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(Yucatan, Oaxaca) ; " cuacamote dulce " (Oaxaca, Reko) ; " guh-yaga " 

 (Oaxaca, Zapotec, Reko). 



This species also has edihle tuberous roots, which are often cooked as a 

 vegetable. The starch is sometimes extracted. 



10. Manihot pauciflora T. S. Brandeg, Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 4: 89. 1910. 

 Puebla ; type from Santa Lucfa. 



Glabrous shrub, 2 to 3 meters high, with dark brown branches ; leaves 

 3-parted, the lobes broadly cuneate, about 1.5 cm. long; flowers solitary or 

 fasciculate, the calyx 2 cm. long; capsule nearly 2 cm. in diameter. 



Very unlike the other Mexican species, the leaves resembling those of some 

 species of Oxalis. 



11. Manihot olfersiana Pax in Engl. Pflanzeureich IV. 147": 55. 1910. 

 Known only from the type locality, in Oaxaca. 



Glabrous ; leaves 10 to 14 cm, long ; calyx 1 cm. long. 



12. Manihot rhomboidea Muell. Arg. Linnaea 34: 205. 1865. 

 Described from Mexico, the locality not known. 



Leaves 5 or 7-parted. 



13. Manihot caudata Greenm. Proc. Amer. Acad. 39: 82. 1903. 



Southern Chihuahua to Guanajuato and Michoacfin ; type from Batopilas, 

 Chihuahua. 



Shrub or small tree, 4 to 5 meters high ; leaves deeply 3 to 7-lobate, the lobes 

 3 to 15 cm. long, tipped with a mucro 1 to 2 cm. long; capsule 1.8 to 2.2 cm. 

 long. 



14. Manihot aesculifolia (H. B. K.) Pohl, PL Bras. 1: 55. 1827. 

 Janipha aesculifolia H. B. K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 2:107. pi. 109. 1817. 

 Yucatfln Peninsula; type from Bay of Campeche; Veracruz(?). 

 Glabrous; leaves 5 or 7-parted, 8 to 12 cm. long; calyx 1.5 to 1.8 cm. long, 



greenish. " XchachS " (Maya); " yuca cimarrona " (Ramirez). 



20. HUBA L. Sp. PI. 1008. 1753. 

 1. Ilura polyandra Baill. Etud. Gen. Euphorb. 543. 1858. 



Ignatia aniara Sesse & Moc. PI. Nov. Hisp. 21. 1887. 



Sinaloa to Chiapas, Yucatan, and Veracruz ; often planted ; type from Echi- 

 covia, Oaxaca. Guatemala to Costa Rica. 



Large tree, oiter 15 meters high, with a trunk 40 cm. or more in diameter, 

 the crown broad and spreading, the bark grayish ; branches and trunk often 

 provided with sharp spines ; leaves alternate, deciduous, long-petiolate, cor- 

 date-ovate, glabrous, crenate-deutate ; flowers monoecious, apetalous, the pistil- 

 late in thick spikes ; fruit depressed-globose, 8 to 10 cm. broad, about 15-celled ; 

 seeds flattened, brown, about 3 cm. long. " Ovillo " (Michoacrm, Guerrero); 

 "jabilla" or " habilla " (Yucatan, Veracruz, Morelos, Oaxaca, Guatemala, 

 etc.); " solimanche " (Yucatan); " haba de San Ignacio " (Oaxaca, Puebla); 

 " quauhtlatlatzin " " quauhayohuatii " (Herndndes) ; " pepita de San Ignacio" 

 (Morelos); " flrbol del diablo," "haba de Guatemala" (Oaxaca); "haba de 

 indio " (Ramirez); " tetereta " (Guatemala); "haba" (Sinaloa); " cua- 

 tatachi" (Rohelo). 



The Mexican plant has nearly always been referred to H. crepitans L., but 

 that species, which has a wide range in the West Indies and South America, 

 and extends into Costa Rica, probably does not reach Mexico. Strangely enough, 

 also, the plant has been reported in some Mexican publications as Strychnos 

 ignatli, a Philippine plant of a distantly related family. Hura polyandra dif- 



