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Punica Granatum Linn. Gra/ujifo. 



Cultivated at Merida, April, 1887 {^Millspaugh, 40 ; Valdcz, 3). 



RHIZOPHORACE^. 



Rhizophora Mangle Linn. Mangle. Tapche. 



Tree 20 to 30 feet high, abundant at the port of Silam, April 



MYRTACE.E. 



Calycorectes Mexicanus Berg. Pichiche. 



Tree 50 feet high, tiowers creamy-white, common in brush and 

 forest lands about Izamal, May to June (695). 



PsiDiUM Guajava Linn. Guayabo. Pichi. 



Abundant both wild and cultivated near Merida ( Z'lf/A/^:. g^). 

 Tree 30 feet high, abundant at the port of Silam. April (631). 



COMBRETACE^. 



Conocarpus erectus arboreus Griseb. Xkanclie. 



Tree 30 feet high, verv abundant at the port of Silam. April 

 (642). 



BucF.RA.s Catappa (L. ) Hitch. Ahnoidra. 



Tcrminalia Catappa Linn. Tree go feet high, common in cul- 

 tivation at Izamal, Feb. to March (470). 



ONAGRACE.E. 



Jussieua suffruticosa Linn. 



Shrubby, 10 feet high, common at Xcholac, Feb. (4+4)- 



UMBELLIFER.E. 



FcBniculum vulgar e Mill. Eneldo. 



Escaped to the campo south of Merida, April, 1887 {Mills- 

 paugh, 4). Cultivated at Merida {Valdez, gg). 



myrsinace.f:. 



Jacquinia armillaris J acq. Chacoicikax. 



Shrub 15 feet high, glabrous. Leaves rosulate at the tips ot 

 the branchlets or lateral, spatulate, rounded-obtuse, sessile, 

 coriaceous, margin revoliite, entire, light-green above, pallid 

 beneath, sparingly punctulate. Inflorescence in a terminal, nod- 

 ding, corymbose-raceme, peduncle about tlie length of the leaves, 

 pedicels the length of the peduncle, with an ovate-deltoid, ciliatc 

 scale at the base, glabrous. Calyx turbinate, persistent, the 

 lobes orbicular with a thin, white, chartaceous margin. Corolla 

 campanulate, the lobes ovate, entire, convex, thick, with a tliiii 

 membraneous margin ; appendages ovate, 3-ribbed above. Style 

 short, stigma capitate. Berry olive-shaped, sharply tipped with 

 the persistent style. Leaves, peduncles, and pedicels i inch 



