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unequal, the larger enfolding the smaller. — Banks of the Chocon. 

 The foliage closely resembles that of H. integerrima except in its pu- 

 bescence ; the fruit is more like that of H. thespesioides. It differs 

 from both in the lobed calyx and stipitate capsule. The cotyledons 

 are punctate with numerous black oil-cells, as in Gossypium, Ingen- 

 housia, and IViespesia, with which the genus should be placed rather 

 than with the Bombacece. 



32. Halicteres guazum^folia, HBK. On the Sierra Mico. 



33. Byrsonima crassifolia, Kunth. A cultivated tree at Yzabal, 

 20 or 30 feet high ; leaves loosely villous-tomentose beneath, nearly 

 glabrous above ; flowers abundant, yellow, turning red. 



34. BuNCHOSiA Lanieri. a tree, with the somewhat compressed 

 branchlets, the peduncles and pedicels, the petioles and lower surface 

 of the leaves canescent with closel}' appressed silky raalpighiaceous 

 hairs : leaves thin, elliptical or ellij^tic-lanceolate, acutish at both ends, 

 glabrous above, glandless, 4 to 7 inches long on petioles 3 or 4 lines 

 long : racemes solitary or in pairs, 3 inches long ; pedicels jointed near 

 the base, 4 lines long in fruit : calyx 8-glandular : drupe red, sub- 

 globose, 5 or 6 lines in diameter, slightly pubescent, 3-celled, with a 

 thin chartaceous endocarp, 1-3-seeded. — On the Camino Real near 

 Yzabal. 



35. Stigsiaphyllon Lupdlus. A vine, covered excepting the 

 glabrous upper surface of the leaves with a more or less dense sub- 

 tomentose pubescence of branching hairs : leaves rarely ovate, usually 

 cordate and deeply hastate-lobed, 4 or 5 inches broad, the lobes lanceo- 

 late, acuminate, entire or sparingly toothed, the basal divaricate or 

 ascending, the petiole an inch long, biglandular near the blade : pedun- 

 cles stout, exceeding the leaves ; pedicels 6 or 8 lines long in fruit : 

 stigmas foliaceous : samaras appressed-silky, 1 1 inches long, 3-costate 

 on each side, and the wing often with a dorsal tooth. — Scarcely woody, 

 running over the ground and climbing bushes in the clearings at the 

 Chocon plantation. 



36. HiR^A ? Leaves opposite, oblong-oblanceolate, shortly 



acuminate, cordate at the narrowed base, glabrous, shining above, paler 

 beneath, the midvein puberulent, without glands or with minute mar- 

 ginal glands near the apex, 4 to G lines long, the short petiole with a 

 pair of linear stipule-like appendages in the middle: inflorescence silky- 

 puberulent; peduncles solitary or in pairs, umbelliferous : calyx gland- 

 less ; petals concave, unequal, the larger shortly fimbriate, the smaller 

 one with glandular fimbri;e. — Much resembling H. fag i folia of Brazil. 

 Locality uncertain, but probably Chocon. 



