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reddish stellate pubescence beneath; leaves rather thick ish and strongly veined 

 beneath; fruit globose, pubescent on the sides. 



The only specimen of this species which bears this name is Capt. John Donnell 

 Smith's (No. 1723) from Guatemala, thus distributed by him. Tt answers fairly well 

 the description and comes from a point not far from the type locality. This species 

 has heretofore only been known from the State of Tabasco, Mexico, where, it was 

 obtained by Linden. 



Here also I would refer the specimen collected by Ad. Tonduz in Talemania, Costa 

 Rica, in March, 1894 (No. 8561). 



-I * Stipe rcry short or wanting. 

 <- Fruit oblong. 



9. Heliocarpus glanduliferus Robinson in herb. 



A tree; stems slightly hairy, more or less densely clothed with reddish glands; 

 leaves ovate* to ovate-oblong, entire, rounded or slightly cordate at base, acute or 

 acuminate, densely and softly stellate beneath, darker and slightly pubescent above, 

 serrate, the lower teeth especially glandular; inflorescence a small panicle with the 

 pedicels or branches in nodose clusters; buds oblong, constricted at base, with 

 appendages at tip very prominent and spreading; sepals 5, linear, 6 mm. long, 

 appendaged near the tip; petals shorter than the sepals; stamens about 40; fruit 

 sessile, oblong, the body 6 to 7 nun. long, the margin fringed with plumose hairs, 

 the sides wrinkled and nearly glabrous. 



Collected by Sutton Hayes in mountains near Santa Maria, Guatemala, November, 

 1860, and since collected in the same country by Messrs. Heydeand Lux in 1892 near 

 Chupadero, altitude 5,000 feet, and distributed by Capt. John Donnell Smith under 

 No. 3956; also by Mr. E. W. Nelson near Yajalon. State of Chiapas, November 21, 

 1891 (No. 3400); and by Ad. Tonduz, Rio Torres, S. Francisco de Guadalupe, l'rov. 

 S. Jose, Costa Rica, altitude 1,000 meters, December, 1893 (No. 8453). While this 

 last plant is one of the numbers upon which //. polyandrus nodiflorm Donnell Smith > 

 is based, it is clearly distinct from the other number as well as from the species 

 //. polyandrus. 



In //. glanduliferns the pubescence of the branches is composed mostly if not 

 entirely of simple, somewhat crisped, hairs. The upper surface of the leaves has 

 somewhat similar hairs, but often 2, sometimes 3 to 4-branched at base; the upper 

 surface only a little darker than the lower, those of the branches always rounded at 

 base and rarely if ever oblique. In all the above points, besides in its very char- 

 acteristic fruit, it differs from //. vodifloms. 



Type in Herb. Gray and in National Herbarium. 



■+- ->- Fruit orbicular. 



++ Leaves becoming nearly glabrate, scarcely if at all paler beneath, mostly rounded at bane. 



10. Heliocarpus occidentalis Rose, sp. now Plate VIII. 



A small tree 4.5 to 9 meters high, the trunk 7.5 to 12.5 cm. in diameter; leaves 

 lanceolate to broadly ovate, rounded at base, palmately 5 to 7-nerved, long- 

 acuminate, somewhat regularly serrate, with obtuse teeth, thin, green and some- 

 what roughened but becoming glabrate above; paler, more strongly veined, and 

 somewbat stellate beneath ; flowers unknown ; inflorescence a lar-je spreading pani- 

 cle; pedicels i to 6 mm. long, jointed and breaking oil' near the base, with short 

 stellate pubescence; stipe none; fruit 12 to 14 mm. long, including the fringe of 

 plumose hairs; the body orbicular, 3 mm. in diameter, with rugose surface and 

 slightly stellate- 

 Collected by Dr. E. Palmer at Acapiilco, Mexico, December 1 to 31, 1890 (No. 440), 

 and at Manzanillo, Mexico (No. 986). 



Hot. Gaz. 23:240. 1897. 



