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ing above, dull beneath, acute, obtuse or mucronate at the apex, abruptly contracted at the 
base, finely crenate; stipules subulate, glandular-toothed, 3 mm. long; pedicels very 
short; hypanthium broader and shorter than in the preceding, 3 mm. deep and 5 mm. 
wide; sepals ovate, acute, 5mm. long; stamens about 20; filaments subulate; petals about 
15 mm. long, obovate. 
Type collected between Zimapan and San\José del Oro, Mexico, Schiede. 
DISTRIBUTION : Southern Mexico. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Bot. Reg. 30: £/.27,; Fl. Serres 4: 1.357 (both as Lindleya mespiloides). 
11. VAUQUELINIA Correa; H. & B. Pl. Aequin. 1: 140. 1808. 
Shrubs or small trees, with coriaceous serrate leaves, small deciduous stipules and 
corymbose perfect flowers. Hypanthium short-turbinate. Sepals 5, persistent, coriaceous, 
valvate. Petals 5, imbricate, deciduous. Stamens 15-25, inserted on the margin of the 
disk, subequal; filaments subulate; anthers didymous, versatile. Pistils 5, opposite the 
sepals, connate into a 5-celled, ovoid, densely tomentose capsule; styles 5, short, parallel, 
at last deciduous; stigmas capitate. Ovules in each cell 2, erect, collateral. Capsule 
woody, tomentose, at maturity forming 5 follicles, coherent at the base and splitting into 2 
valves ; seeds 2in each cell, erect, collateral, compressed and winged at the apex ; endosperm 
none; cotyledons plane; radicle straight, inferior. 
Type species, Vauguelinia corymbosa Correa. 
Lower surface of the leaves and the inflorescence glabrous. 
Petioles about equaling the leaf-blades ; hypanthium glabrous within. 
Petioles much shorter than the leaf-blades ; hypanthium hairy within. 
Leaf-blades linear or nearly so, 1 cm. wide or less. V. angustifolia. 
1. V. corymbosa. 
2, 
Leaf-blades oblong, about 2.5 cm. wide. 3. V. Karwinskyt. 
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Lower surface of the leaves and the inflorescence finely tomentose, especially 
when young. . V. californica. 
1. Vauquelinia corymbosa Correa; H. & B. Pl. Aequin. 1: 140. 1808. 
A tree, up to 10 m. high, and with a trunk 20-27 cm. in diameter; bark of the young 
drooping twigs red, that of the trunks shining, ash-colored ; petioles reddish, about as long 
as the blades, flat above ; leaf-blades coriaceous, glabrous, shining above, paler beneath, with 
numerous almost parallel veins beneath, lanceolate, about 5 cm. long and 18 mm. wide, 
sharply dentate, acute at each end; corymb shorter than the leaves; hypanthium glabrous 
on both surfaces ; sepals ovate ; petals oval, white, a little longer than the sepals ; fruit ovoid, 
pubescent, about 5 mm. long. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Actopan, Mexico. 
DISTRIBUTION : Hidalgo. 
ILLUSTRATION: H. & B. Pl. Aequin. 1: pl. 40. 
2. Vauquelinia angustifolia Rydberg, sp. nov. 
Vauquelinia corymbosa C. K. Schneid. Handb. Laubh. 1: 492, in part. 1905. 
A shrub, 3-5 m. high and trunk 5-10 cm. in diameter ; bark of the young ascending twigs 
glabrous and light greenish-brown, of the older branches chestnut-brown, more or less 
fissured and cracked; petioles 1-2 cm. long, glabrous; leaf-blades linear, 5-10 cm. long, 
coriaceous, shining, dark-green above, yellowish-green beneath, sharply dentate, acute at 
each end, strongly reticulate; corymbs rather small, glabrous; bracts subulate, 5-8 mm. 
long; hypanthium glabrous without, villous at the base within ; sepals ovate, nearly 2 mm. 
long, glabrous without, villous on the margins within ; petals orbicular, 4 mm. long; sta~- 
mens slightly shorter ; fruit ovoid, about 6 mm. long, densely pubescent. 
Type collected in the Santa Eulalia Mountains, Chihuahua, Mexico, in 1885, C. G. Pringle 5. 
DISTRIBUTION: Chihuahua. 
ILLUSTRATION: C, K. Schneid. Handb. Laubh. 1: f. 302 I-p (as V. corymbosa). 
3. Vauquelinia Karwinskyi Maxim. Acta Hort. Petrop. 
6: 236. 1879. 
A shrub, 2-3 m, high ; petioles about 1 cm. long; leaf-blades oblong, 7-8 cm. long, 2.5cm. 
wide, dentate, glabrous, light-green, strongly reticulate; corymbs many-flowered, glabrous; 
