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3. Corchorus hirtus L. Sp. PI. ed. 2. 747. 1762. 

 Corchorus pilolohus Link, Enum. PI. 2: 72. 1822. 



Sinaloa and Tepic and probably elsewhere. West Indies, Central America, 

 and South America. 



Stems pilosulous or glabrate ; leaves ovate to narrowly lanceolate, 1.5 to 5.5 

 cm. long, acute or acuminate, crenate, glabrous ; capsules 3 to 5 cm. long. 

 " Malva t6 " (Porto Rico). 



3. BELOTIA A. Rich, in Sagra, Hist. Cuba 9: 207. 1845. 



Trees or shrubs ; leaves 3-nerved, serrate ; flowers in terminal panicles and 

 lateral cymes ; sepals distinct ; capsule 2-celled, obcompressed ; seeds long- 

 ciliate. 



Leaves covered beneath with a very fine and dense, grayish, closely appressed 



tomentum, sometimes also stellate-pilosulous 1. B. grewiaefolia. 



Leaves loosely stellate-pilosulous beneath but without tomentum. 



2. B. mexicana. 



1. Belotia grewiaefolia A. Rich, in Sagra, Hist. Cuba 9: 207. pi. 21. 1845. 

 Belotia galeottii Turcz. Bull. Soc. Nat. Moscou 19: 504. 1846. 

 Veracruz and Oaxaca. Guatemala and Cuba ; type from Cuba. 



Tree, 9 to 24 meters high; leaves ovate-oblong to oblong-elliptic, '8 to 18 cm. 

 long, acuminate, rounded at base, serrulate, green above and finally glabrate; 

 sepals 6 to 10 mm. long; fruit 1 to 2 cm. long and somewhat broader, stellate- 

 pilose. " Yaco de venado," " patita " (Oaxaca); " jonote coyolillo " (Vera- 

 cruz); " guacimilla," " majagiiilla blanca," " ma jagiiilla macho" (Cuba). 



It is probably this species which is reported from Tabasco as " palencano." 

 The wood is said to be soft, but it is used for rafters and other objects. The 

 tough fiber of the bark is employed for cordage. 



2. Belotia mexicana (DC.) K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. 3': 28. 



1890. 



Grewia mexicana DC. Prodr. 1: 510. 1824. 



? Belotia insignis Baill. Adansonia 10: 182. 1872. 



Tepic to Oaxaca. 



Tree, 5 to 6 meters high ; leaves lance-oblong to broadly elliptic, 7 to 18 cm. 

 long, obtuse or acute, velutinous or in age glabrate on the upper surface, serru- 

 late ; flowers purplish, the sepals 10 to 12 mm. long ; fruit about 2 cm. long and 

 2.5 cm. wide, densely pilose. "Yaco de cal," "yaco venado" (Oaxaca). 



It is perhaps this species which is reported from Chiapas by Ramirez with 

 the vernacular name " capulincillo," but that name (which would indicate a 

 fleshy fruit) is scarcely applicable to a plant of this genus. 



4. LUEHEA Willd. Ges. Naturf. Freund. Berlin Neue Schrift. 3: 410, 1801. 



Shrubs or trees; leaves dentate, 3 or 5-nerved; flowers large and showy, 

 white, in axillary cymes, the calyx subtended by numerous bractlets ; sepals 5 ; 

 capsule large, woody, 5-celled, usually 5-angulate, many-seeded. 



Bractlets linear, flnely pilosulous within ; fruit obtusely angulate. 



1. L. speciosa. 

 Bractlets lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, pilose-barbate within along the costa ; 



fruit acutely angulate 2. L. Candida. 



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