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The description of the fruit is drawn from ]•'. ('. Kallmann's No. 5502 from "Colum- 

 bia et Equador" as seen in Herb. Donnell Smith. 



This species 1ms a peculiar spreading inflorescence with dense clusters of flowers 

 and appears quite different from any of (ho other species. It was referred by Pro- 

 fessor Schumann as a variety of II. amer'ieaniis, but it appears to be specifically 

 distinct. 



3. Heliocarpus tomentosns Tnrcz. Hull. Soc. Nat. Mosc, 31, pt. 1: 225. 1858. 



A shrub or bush 1.8 to 7.5 meters high ; leaves ovate, acuminate, rounded at base, 

 crenately toothed, 7.5 to 15 dm. long, becoming glabrate above, densely stellate- 

 toinentose beneath; panicles large, bearing numerous flowers; pedicels becoming 

 rellexed; sepals 4, oblong, 5 mm. long, obtuse; petals shorter than the sepals; stamens 

 16; fruit densely pubescent and with a fringe of plumose hairs; body covered with 

 simple hairs; stipe slender, pubescent and bearing a few plumose bristles. 



Woods and dry hills of Mirador, Vera Cruz, K. \Y. Nelson, February, 1S!U <Nos. 70 

 and 119); near Orizaba, Vera Cruz, altitude 1,312 meters, C. G. Pringle, January 17, 

 1895 (No. 6106). 



This species originally came from near Mirador. 



Approaching //. pahneri but quite distinct. 



4. Heliocarpus trichopodus Tnrcz. Hull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 1858, 1: 220. 1858. 

 The type of this species, which conies from Galipau in the Province of Cara- 



casana, Venezuela, I have not seen. Here may belong Fendler's No. 1277 (at least 

 specimens in Herb. Cray) also from Venezuela and collected in 1854-5. 



++++ Sepals appendaged at Up. 



5. Heliocarpus arborescens Seem. Bot. Herald, 86. 1852. 



Leaves with long petioles, long-acuminate point and very soft dense pubescence 

 boneath. 



Not seen in fruit. 



I have seen in the Cray Herbarium a specimen of Seeman's which is probably a 

 part of the type. It came from Panama. 



6. Heliocarpus polyandrus Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 21: 420. 1880. 

 This species has never been collected in fruit. 



The type was obtained by Dr. E. Palmer in southwestern Chihuahua in 1895 (No. 

 100). There is a duplicate type (No. 1221) in the National Herbarium. Dr. Palmer 

 also collected the species near Alamos, State of Sonora, in 1890 (No. 629). 



7. Heliocarpus nodiflorus (Donnell Smith) Donnell Smith A Rose. //. jtoli/dndrit/i 



nodijiorus Donnell Smith, Bot. Gaz. 23 : 240. 1897. 



Trees; branches with both simple and stellate hairs, becoming glabrate; leaves 

 very large, even the upper ones 7 inches long, inches broad, broadly ovate, cordate 

 and somewhat oblique at base, acuminate, with obtuse and irregular serrations (the 

 lower ones glandular) very dark and finely stellate above, very pale and densely 

 stellate beneath, perhaps becoming nearly glabrate in age. 



Inflorescence a small panicle with pedicels or branches in nodose clusters, stellate- 

 pubescent; buds oblong, constricted at base, with appendages at tip small not 

 spreading; sepals 5, with small appendages near the tip; petals small; stamens 

 about 21 ; style 2-cleft at tip; fruit long-stipitate. the body 3 mm. in diameter, the 

 margins fringed with plumose hairs, the sides stellate. Besides a part of the type of 

 Mr. Smith's variety nodijiorus represented by Messrs. Heyde and Lux's plant from 

 Rio Pinula (No. 4329), we refer to this species the following collections: 



E. W. Nelson's plant from Guatemala, collected between Rodeo and Malacatan, 

 altitude 461 to 1,152 meters, .January 31, 1890 (No. 3742); E.Th. Heyde, Nos. 631 and 

 658 from Guatemala, collected in 1892. 



*■ -- Leaves appendayed <il base. 



8. Heliocarpus appendiculatus Tnrcz. Hull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 1858, 1 :225. 1858. 

 Leaves very large, broadly ovate, dark green, nearly glabrous above with a close 



