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3. Schoepfia mexicana, A. DO. Prodr. xiv. p. 622. In Mexico: 

 v. s. in herb. Hook. Oaxaca (Andrieux 345); Xalapa (Galeotti); 

 Mexico (Parkinson, sub nom. S. parvifolia Planch on MS.). 



A shrub with rugose branches and branchlets, becoming black 

 in drying: leaves ovate or ovate-elliptic, somewhat acute at the 

 base, obtusely acuminate, entire, rigidly chartaceous, fuscous- 

 green above, opaque, with immersed fine nerves, paler beneath, 

 with scarcely prominulent midrib and nerves, subapproximate, 10- 

 15 lines long, 5-8 lines broad, on petioles 1-2 lines long ; pedun- 

 cles solitary or geminate in the axils, 2-3 lines long, bearing 

 above 3 flowers on pedicels scarcely 1 line long ; calyx 1 line 

 long and broad, unequally 5-cleft, the teeth ciliate ; corolla ur- 

 ceolate; tube 3 lines long, agglutinated for half its length to the 

 ovary, the upper half broadly cylindrical, nearly 2 lines long, 

 half-cleft into 5 oblong recurving segments ; stamens 5, opposite 

 to the segments, inserted on a pilose ring on the margin of the 

 disk ; anthers ovoid, of 2 laterally conjoined cells ; disk epigynous, 

 very large, fungous, hollow, surmounting the ovary, which is 

 ovoid, 3-locular at the base for half its length, the septa extending 

 into 3 narrow wings upon the stoutish, free, central placenta 

 truncated at its summit, and there bearing 3 oblong suspended 

 ovules. 



4. S. brasiliensis, A. DO. Prodr. xiv. p. 622 (in nota). — S. 

 nigricans, Turcz. Bull. Soc. Hist. Nat. JSLoscou, torn. xxxi. p. 219 

 (1858). In prov. Bahia ad Igreja velha (Blancliet, 33G0 v. 3660): 

 non vidi. 



Its ligneous tortuous branches are covered by a whitish bark, 

 the young branchlets and leaves becoming black in drying ; leaves 

 alternate, lanceolate-elliptic, gradually narrowing at the base 

 upon the petiole, obtusely acuminate, oblique and inequilateral, en- 

 tire, punctulate, with opposite divergent nerves, sides often folded 

 together, coriaceous, 1 in. long, 6-8 lines broad, on a petiole 2 

 lines long ; racemes axillary, short, on a flattened peduncle, soli- 

 tary, geminate, or ternate, each bearing 3 sessile aggregated 

 flowers 2 lines long ; calycle and calyx \ line long, subpuberulous, 

 unequally 5-iid ; corolla urceolate, half-cleft into 5 somewhat 

 spreading segments ; structure of the ovary as in S. mexicana. 



5. S. obliquifolia, Turcz. Dull. Soc. Hist. Moscou, torn. xxxi. 

 p. 249 (1858) ; Benth. Linn. Trans, xviii. 678. In Brasilia, Serra 



