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Manihot ? A small tree, 12 feet high and 2 or 3 inches in 



diameter, the few short branches leafy and fructifei-ous at the ex- 

 tremities : leaves 3 to 6 inches broad, round-cordate in outline, 7-lobed 

 to much below the middle, the lobes entire, oblong-oblanceolate, with 

 a long setaceous tip : racemes short, axillary, few-fruited, the pedicels 

 9 to 12 lines long: capsule glabrous, 6 to 8 lines long: seed flattened 

 ellipsoidal, 5 lines long. — Hacienda San Miguel (201). 



AcALTPHA Caroliniana, Walt. — Same locality (133). 



AcALYPHA suBVisciDA. Perennial, the slender herbaceous stems 



1 to 2 feet high or more, branching, glandular-pubescent, as well as the 

 petioles and inflorescence : stipules linear, deciduous ; leaves ovate or 

 more usually lanceolate, acute or acuminate, cordate at base, coarsely 

 dentate, thin, nearly glabrous excepting the veins, 1 to 4 inches long, 

 about equalling the petioles : spikes terminal and axillary, unisexual, 

 loose, the staminate pedunculate, exceeding the petioles, the pistil- 

 late nearly sessile ; bracts reniform, with about 13 short ovate teeth, 



2 lines long in fruit or less : capsule subpubescent, muriculate above : 

 seed smooth, dark, | line long. — Near A. Scliiedeana and A. conspicua. 

 Hacienda San Jose (39). Younger specimens from Hacienda San 

 Miguel (17) seem to belong to the same species, though the bracts 

 of the young pistillate flowers are very small, scarcely exceeding the 

 ovary, and only 7-9-toothed, the middle tooth the lai'ger. In both 

 forms the fertile spike is often terminated by an abnormal pedicellate 

 flower, in which the ovary consists of two (sometimes one) distinct 

 cells lateral to the styles. 



Dalechampia scandens, Linn. — Hacienda San Miguel (222), 



Sebastiania (?), sp. A many-stemmed shrub, 6 feet high, the 

 specimens with undeveloped terminal flowering spikes and weather- 

 worn 3-celled capsules : male bracts biglandular, 3-4-flowered ; calyx 

 3-parted ; stamens 3, distinct, alternate with the sepals : leaves oblong, 

 acuminate, rounded at base, serrulate, 2 to 4 inches long. — Hacienda 

 San Miguel (S) ; called " Yerba de la fleche," the juice being used for 

 poisoning arrows. It has violent cathartic properties. 



Ficus ? A tree 40 or 50 feet high by G feet or more in 



diameter : leaves round-obovate, slightly narrowed to an abrupt base, 

 2 or 3 inches long by li or 2^ broad, on petioles 6 to 15 lines long: 

 fruit sessile, small (h inch in diameter), edible. — Hacienda San Mi- 

 guel, along gorges in the mountains (I); " Lageara." 



Ficus ? A tree resembling the last : leaves oblong-lanceolate, 



very acute at both ends, 4 to 6 inches long on a petiole 9 to IG lines 

 long : fruit nearly globose, 1 lines in diameter, on a very short pedicel 



