292 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 
7. Hauya microcerata Donn. Smith & Rose, Bot. Gaz, 52: 46.1911. Ficure 50. 
Probably a small tree; young branches and buds with appressed, canescent pubes- 
cence; leaves long-petiolate, obovate to oblong-obovate, 7 to 11 cm. long, 4 to 6 cm. 
broad, shortly cuspidate, glabrate above, tomentose beneath; flowers sessile; calyx 
tube 8.5 to 10 cm. long, the segments 3.5 to 4 cm. long, with appendages 3 to 4 mm. 
long; petals oval, 33 mm. long; ovary velvety-pubescent, 11 mm. long; capsule 5 cm. 
long, the valves plane on the back; seeds unknown. 
TyPE Locauity: Santa Rosa, Department of Baja Verapaz, Guatemala. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: 
GuaTemaLa: Santa Rosa, alt. 1,500 meters, September, 1888, von Tiirckheim 
(J.D, Smith 1423). Cuesta de Quililhd, near Purulhd, alt. 1,400 meters, April, 
1905, Pittier 155. 
Mexico: Canjob, Chiapas, May 2, 1904, Goldman 923. 
The specimen from Mexico is referred here with some doubt. 
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Fig. 49.— Hauya cornuta. Fic. 50.— Hauya microce- 
Type. Natural size. rata. Pittier’s 156. 
Natural size. 
8. Hauya rodriguezii Donn. Smith, Bot. Gaz. 18: 3. 1893. Figure 51. 
Tree, 10 meters high, with a stout trunk; young branches slightly pubescent; leaves 
pubescent when young, soon glabrate except the angles, rhombic-oval to elliptical, 
11 to 12 cm. long, abruptly acuminate, narrowed or rounded at base, with 8 or 9 pairs of 
nerves; petioles 1 to 3 cm. long; flowers sessile, 13 to 15 cm. long; calyx tube 6.25 to 
7.5 cm. long, the segments of about the same length as the tube, with slender ap- 
pendages; petals oval, two-thirds the length of the calyx segments; ovary canescent ; 
capsule 5 to 5.25 cm. long. 
TYPE LocaLity: Acatepeque, Guatemala. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: 
GuaTEMALA: The type specimen, collected at Acatepeque, March, 1892, by 
J. D. Smith (no. 2529), 
9. Hauya quercetorum Donn. Smith & Rose, Bot. Gaz. 52: 47.1911. Ficure 52. 
Probably a small tree; old branches glabrescent, the growing parts somewhat hirsute; 
leaves large, orbicular to lanceolate, obtuse to acuminate, glabrous or nearly so above, 
