440 
3 Mexico, Vera Cruz (F. Miiller), Orizaba, Tampico, Misantla 
and other places. Costa Rica, near San Jose. Panama. 
25. SMILAX MOLLIS Willd. Sp. Pl. 4: 785 (1806). 
All the parts densely clothed with soft rufescent hairs, ba? 
leaves becoming glabrate. Stem slender, terete, unarmed. Petiole 
stout, 5-7” long. Blade elliptical, ovate or oblong-ovate, cordate, 
acute or obtuse and mucronate at the apex, 7-9-nerved, 3-5 
long, 134’—3’ broad. Specimens in Columbia College Herbarium, 
collected by Dr. Halsted near Jalapa, Mexico, have riers 
lanceolate, acute blades, 31%’-1034’ long and 1/-134’ wide. 
Peduncles stout, terete, 5-10” long, or even 14/’, densely mae 
flowered. Pedicels %4’~1” long. Bud of male flower obovoid, 
acute at the base, sometimes furnished with long hairs. Berries 
said to be red when fresh, appearing black in herbarium spect 
mens. 
South Mexico, Orizaba, Jalapa and elsewhere. Common 1 
the West Indies. 
26. SMILAX MORANENSIS Mart. & Gal. Bull. Acad. Brux. 9: 2 
(1842). 
Rhizome small, scarcely distinct from the lower part of ae 
stem. Glabrous. Stem terete, armed. Petiole 2’’—3", OF ioe pi 
times 8” long. Blade more or less ovate, obtuse or subco ee: 
at base, long lanceolate, with an acute tip, margins pee e 
late, 5—7-nerved, 2'/-314’ long, 5/’-19” broad. - Peduncle oy 
long, 9-15-flowered. Pedicels 2’"-4’ long. Receptacle i 
4" broad, ebracteolate. Berries black, globose, 2’’-3’” broa ae 
Mexico, between Chico and Chapula, on the peak of Oriza 
and near the city of Mexico. 
27. SMILAX MULTIFLORA, Mart. & Gal. Bull. Acad. Brux. 9: me 
1842). ed toa 
sit ee unarmed. Petiole 1’ long. Blade ovate, ae = 
minate, triple-nerved. Umbels densely many-flowered. ) 
cles 2/3” long, scarcely longer than the petiole. 3 
Placed by De Candolle among “species dubiz.” P ie - 
Said to have been collected in the woods at Chinantla, ay 
ince of Oaxaca. . 
28. SmiLax optusa Benth. Bot. Voy. Sulph. 175 (1845). es eu 
Glabrous. Branches angular, unarmed. Petiole 25 _ ont 
Blade coriaceous, oblong, more or less obtuse at base, OD! ‘i 
sng and 
_ often mucronulate at the apex, 5-nerved, 114-24’ long wane 
