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lous on the upper surface and prominent on the lower; fruit obovoid, 

 about 2.5 cm. long and 1.5 cm. in diameter. 



Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, No. 567933, collected in the 

 vicinity of Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico, October, 1894-March, 1895, by 

 Edward Palmer (No. 399). 



A very well-marked species, distinguished from all other North Amer- 

 ican ones by its peltate leaves. At least two South American species have 

 peltate leaves, but they differ from the Mexican plant in other particulars. 

 One leaf of the type specimens of the new species is not peltate but is 

 deeply cordate at the base. The Mexican plant is a member of the sub- 

 genus Eucoccoloba. 



Coccoloba chiapensis Standi., sp. nov. 



Large tree; branchlets grayish, ferrugino-hirtellous when young; ocreae 

 5-7 mm. long, rufous-strigose ; leaves subsessile, the petioles 4 mm. long 

 or shorter, the blades elliptic, 12.5-20 cm. long, 4.3-8.5 cm. wide, cuneately 

 narrowed to the obtuse asymmetric base, acuminate or long-acuminate 

 at the apex, bright green, glabrous, the venation prominent or prominu- 

 lous on both surfaces; inflorescence about 25 cm. long, nearly sessile, the 

 rachis minutely puberulent, the nodes mostly 2-flowered; pedicels fully 

 twice as long as the ocreolae; perianth tube 1.2 mm. long, the lobes nearly 

 2 mm. long. 



Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, No. 884557, collected at Finca 

 Irlanda, Chiapas, Mexico, June, 1914, by C. A. Purpus (No. 7699). There 

 is another specimen of the same species in the National Herbarium (No. 

 884556), collected in Chiapas, without locality or date, by Purpus, and 

 numbered 7599. It matches the type exactly, and may be of the same 

 collection. 



The leaves are very different from those of any of the described Mex- 

 ican species. 



Fendlerella lasiopetala Standi., sp. nov. 



Low erect shrub, the stout branches covered with exfoliating bark; leaf 

 blades elliptic, oval-elliptic, or ovate-elliptic, 10-18 mm. long, 5-8 mm. 

 wide, acute or obtuse, densely strigose on the upper surface, beneath 

 densely white-tomentose and copiously pilose, the margins plane or revo- 

 lute; cymes about 1 cm. broad, dense; hypanthium and calyx densely 

 strigose, the sepals lance-oblong; petals undulate, copiously sericeous- 

 pilose outside; filaments subulate. 



Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, No. 570036, collected in San 

 Lorenzo Canyon, southeast of Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico, April 16, 1905, 

 by Edward Palmer (No. 535). 



The other species of the genus differ in having glabrous petals. Only 

 one species, F. mexicana Brandeg., has been reported previously from 

 Mexico. That plant, which is known only from Puebla, resembles F. 

 lasiopetala in the white tomentum of the leaves, but it has very sparse 

 pubescence upon the calyx. Fendlerella utahensis (S. Wats.) Heller, the 

 type of the genus, has been collected in the mountains of Chihuahua and 

 Coahuila. 



