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Veracruz ; type from Jalapa. Eeported from Costa Rica. 

 Large tree; leaves oblong-lanceolate or oblong, 5 to 12.5 cm. long, acuminate, 

 coriaceous, glabrous. " Quechol aguacate." 



14. Phoebe effusa Meissn. in DC. Prodr. 15': 33. 1864. 

 Persea effusa Hemsl. Biol. Centr. Amer. Bot. 3: 71. 1882. 

 Veracruz. Central America. 



Tree, sometimes 30 meters high, with a trunk a meter in diameter, the bark 

 grayish ; leaves lanceolate to elliptic-oblong, 6 to 14 cm. long, acuminate or 

 obtuse ; flowers greenish, ill-scented ; wood light brown, moderately soft, light, 

 weak, fine-grained. " Sigua blanca " (Panama). 



15. Phoebe salicifoHa Nees, Linnaea 21: 488. 1847. 



Persea saUci folia Hemsl. Biol. Centr. Amer. Bot. 3: 71. 1864. 

 Known only from the type locality, Regla, Hidalgo. 



Tree, 6 meters high ; leaves lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 6 to 10 cm. long, 

 acuminate. 



16. Phoebe barbeyana Mez, Jahrb. Bot. Gart. Mus. Berlin 5: 209. 1889. 

 Known only from the type locality, Orizaba, Veracruz. 



Leaves elliptic, 8 to 11 cm. long, acuminate, glabrate ; fruit about 1 cm. long. 



8. OCOTEA Aubl. PI. Guian. 2: 780. 1775. 

 Trees or shrubs with coriaceous leaves; flowers in axillary or subterminal 

 panicles ; perianth 6-lobed ; perfect stamens 9, those of the first and second 

 series eglandular, the anthers introrsely 4-celled, those of the third series 

 minute or sometimes wanting; fruit at first inclosed in the indurate perianth 

 tube, later exserted. 



Flowers glabrous 1. O. cernua. 



Flowers pubescent. 



Flowers dioecious -. 2. 0. puberula. 



Flowers perfect. 



Anthers of the two outer series sessile, foliose, not contracted at base. 



Leaves mostly 3.5 to 5 cm. wide, obtuse or acutish 3. O. veraguensis. 



Leaves 7 to 15 cm. wide, acuminate 4. 0. perseifolia. 



Anthers of the two outer series borne on filaments, or sessile but conti'acted 

 at the base, not foliose. 



Leaves tomentellous beneath, broadly elliptic 5. O. rubriflora. 



Leaves barbate beneath in the axils of the veins, lanceolate or lance- 

 elliptic. 



Staminodia conspicuous, white-pilose 6. O. effusa. 



Staminodia none 7. O. klotzschiana. 



1. Ocotea cernua (Nees) Mez. Jahrb. Bot. Gart. Mus. Berlin 5: 377. 1889. 

 OreodapJine cernua Nees, Syst. Laurin. 424. 1836. 



Tabasco and Canipeche. Lesser Antilles ; Central America. 

 Tree, 6 to 8 meters high, glabrous ; leaves elliptic or oval-elliptic, 8 to 17 cm. 

 .ong, acuminate, petiolate. " Laurel de bajo " (Campeche). 



2. Ocotea puberula Nees, Syst. Laurin. 472. 1836. 

 Btryclmodaphnc puherula Nees, Linnaea 8: 39. 1833. 

 Reported from Veracruz. Widely distributed in South America. 



Leaves elliptic-oblong or lance-oblong, 7.5 to 20 cm. long, acute or acuminate. 



3. Ocotea veraguensis (Meissn.) Mez, Jahrb. Bot. Gart. Mus. Berlin 5: 240. 



1889. 

 Sassafridium veraguense Meissn. in DC. Prodr. 15 ': 171. 1864. 

 Chiapas. Central America ; type from Panama. 

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