March 1937, Vera Cruz (F, US); Williams 8500, March 1937, Vera 
Cruz (F, M, US). 
Specimens filed hitherto in herbaria as (but now excluded from) Quara- 
ribea Fieldit: 
Standley 53137, December 6, 1927-March 20, 1928, Honduras 
(A, F, US). 
VERNACULAR NAMES: 
batidos; canela; coco-mama; madre de cacao; maha; majahas; xmahas. 
Quararibea Fieldii Millspaugh, which is somewhat 
larger in all its parts than Q. funebris, is apparently en- 
demic to Yucatan, British Honduras, and Honduras. 
Sterile specimens from Vera Cruz and Guatemala, how- 
ever, are very suggestive of Quararibea Field, and this 
species may extend to these western extremes. 
Of the many specimens of Quararibea Field which 
I have been able to examine, only one sterile collection 
has been excluded from the species. I refer to Standley 
53137 from Honduras, which is certainly not referable 
to Quararibea Field. A field note states that this col- 
lection was made from a shrub, whereas Quararibea 
Frieldu is a tree. Furthermore, the leaves of the three 
specimens of Standley 53137 which I have seen are ex- 
tremely narrow, linear-lanceolate and highly lustrous 
above. The shape and texture of the leaves suggest no 
species of Quararibea with which I am familiar and may 
represent an undescribed, shrubby species. At least, it 
is certain that this collection can not be referred to the 
large, broadly-ovate, dull-leaved Quararibea Field. 
Quararibea verticillaris ({Mocino & Sessé| ex De 
Candolle) Vischer in Bull. Soc. Bot. Genéve, s. 2, 11 
(1919) 204; Bakhuisen van den Brink in Bull. Jard. Bot. 
Buitenzorg, s. 8, 6, 2 (1924) 211. 
Type: Apparently not extant. Represented by a drawing of a Sessé 
& Mocifio collection: De Candolle, Calqu. dess. fl. Mex. (1874) t. 99. 
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