STANDLEY — TREES AND SHRUBS OF MEXICO. 823 



Leaves entire 1. E. mexicana. 



Leaves serrulate 2. E. theoides. 



1. Eurya mexicana (Turcz.) Syzsz. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. 3": 189. 



1893. 



Freziera integrifoUa Benth. PI. Hartw. 6. 1839. Not Eurya integrifolia 

 Blume, 1856. 



Tristylium mexicanum Turcz. Bull. Soc. Nat. Moscou 31^: 248. 1858. 



Cleyera integrifolia Planch. ; Hemsl. Biol. Centr. Anier. 1 : 93. 1879. 



Cleyera mexicana Planch.; Hemsl. Biol. Centr. Amer. Bot. 1: 93. 1879. 



Ternstroeniia purpusii T. S. Brandeg. Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 6 : 187. 1915. 



Michoacan to Chiapas and Morelos ; type from Sierra San Pedro Nolasco, 

 Oaxaca. 



Small tree; leaves elliptic or elliptic-oblong, 4.5 to 13 cm. long, acute or 

 short-acuminate, obtuse or acute at base, lustrous, paler beneath ; pedicels 

 much longer than the flowers; sepals suborbicular, 3 to 4 mm. long, ciliate; 

 fruit ovoid-globose, 8 to 10 mm. long. 



2. Eurya theoides (Swartz) Blume, Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. 2: 105. 1856. 

 Eroteum theoides Swartz, Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ. 85. 1788. 

 Freziera theoides Swartz, Fl. Ind. Occ. 2: 972. 1800. 



Veracruz, Oaxaca, and Chiapas. West Indies and Central America. 



Shrub or small tree; leaves obovate-elliptic or elliptic-oblong, 4 to 18 cm. 

 long, acute or acuminate, acute or acutish at base, paler beneath, coriaceous, 

 yellowish green when dry ; sepals 3 to 4 mm. long, ciliate, sericeous outside 

 or glabrate; fruit globose-ovoid, 6 to 7 mm. long. "Tito" (Costa Rica). 



102. HYPERICACEAE. St. John's-wort Family. 



Shrubs or trees ; leave opposite, entire, usually gland-dotted, herbaceous, 

 estipulate ; flowers perfect, terminal, cymose or paniculate, sometimes soli- 

 tary ; sepals 5 or 4, imbricate ; petals 5 or 4 ; stamens numerous ; fruit bac- 

 cate or capsular, 3 to 5-celled. 



Besides the genera listed below, the genus Hypericum is represented in 

 Mexico by a large number of species, all of which are herbs. 



Fruit capsular ; petals 4, glabrous ; sepals very unequal 1. ASCYRUM. 



Fruit baccate ; petals 5, villous within ; sepals equal or nearly so — 2. VISMIA. 



1. ASCYRUM L. Sp. PI. 787. 1753. 



1. Ascyrum hypericoides L. Sp. PI. 788. 1753. 



Ascyrum crux-andreae L. Sp. PI. ed. 2. 1107. 1763. 



Veracruz, Oaxaca, and Chiapas. Guatemala, West Indies, and United 

 States. 



Glabrous shrub, usually less than 30 cm. high, much branched, the branches 

 compressed ; leaves obovate to nearly linear, 8 to 25 mm. long, obtuse, dotted 

 with black glands; flowers terminal and axillary, pedicellate, 12 to 18 mm. 

 broad, yellow ; outer sepals oval or ovate, 8 to 12 mm. long, green, the inner 

 narrow and shorter; stamens numerous; capsule ovoid, 4 mm. long, 1-celled. 

 "Arrayanilla " (Porto Rico). 



A decoction of the leaves is sometimes employed as a resolutive and astringent. 

 Purgative properties are ascribed to the seeds. 



