740 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 



2. Heliocarpus tomentosus Turcz. Bull. Soc. Nat. Moscou 31^: 225. 1858. 

 Puebla, Oaxaca, and "Veracruz ; type from Mirador, Veracruz. 



Shrub or tree, 4.5 to 9 meters high ; leaves large, broadly ovate, acute or acumi- 

 nate, cordate at base, not lobed ; flowers yellowish white, the sepals about 5 

 mm. long, not appendaged ; fruit (and bristles) 7 to 8 mm. wide. " Jonote " 

 (Veracruz). 



This, like some other species, has been reported from Mexico as H. ameri- 

 canus L. 



3. Heliocarpus tigrinus Hochr. Ann. Cons. Jard. Geneve 18-19: 123. 1914. 

 Known only from the type locality, Moreno, Michoacan, altitude 450 meters. 

 Shrub, 4.5 meters high, with glabrous stems ; leaves 5 to 15 cm. long, sharply 



serrate, cordate at base, green, thinly pilose beneath ; flowers yellowish green, 

 the sepals 5 mm. long; fruit not known. 



4. Heliocarpus glabrescens Hochr. Ann. Cons. Jard. Genfive 18-19: 122. 1914. 

 Known only from the original collection, from the Cordillera of Veracruz, 



altitude 1,000 meters. 



Branches glabrous ; leaves ovate, 5 to 11 cm. long, long-acuminate, rounded 

 at base, glabrous but penicillate beneath in the axils of the nerves, dentate ; 

 sepals 6 mm. long ; fruit not known. 



5. Heliocarpus donnell-smithii Rose, Bot. Gaz. 31 : 110. pi. 1. 1901. 



Heliocarpus caeciliae Loesener, Repert. Sp. Nov. Fedde 12: 227. 1913. 



Veracruz and Tabasco. Guatemala and Nicaragua ; type from Arenal, Guate- 

 mala. 



Tree, 7 to 9 meters high ; branches sparsely stellate-pilose ; leaves ovate or 

 lance-ovate, 6 to 15 cm. long, acuminate, subcordate at base, serrulate ; fruit 

 10 to 12 mm. broad. " Jolocin " (Tabasco). 



6. Heliocarpus velutinus Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 8: 317. 1905. 

 Known only from the type locality, limestone hills near Yautepec, Morelos, 



altitude 1,350 meters. 



Small tree ; leaves long-petiolate, about 15 cm. long, shallowly trilobate, 

 cordate at base, crenate, green and glabrate above ; fruit 5 to 6 mm. broad, the 

 bristles shorter than the diameter of the body. 



7. Heliocarpus pallidus Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 5 : 128. pi. 10. 1897. 

 Known only from the type locality, Acapulco, Guerrero. 



Shrub or tree, 3.5 to 7.5 meters high, the branches minutely stellate-tomentu- 

 lose ; leaves broadly ovate, 5 to 10 cm. long, sometimes shallowly lobate, long- 

 acuminate, serrate, rounded at base; sepals 6 mm. long; fruit about 10 mm. 

 broad. 



8. Heliocarpus terebinthaceus (DC.) Hochr. Ann. Cons. Jard. Geneve 18-19: 



125. 1914. 



Gretvia terebinthacea DC. Cat. Hort. Monsp. 114. 1813. 



Heliocarpus nelsoni Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 5: 128. 1897. 



Heliocarpus laevis Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 8: 317. 1905. 



Jalisco to Oaxaca. 



Shrub or small tree, 2.5 to 6 meters high, the branches stellate-tomentose ; 

 leaves large, cuspidate-acuminate, dentate, stellate-tomentose on both surfaces ; 

 sepals 4 to 5 mm. long ; fruit densely covered with plumose bristles. " Jonote " 

 (Oaxaca). 



9. Heliocarpus glandulif erus Robinson ; Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 5 : 127. 



1897. 

 Veracruz and Chiapas. Central America ; type from Santa Maria, Guate- 

 mala. 



