broader than filament, glabrous ad and abaxially, hypanthium 0.5 - 0.6 mm deep, glabrous 
outside, glabrescent inside, only two or three strips of scattered sericeous hairs coming from 
staminodes margins, pistil glabrous, ovary mm long; fruit ca. 7 mm long, 5 mm wide, ellipsoid, 
cupule ca. 6.5 mm long, 2.6 mm wide, pedicel 1.2 mm long, 0.6 mm wide, tepals persistent. 
Flowers and fruits present in April. In oak mixed forest, at 2400 m altitude. So far this 
species is known only from the central region of the highlands of Chiapas, Mexico. 
Paratypes. MEXICO. Chiapas: Mpo. Huixtan, Rancho Merced Bazon, between San 
Cristobal de Las Casas and Ococingo, 2400 m, (fr), F. Lorea 5515 (FCME, MO). 
The name of the species refers to the ampullaceous condition of the single pair of domatia 
present in the leaves. It is not the only species of neotropical Cinnamomum with this feature, but 
it is this character that distinguishes it from other species in this part of Mexico. 
The type of hairs present on twigs and lower leaf surface, along with the morphology of 
domatia in this species, relates it to C. alainii and C. hatschbachii. But C. ampullaceum is 
distinct in its lanceolate or narrowly elliptic leaves, the 6-7 pairs of secondary veins, and for 
having entirely persistent tepals in the fruit. See also comments under C. /eptophyllum. 
Cinnamomum areolatum (Lundell) Kostermans, Reinwardtia 6: 20. 1961. 
Phoebe areolata Lundell, Contr. Univ. Michigan Herb. 7: 13. 1942. Type. Mexico. Chiapas: 
Sierra Madre, Saxchanal, | July 1941, E. Matuda 4296 (holotype MICH!; isotypes A!, F!, 
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