436 
nearly % the length of the petiole, margins denticulate or 
smooth. Blade oblong-ovate, acute or somewhat obtuse at base, 
or when older cordate, shining above, pellucid-punctate and line- 
olate, 7-9-nerved, the younger 114’-21%4’ long, the older 234’-34’ 
long and about as broad. Peduncles 2/’-5’’ long, 20-30-flowered. 
Ovary obovoid, 3-sulcate. Stigmas 3, linear, obtuse, erect or re- 
curved, about 1% as long as the ovary. Younger fruit only 
known, the berries are borne on pedicels about 5’ long. 
_ This species when the quadrangular branches are_ not seen is, 
according to A. DC., difficult to separate from S. zzvenusta and S. 
Moranensis. 
Mexico, around Orizaba (Botteri, No. 467), and the valley of 
Mexico (Bourgeau, Nos. 237 and 1131). 
7. SMILax CanpELARI@ A. DC. Monog. Phan. 1: 70 (1878). 
Branches terete, the younger densely rufescent-tomentose, at 
last glabrate. Petioles 3-5’ long, pubescent; stipular shea 
\%—¥% the length of the petiole. Blade oval, oblong or sr 
acute, obtuse at base and later subcordate, pubescent beneath, - 
sparsely tomentose on the nerves above, 7—II-nerved, opaque, — 
3%4’-8¥’ long, 14%’-434’ broad. Flowers unknown. Fruit-bear- 
ing peduncles 1” long, tomentose. Pedicels 4-5” long, pilose: 
Berries black, globose, nearly 5” in diameter, 1—3-seeded. 
8. SmILax coGNATA Kunth, Enum. 5: 175 (1850). 2 
Attributed by Kunth to Puerto Alegro, Mexico, is regarded 
by A. DC. as probably confined to Brazil, since no such place d 
as Puerto Alegro is known in Mexico, and Kunth’s specimens — 
were cutivated at Berlin. | ; 
9. Sminax corpirouia H. and B.; Willd. Sp. Pl. 4: 778 (1806). 
. Branches flexuous, subterete or angular, commonly unarmed, 
clothed, as also the leaves with white evanescent hairs. i 
_ 4-5" long; stipular sheath 1{-1% length of petiole, the margins 
denticulate. Blade firm but not coriaceous, ovate-acute, COM fs 
and broadly rounded at the base, cuneate near area mu- 
cronate at the apex, nerved, 214’-31’ long, 142 — arg 
Peduncles 5-9" id spare LE = = grag” long, 8 
serted among very small lanceolate bracteoles. Receptacle g of 
bose, 1%4”-1” in diameter. Berries black, 1—2-seeded, a pnts 
number. / | eo 
South Mexico, near Jalapa, La Bandanilla, Papantla and other 
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