Two new species of edible fruits from Mexico 
H. H. RusBy 
Mayepea macrocarpa sp. nov. 
A shrub about a meter high, with elongated, slender branches, 
which droop or partly recline on adjacent shrubbery. Fruiting 
branchlets short, stout, brown; petioles 5-10 mm. long, stout; 
blades 5-10 cm. long, 3-7 cm. broad, oval to obovate, obtuse or 
subrotund at the base and ending in a very slightly produced, 
blunt summit, entire, tomentellate underneath, nearly glabrous 
above, the venation slightly prominent underneath, the principal 
secondaries about 6 or 8 pairs, with smaller intermediate ones; 
fruits mostly about 6 to 12, in short, broad, paniculate cymes, at 
the ends of short stout branchlets borne near the ends of the 
branches; pedicels very short, mostly broader than long; drupes 
olivelike, 2-2.5 cm. long and two thirds as broad, ellipsoidal, 
umbilicate at the base, deep bluish purple, smooth; stone crusta- 
ceous, slightly sulcate, occupying about two thirds of the length 
and diameter of the drupe. 
The single specimen seen bore only mature fruit. 
Limon Mt., near Balsas, Guerrero, Mexico, at an altitude of 
about 1400 m., July 2, 1910. Collected by the author. 
Morus mollis sp. nov. 
A small, spreading, intricately branching tree, resembling 
M. alba, about 4.5 m. high, the trunk nearly 3 dm. in diameter; 
branches elongated, slender, tough; stipules not seen; twigs and 
petioles light reddish brown, puberulent when young; petioles 
7-15 mm. long, nearly terete, stoutish; blades 3-10 cm. long, 2-6 
cm. broad, ovate, equilateral, rounded at the base, abruptly con- 
tracted at the summit into an acutely tapering point; margin en- 
tire; venation pinnate, prominent on the lower surface, the secon- 
daries about 10-12 on a side, strongly interarching close to the 
margin and connected by the tertiaries; both surfaces tomentellate, 
the lower one more so; aments (only pistillate seen) solitary in the 
axils, the recurved peduncles rather slender and about half as long 
as the aments. Immature fruits broader than long, when mature 
rather longer than broad, 1-3 cm. long, pale pinkish yellow, having 
the appearance of a raspberry, soft and juicy, of weak flavor and 
only moderately sweet. 
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