
et C. bermanniæfoliam, a qua differt solummodo cymis 
peduneulatis nec subsessilibus. Kami teretes pilis laxis, 
patulis fuscescentes sunt; folia alterna v. subopposita, ellip- 
tica, acuta vel aeuminata, margine basi excepto grosse 
serrata, supra granulata strigosa scabra, subtus tomento 
brevissimo discoloria, laxe pilosa, juniora utrinque, subtus 
inprimis, hirsuto-tomentosa. Cymæ peduneulatæ densius- 
culæ, rami calycesque hirti vel subhirsuli. 
,,ln montibus Tijuea. Julio 1833^^ Lund. 
10. Cordia lapensis nov. spec. 
Affinis C. hermanniæfoliæ. 
Cordia ramis teretibus, ramulis subangulatis, petiolis pe- 
dunculisque pilis brevibus patentibus hirto - tomentosis; 
fobis suboppositis, petiolo brevi geniculato, ovatis vel 
ovato - ellipticis 5 basi rotundatis et in petiolum sæpe 
paullo decurrentibus, apice acutis vel subaeuminatis, mar¬ 
gine ima basi excepta leviter et regulariter serratis, supra 
impresso-venosis subrugulosis granulatis dense strigosis, 
subtus molliter tomentosis, junioribus æque ac ramulis 
nitore velutino fuscescentibus; cymis peduneulatis axilla- 
ribus, densiusculis, floribus subsecundis; calyce 5-dentato. 
Frutex est ramis ramulisque ut supra descriptis. Folia 
subopposita, petiolo o—7“'“ longo, basi ramulo axil- 
lari adfjato et obsolete geniculato; lamina ovata v. ovato- 
elliptica, basi sæpe rotundata et in petiolum abrupte 
altenuata, apice acuta v. subaeuminata, margine dense et 
adpresse serrata, serraturis basin versus obsoletis, supra 
nervis utrinsecus 5—6 venulisque impressis rugulosa. 
