1.9 mm long, glabrous, ovary 1 - 1.2 mm long, 0.9 - 1.2 mm wide; fruit (still immature) 8 - 8.6 
mm long, 5.2 - 5.8 mm wide, ellipsoid, cupule 5 - 5.3 mm long, 3.2 to 1.4 mm wide, no pedicel; 
tepals persistent. 
Flowers in May and June. Fruits ripe in November. In pine and oak - pine forest, at an 
altitude between 850 - 920 (1500?) m. 
Paratypes. MEXICO. Guerrero: Mpo. Chilpancingo, on the trail from Zoyatepec to 
Cerro de La Vaca, (fl), L. Rodriguez 333 (FCME, MO); 3.5 km N of Zoyatepec, 920 m, (fr), E. 
Martinez 2573 (MEXU); Barranca de El Toro, aprox. 3 km WNW of El Ocotito, 850 m, (fl), F. 
Lorea 5500 (FCME, MO). 
Type of indument suggests a relationship to C. kruseanum, but leaves mostly lanceolate 
with apex acute to acuminate, and particularly leaf base obtuse not amplexicaul, keep separate C. 
velvetii from that species. 
Cinnamomum zapatae Lorea-Hernandez, sp.nov. TYPE: Mexico. Guerrero: Mpo. 
Chichihualco (Leonardo Bravo), 3 km NE of Cruz de Ocote, between Filo de Caballos and 
Puerto El Gallo, 2250 m, (fl, young fr), 14 January 1988, F. Lorea 4172 (holotype, FCME; 
isotypes, FCME, MO). 
Arbores. Folia plerumque ovata vel late ovata, apice acutato vel breviter acuminato, 
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