MALACEAE 639 
Len dark-green, glabrous and shining above, cori- 
aceo 12. C. succulenta. 
Leaf-blades gray-green, pubescent and dull above, sub- 
coriaceous. 13. C. Calpodendron. 
V. ROTUNDIFOLIA 
Leaf-blades (in our species) cu IHE or obovate: petioles 6-24 mm. 
long, glandular-serrate: fruit red, the flesh soft. 14. C. chrysocarpa. 
VI. BRACHYACANTHAE 
Leaf-blades oblong-lanceolate to ovate, crenate-serrate: corymbs few-flow- 
ered: fruit glaucous-blue, 8-12 mm. thick. 15. C. A UNO. 
. VIRIDES 
Leaf-blades membranous, ES hs to oval or rhombic-ovate, dark-green, 
shining and glabrous above; petioles 6—30 mm. long: corymbs many- -flowered : calyx- 
lobes entire or nearly so: 'fruit red or orange, the flesh 
hard, edible 16. C. viridis. 
Ri zd INTRICATAE 
Leaf-blades subcoriaceous, elliptic to ovate, glandular-toothed: petioles 6-30 
m. long: corymbs 3-7- xe. d, "he bracts glandular, deciduous: calyx-lobes lanceo- 
late, usually toothed towards apex: fruit greenish- -yellow to reddish-brown, 
orange, or red, the flesh ha rd. 
Corymbs and hypanthium usually villous or pilose-pubes- 
cent: leaves serrate or serrate and incised, 
Sepals not foliace P glandular-serrate : leaf-blades 
usually yellow-gre C. intricata. 
a Eg ndn iandulawaerkate: leaf-blades dark- 
Ls im g and scabrate above: bracts large and 
18. C, Harbisonii. 
Corymbs ne oana usually glabrous or nearly so. 
Lea d i Mere oo to ovate or rhombic-ovate, serrate 
19. C. populifolia. 
Leaf-blades oil or slightly obovate, varying to ovate- 
lanceolate or slightly oblanceolate. 20. C. mendosa. 
IX. FLAVAE 
eaf-blades membranous, oval, obovate, orbicular, spatulate, cuneate, or cuneate- 
spatulate: petioles 6—20 mm. long: corymbs few-flowered : ealyx-lobes glandular or 
glandular-serrate: fruit green to orange or red, the flesh usually soft, 
Leaf-blades oval, ovate to obovate or orbicular, 2-5.5 e 
ne _crenate-serrate to incised, abruptly contracted into 
etiole. 21. C. flava. 
Leaf-blades with a distinctly cuneate base 
Leaf-blades BE to spatulate or ` suborbicular, 1-4 
lon ounded or often somewhat truncate, en- 
tire, dentate to TERRE or lobed, somewhat tomentose 
nd bluish- -gree 22. C. Michauzii. 
Leaf-blades SDatHlaté or cuneate, 1-4 long, entire 
o serrate, rounded, pointed ‘or lobed, glabrous at 
maturity, yellowish- “green, : 23. C. floridana. 
po TENUIFOL 
Leaf-blades membranous, oval or ovate, often slightly pubescent: petioles a 
mm. long: young foliage usually Bronce cena corymbs nan wered: fruit red o 
pruinose-red, glabrous, the flesh succulent. . C. macrosperma. 
XI. CoccINEAE (Molles) 
Leaf-blades membranous to ns eous, oblong-ovate to broadly ovate: peti- 
20-35 mm. long: corymbs many-flow red: fruit usually red and pubescent, the 
flesh soft, edible. 
Hypanthium tomentose or pubescent. 25. C. mollis. 
Hypanthium glabrous or nearly so. 26. C. albicans. 
XII. PRUINOSA 
Leaf-blades membranous to ED broadly ovate, elliptic-ovate, or del- 
toid, blue-green, glabrous (with some exceptions): petioles 6-30 mm. long: young 
foliage a bronze-green: corymbs  many-flowered : ruit 
pru 27. C. pruinosa. 
XIII. OXYACANTHA 
Leaf-blades ovate, 3-15-lobed or cleft: çorymbs many-flowered : vids red: style 
and nutlet usually solitary: introduced s speci 28. C. monogyna. 
