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soon becoming glabrate and shining above, scarcely paler beneath, ob- 

 lanceolate or narrowly obovate, subcuneate at the base, obtuse, rounded 

 or even retuse at the apex, 6 to 12 cm. long, 2^ to o^ cm. broad, the 

 veins prominent beneath, the veinlets inconspicuously reticulated ; petioles 

 appressed-pubescent, 9 to 15 mm. long : flowers solitary or in clusters of 

 2 or 3, above the axils ; peduncles appressed-pubescent, 1 or 2 cm. long : 

 sepals 5, suborbicular, obtuse, imbricated, ferruginous-pubescent, 5^ mm. 

 long : corolla twice as long as the calyx, cylindric-campanulate, deeply 

 cleft into 5 (or 7) oblong obtuse lobes, puberulent, and appressed-ferru- 

 ginous outside: stamens and staminodia equally inserted at the top of the 

 corolla-tube, the stamens on short filaments equalling the anthers ; the 

 staminodia linear-subulate, about equalling the stamens : ovary pubescent, 

 5-celled : fruit short-oblong or globular, 3 cm. long, sinuately 5-lobed 

 (by abortion 4- or even 1-locular), yellow when ripe; seed 2^ cm. long, 

 ellipsoidal, laterally compressed, the testa straw-colored and shining, the 

 ventral hilum elongated-oblong. — Acapulco, January, 1895 (no. 386). 

 Called " Huicon," and the yellow fruit eaten. The seed places this plant 

 in De Candolle's section Guapeba, but the 5-parted calyx and corolla 

 throw it out of that section and place it near L. Hivicoa, Gfertn., or 

 L. nervosa, DC, in neither of which, however, is the seed laterally com- 

 pressed. Dr. Palmer's no. 1346 from Manzanillo, described by Dr. Rose 

 without a name (Contrib. Nat. Herb. i. 339), may be a form of this species 

 with much longer leaves and petioles. 



Maba albens, Hiern, Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc. xii. 126. A shrub 

 2 or 3 m. high : stems few, about 2h cm. in diameter, covered with 

 smooth pale bark : branches covered with rough reddish-brown bark : 

 leaves subcoriaceous, alternate, broadly oblanceolate, 5 to 9 cm. long, 

 2 to 3 cm. broad, blunt or rounded at the apex, tapering below to a 

 short petiole a line or so long, minutely strigillose-pubescent beneath, 

 above puberulous, becoming smooth and shining ; margins entire, revo- 

 lute ; midribs slightly depressed above, prominent beneath : fruit solitary 

 on thick peduncles 2 mm. long, subglobose, 2 or 3 cm. in diameter, 

 minutely appressed-pubescent, especially about the persistent base of the 

 style; skin thin, greenish yellow; pulp edible: seeds 6, about 1^ cm. 

 long, 8 mm. broad, and 6 mm. thick ; albumen equable : fruiting calyx 

 spreading, 1^ cm. across, 3-fid, densely appressed-pubescent within, spar- 

 ingly so without ; lobes broadly ovate, 6 to 9 mm. broad, the margins and 

 tips recurved. — Acapulco, January, 1895 (no. 372). The yellow fruit 

 eaten under the name " Coacollutillo." Maba albens has been known 

 only from the flowering specimens, and Dr. Palmer's plant has therefore 



