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rated from each other, rose or purple in color, and good to eat, although the 

 stone is very large in proportion to the size of the fruit and the amount of 

 flesh ; the largest are the size of a filbert. The leaves are like those illustrated ; 

 they are so different from other leaves that I have shown them here. The 

 largest of these leaves are a palm broad or larger, and some are smaller 

 At the time that wars were going on in Hispaniola and the other islands 

 and on Tierra-Firma, as the Christians did not carry with them paper and 

 ink, they used these leaves like paper. The leaves are green and tliick as those 

 of ivy ; the veins are red or purple and fine, and with a pin or sharp point one 

 can write anything on them, from one end to the other, while they are green 

 and freshly cut ; the letters resemble white scratches and stand out so well from 

 the face of the leaf that they are easily legible. Thus written upon, the leaves 

 were sent by an Indian wherever the Spaniards wished tliem to go. Although 

 the midvein of the leaf is rather large, the other veins are so small that they 

 do not interfere with the writing." 



3. Coccoloba grandifolia Jaeq. Enum. PI. Carib. 19. 1760. 

 Coccoloba puhesccns L. Sp. PI. ed. 2. 523. 1762. 



Reported from Mexico, the locality not stated. West Indies and the Guianas. 

 Tree, 12 to 25 meters high, with erect trunk; leaves orbicular or broadly cor- 

 date, 8 to 60 cm. wide, coriaceous. " Moralon " (Porto Rico). 



4. Coccoloba lapathifolia Standi., sp. nov. 



Type from Acapulco, Guerrero {Palmer 206; U. S. Nat. Herb. no. 1,010,048). 



Petioles 5 mm. long, finely puberulent ; leaf blades narrowly oblong or lance- 

 oblong, 14.5 to 18.5 cm. long, 5 to 5.5 cm. wide, deeply cordate at base, rounded or 

 very obtuse at apex, coriaceous, finely puberulent or glabrate on the upper sur- 

 face, the venation inconspicuous*, pilose or short-villous beneath along the costa 

 and lateral veins or finally glabrate, the venation prominent, the lateral veins 

 about 15 on each side; racemes terminal, 9 to 18 cm. long, slender, glabrous or 

 nearly so, rather densely flowered, the pedicels 3 times as long as the ocreolae. 

 glabrous ; perianth glabrous ; filaments exserted. 



5. Coccoloba lindeniana ' (Benth.) Lindau, Bot. .Tahrb. Engler 13:182. 1890. 

 Campderia Undeniana Benth.; Benth. & Hook. Gen. PI. 3:103. 1880. 

 Known only from the type locality, Teapa, Tabasco. 



Shrub ; leaves oblong or lance-oblong, cordate at base. 



6. Coccoloba liebmanni Lindau, Bot. Jahrb. Engler 13:189. 1890. 

 Colima to Oaxaca ; type from I'ochutla, Oaxaca. 



Leaves oblong-obovate or oblong, coriaceous, cordate at base. 



7. Coccoloba g'oldmanii Standi., sp. nov. 



Type from tlie valley of the Kio Fuerte. Sinaloa {Goldman 245; U. S. Nat. 

 Herb. no. 335744). 



Branches pubenj^lent at first ; ocreae 4 to 5 nmi. long ; petioles 12 to 15 mm. 

 long, densely puberulent ; leaf blades orbicular or nearly so, 5 to 8 cm. long, 

 rounded at apex, rounded or emarginate at base, thick-coriaceous, green on the 

 upper surface, puberulent on the veins, the costa and lateral veins slender, 

 prominent, the other venation inconspicuous, slightly paler beneath, short- 

 pilose, especially on the veins, the venation very prominent, reticulate; racemes 



' Named in honor of Jean Jules Linden, who was associated with Ghiesbreght 

 in botanical exploration of Mexico. He collected (about 1837-1839) in Yucatan, 

 Chiapas, and Tabasco, and perhaps elsewhere. He afterwards became the pro- 

 prietor of the famous nurseries at Ghent, once the property of Verschaffelt. 



