798 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 



Sinaloa to Oaxaca, Tabasco, and Veracruz. Cuba, Central America, and South 

 America ; type from the Orinoco River. 



Shrub, 1 to 3 meters high ; leaves short-petiolate, often nearly sessile, oblong- 

 ovate or elliptic-ovate, 5 to 9 cm. long, acute or acuminate, rounded or sub- 

 cordate at base, dentate, finely or coarsely stellate-pubescent ; calyx 1.5 to 2.2 

 cm. long, hirsute or finely stellate-pubescent; petals spatulate, red, longer than 

 the calyx ; gynophore long-exserted ; fruit 2 to 3 cm. long, about 8 mm. thick,, 

 finely stellate-pubescent. " Majagiiilla " (Veracruz, Ramirez); " tornillo "" 

 (Veracruz); " monacillo Colorado" (Oaxaca); " sacatrapo " (Tabasco); 

 " capitanejo " (Michoacan, Guerrero); " palo de capuUn " (Guatemala, 

 Honduras) ; " rabo de puereo " (Costa Rica) ; " cola de chancho " (Nicaragua) ; 

 " monecillo " (Guatemala); " guacimo torcido," "guacimillo," " torcidillo " 

 (Panama); " guacimilla " (Sinaloa). 



This, apparently, is the species reported by Sesse and Mocifio ^ as H, 

 isora L. 



2. Helicteres baruensis Jacq. Enum. PI. Carib. 30. 1760. 

 HeUctei-es mollis Presl, Rel. Haenk. 2: 139. 1836. 



Guerrero and Yucatan, and doubtless elsewhere. Central America and north- 

 ern South America ; type from Baru Island. 



Shrub, 2.5 meters high ; leaves short-petiolate, oval-ovate or elliptic-ovate,, 

 obtuse or acute, cordate at base, pale-tomentose beneath, denticulate ; flowers 

 numerous; calyx about 3 cm. long; petals red, linear, 4 cm. long; fruit 4 to 

 5 cm. long, fulvous-tomentose, the gynophore 8 to 12 cm. long, curved. 



This is related to H. jamaicensis Jacq., which is known in Porto Rico as 

 " cuernecillo," " huevo de gato," and " gato." 



3. Helicteres rekoi Stand]., sp. nov. 



Type from Pochutla, Oaxaca, altitude 100 meters (Reko 3443; U. S. Nat. 

 Herb. no. 842527). 



Branches slender, minutely stellate-pubescent ; petioles slender, 2 to 3 cm. 

 long; leaf blades broadly ovate, elliptic, or ovate-elliptic, 8 to 15 cm. long, 

 acute or abruptly acute, rounded or subcordate at base, dentate, thin, green, 

 nearly glabrous above, with scattered stellate hairs beneath ; calyx 2.5 cm. 

 long, muricate, minutely stellate-tomentulose, the lobes triangular, 6 to 7 mm. 

 long; petals oblanceolate, 4 cm. long; fruit about 7 cm. long, recurved, the 

 carpels straight, minutely stellate-tomentulose ; gynophore 5.5 to 7 cm. long, 

 glabrous. 



5. HERMANNIA L. Sp. PI. 673. 1753. 



Low shrubs or herbs, with stellate pubescence; leaves dentate, the stipules 

 foliaceous ; flowers small, axillary ; calyx 5-lobate ; petals 5, obovate, persistent ; 

 stamens 5, connate at base ; fruit a luculicidal 5-valvate capsule, the cells often, 

 cristate dorsally. 



Calyx large, inflated, nearly covering the capsule 1. H. inflata. 



Calyx small and inconspicuous, spreading at the base of the fruit. 

 Anthers 5 mm. long, nearly sessile; spines on the angles of the capsule 3 to 4 



mm. long 2. H. palmeri. 



Anthers 2 mm. long, on long filaments ; spines of the fruit usually 2 mm. long 

 or less. 



Flowers solitary in the axils 3. E. pauciflora. 



Flowers in axillary cymes 4. H. te^rana. 



' PI. Nov. Hisp. 157. 1887. 



