STANDLEY—TROPICAL AMERICAN PHANEROGAMS, 1838 
The collector states that the native name is “naranjillo,’ and that the 
flowers have the odor of orange blossoms. 
Forchammeria macrocarpa Standl., sp. nov. 
Branchlets yellowish, angulate, glabrous; petioles stout, 5 to 7 mm. long, 
minutely pilose or glabrate; leaf blades linear, 9 to 17.5 cm. long, 5 to 7 mm. 
wide, gradually attenuate to the base, rarely rounded, gradually narrowed to 
the acute or acutish apex, coriaceous, pale green, minutely hirtellous on the 
upper surface or glabrate, sulecate along the costa, densely short-pilose beneath, 
the costa prominent, the venation closely reticulate and prominent on both 
surfaces but more prominent beneath, the margin revolute; pistillate racemes 
few-flowered, glabrous, the pedicels in fruit stout, 10 to 15 mm. long; fruit 
ellipsoid-globose, about 1.8 cm. long, 1.2 to 1.5 cm. in diameter, glabrous. 
Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, no. 841145, collected in the vicinity 
of San Luis Tultitlanapa, Puebla, Mexico, in 1908, by C. A. Purpus (no. 3417). 
The only other species of Forchammeria with linear leaves is F. watsoni 
Rose, which ranges from Sinaloa to Baja California. In that the leaf blades 
are almost invariably emarginate at the base, less densely pubescent, and 
shorter, the fruiting pedicels are scarcely half as long, and the fruit is much 
smaller. 
Forchammeria lanceolata Standl., sp. nov. 
Shrub or small tree, 3 to 4.5 meters high, glabrous throughout, the branchlets 
slender, grayish, with numerous prominent pale lenticels; leaves simple, the 
petioles 4 to 6 mm. long, the blades mostly lanceolate but varying to ovate or 
lance-elliptic, 6 to 8.2 cm. long, 1.7 to 3.2 cm. wide, unequal at the obtuse base, 
acute or acuminate at the apex, coriaceous, pale green, lustrous, the costa 
salient beneath, the venation prominulous and closely reticulate on both 
surfaces; flowers axillary, solitary, fasciculate, or in very short few-flowered 
racemes, the pedicels stout, 6 to 8 mm. long; fruit broadly oval, 12° to 18 mm. 
long, 8 to 9 mm. in diameter. 
Type in the Gray Herbarium, collected somewhere in Mexico, in 1891, by 
CG. G. Pringle (no. 3728). 
Readily distinguished from the other species by the form of the inflorescence 
and the shape of the leaves. 
Steriphoma macrantha Standl., sp. nov. 
Branchlets stout, densely ferruginous-pubescent with stellate hairs; petioles 
slender, 4 to 10.5 cm. long, finely stellate-pubescent; leaf blades elliptic or 
elliptic-ovate, 14.5 to 27 cm. long, 5 to 10 cm. wide, acute or acutish at the base, 
narrowed to the acuminate or long-acuminate apex, membranaceous, green 
above, glabrous, slightly paler beneath, very sparsely and minutely stellate- 
pubescent or glabrate; racemes about 15 cm. long, densely many-flowered, the 
practlets linear-subulate, caducous; pedicels 3 to 4 cm. long; calyx about 2 cm. 
long, densely orange-pubescent with close stellate hairs, the lobes acute; petals 
2 to 2.5 cm. long, narrowly oblanceolate, acute or acutish; filaments 7 to 8 
cm. long; carpophore about 11 cm. long, glabrate; young fruit densely stellate- 
puberulent. 
Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, no. 716626, collected in forests around 
Pinogana, southern Darién, Panama, April, 1914, by H. Pittier (no. 6561). 
The flowers and leaves are nearly twice as large aS in the other species of 
the genus. 
Crataeva palmeri Rose, Contr. U. 8. Nat. Herb. 1: 301, 1895. 
This species is distinguished from all others of the genus by the copious 
pubescence. The type was collected at Armeria, Colima, but the species has 
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