STANDLEY TREES AND SHRUBS OF MEXICO. 297 



1. Nectandra sinuata Mez, Jahrb. Bot. Gart. Mus. Berlin 5 : 402. 1889. 

 Oaxaca. Central America ; type from Guatemala. 



Tree, 12 to 15 meters liigli ; leaves oblong, obovate, or obovate-oval, 10 to 

 25 cm. long, petiolate, obtuse or acute, velvety-pilose; flowers large, white 

 within, red outside; fruit about 3 cm. long. "Aguacatillo " (Oaxaca); *' qui- 

 zarra hedionda " (Costa Rica), 



2. Nectandra reticulata (Ruiz & Pa v.) Mez, Jahrb. Bot. Gart. Mus. Berlin 5: 



404. 1889. 



Laurus reticulata Ruiz & Pav. Fl. Peruv. Chil. 4: pi. SJf8. 1802. 



Ocotea mollis H. B. K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 2: 164. 1817. 



Nectandra mollis Nees, Syst. Laurin. 287. 1836. 



Oaxaca and Veracruz. Central America and South America ; type from 

 Peru. 



Tree, sometimes 40 meters high ; leaves elliptic-oblong, 15 to 25 cm. long, 

 acute or acuminate, puberulent, with conspicuous venation ; flowers white. 



3. Nectandra pallida Nees, Linnaea 21: 510. 1847. 



Michoac5,n ; also reported from Mexico, the locality not indicated but prob- 

 ably in Veracruz. British Guiana. 

 Leaves lanceolate, about 11 cm. long, acuminate, tomentellous. 



4. Nectandra glabrescens Benth. Bot. Voy. Sulph. 161. 1844. 



Tepic to Guerrero, the type region. Reported from Central America and 

 Colombia. 



Tree, 8 to 14 meters high ; leaves lance-oblong to elliptic, 10 to 18 cm. long, 

 acuminate, lustrous ; flowers white. 



5. Nectandra nitida Mez, .Jahrb. Bot. Gart. Mus. Berlin 5:461. 1889. 

 Type from western Mexico, the locality not indicated. Panama. 



Tree, 12 to 15 meters high ; leaves ovate or elliptic, about 12,5 cm. long, 

 acuminate, sericeous when young, glabrate in age ; fruit subglobose, 6 mm. 

 long, 



6. Nectandra sanguinea Rottb. Act. Litt, Univ. Hafn. 1: 279. 1778. 

 Ocotea salicifoliaU. B. K, Nov. Gen, & Sp. 2: 166. 1817. 

 Ocotea gtobosa Cham. & Schlecht. Linnaea 6: 366. 1831. 



Tamaulipas to Tabasco. Central America and northern South America ; type 

 from Surinam. 



Shrub or small tree, sometimes 8 meters high, with a trunk nearly a meter 

 in diameter ; leaves lanceolate to elliptic, 7 to 15 cm. long, obtu.se to attenuate, 

 petiolate, lustrous ; flowers white or pinkish ; fruit globose, 1 cm. in diameter, 

 black. " Piesito de paloma " (Tabasco); "aguacatillo" (Tamaulipas). 



Specimens from Yucatan, reported by Mez as N. coriacea (Swartz) Griseb,, 

 probably belong here. N. loesenerii Mez. (Bull. Herb. Boiss. II. 5:243. 1905), 

 from Veracruz, is closely related, judging from the description. 



7. Nectandra rectinervia Meissn, in DC. Prodr. 15^: 158. 1864. 



Veracruz, Central America and northern South America ; type from Cumanfi, 

 Venezuela. 



Tree ; leaves elongate-oblong, 10 to 20 cm. long, long-acuminate ; flowers white 

 or lilac. 



8. Nectandra concinna Nees, Syst, Laurin. 322. 1836. 

 Veracruz and Oaxaca. Central and South America. 



Tree ; leaves elliptic or oblong, 9 to 16 cm. long, acute or acuminate ; flowers 

 white. " Angelino aceiteno " (Venezuela). 



