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4. Bernardia aspera Pax & Hoffm. in Engl. Pflanzenreieh IV. 147^" : 24. 1914. 

 Tepic to Guerrero ; type from Acapuico, Gurrero. 



Leaves sliort-petiolate, ovate, ovate-oblong, or elliptic, 5.5 to 11 cm. long, 

 acute or acutish, very rough. 



5. Bernardia mexicana (Hook. & Am.) Muell. Arg. Linnaea 34: 171. 1865. 

 Hermesia mexicana Hook & Arn. Bot. Beechey Voy. 309. 1841. 

 Bernardia hrandegei Millsp. Proc. Calif. Acad. II. 3: 172. 1891. 



San Luis PotosI to Hidalgo and Puebla. Central America and Venezuela. 



Shrub, 1 to 3 meters high ; leaves oblong to orbicular-ovate, acute or obtuse, 

 coursely crenate-dentate, thick, densely tomentose beneath when young but 

 sometimes glabrate in age ; capsule densely tomentose. 



16. ADELIA L. Syst. Nat. ed. 10. 1298. 1759. 



Refekence: Pax in Engl. Pflanzenreieh IV. 147"^": 64-71. 1914. 

 Shrubs or trees, often with spinose branchlets ; leaves alternate, entire, short- 

 petiolate ; flowers small, dioecious, apetalous ; fruit a 3-lobate capsule. 



Leaves spatulate, 7 mm. wide or narrower 1. A. vaseyi. 



Leaves not spatulate, most of them 2 cm. wide or more. 



Leaves pinnately nerved, soon glabrate beneath 2. A. barbinervis. 



Leaves 3-nerved at base, densely pubescent beneath 3. A, oaxacana. 



1. Adelia vaseyi (Coulter) Pax & Hoffm. in Engl. Pflanzenreieh IV. 147''": 



69. 1914. 

 Euphorlia vaseyi Coulter, Contr. U. S. Nat Herb. 1: 48. 1890. 

 Western Texas, the type from Brazos Santiago ; collected also at Browns- 

 ville, Texas, and doubtless in Tamaulipas. 



Shrub, 1 to 2 meters high ; leaves 1.5 to 3 cm. long. 



2. Adelia barbinervis Schleeht. & Cham. Linnaea 6: 362. 1831. 

 Tamaulipas and San Luis Potosf to Oaxaca ; type from Papantla, Veracruz. 



Guatemala. 



Shrub or small tree, sometimes 6 meters high ; leaves mostly obovate, 4 to 

 9 cm. long, obtuse to acuminate ; capsule about 1 cm. wide. 



3. Adelia oaxacana (Muell. Arg.) Hemsl. Biol. Centr. Amer. Bot. 3: 129. 1883. 

 Ricinella oaxacana Muell. Arg. Linnaea 34: 154. 1865. 



San Luis PotosI to YucatSn and Oaxaca. 



Shrub or tree, sometimes 6 meters high ; leaves obovate, ovate, or elliptic, 

 2 to 7 cm. long, obtuse or short-pointed, velvety-pilose; capsule 1 cm. broad. 

 "Xtompac" (Yucatan, Maya). 



17. ALCHORNEA Swartz, Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ. 98. 1788. 



Reference: Pax in Engl. Pflanzenreieh IV. 147^": 220-253. 1914. 

 1. Alchornea latifolia Swartz, Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ. 98. 1788. 



Veracruz and Oaxaca. Central America and West Indies ; type from Jamaica. 



Tree, 8 to 20 meters high; leaves alternate, long-petiolate, ovate or elliptic, 

 11 to 27 cm. long, short-pointed, crenate-dentate, with minute scattered stellate 

 hairs on the lower surface ; flowers small, apetalous, dioecious, spicate ; capsule 

 1 cm. broad. "Palo mujer," "palo de puta " (Oaxaca); " achiotillo," " palo 

 de cotorro," " yobillo " (Porto Rico) ; " aguacatillo " (Santo Domingo). 



DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 

 Alchornea similis Muell. Arg. Flora 47: 434. 1864. Type from Sierra San 

 Pedro Nolasco. Probably synonymous with A. latifolia. 



