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9. Casearia orizabana Briq. Ann. Cons. Jard. Geneve 2: 67. 1898. 

 Type from Orizaba, Veracruz. 



Shrub ; leaves lanceolate, long-acuminate, densely punctate, serrulate, barbate 

 beneath along the costa but otherwise glabrous or nearly so ; inflorescence 

 densely pubescent ; calyx 2.3 mm. long ; stamens 8, the filaments glabrous ; 

 stigma entire ; capsule ellipsoid, 7 to 8 mm. long, glabrate. 



10. Casearia lindeniana Briq. Ann. Cons. Jard. Geneve 2: 67. 1898. 

 Known only from the type locality, Rio Teapa, Tabasco. 



Small shrub ; leaves narrowly lanceolate, long-acuminate, densely pellucid- 

 punctate, serrulate, puberulent on the nerves near the base but otherwise 

 glabrous ; inflorescence minutely puberulent ; calyx 3 mm. long ; stamens 8 ; 

 stigma entire. 



11. Casearia pringlei Briq. Ann. Cons. Jard. Geneve 2: 65. 1898. 



Sinaloa and Jalisco to Guerrero ; type from barranca near Guadalajara, 

 Jalisco. 



Shrub, 1.5 to 3 meters high or larger ; leaves 4.5 to 9 cm. long, short-petiolate, 

 rounded or subcordate at base, minutely serrulate, densely pilosulous beneath, 

 the venation reticulate and very prominent, densely punctate ; corymbs few 

 or many-flowered, densely pubescent ; flowers greenish yellow ; calyx about 

 4 mm. long ; stamens 8 ; stigma entire ; fruit ovoid, 1 to 1.5 cm. long, glabrate ; 

 seeds usually 2, with a red aril. " Crementinillo " (Michoacan, Guerrero, 

 Langlass4) ; " ciruela " (Jalisco). 



The aril surrounding the seeds is edible and is said to be of excellent flavor. 



12. Casearia dolichophylla Standi., sp. nov. 



Sinaloa to Chiapas; type from Picacho, Oaxaca (Put-pus 7447; U. S. Nat. 

 Herb. no. 877536). Nicaragua. 



Shrub or small tree, 1 to 5 meters high ; leaves short-petiolate, usually 

 obovate-oblong or elliptic-obovate, 5.5 to 10.5 cm. long, 2.5 to 4 cm. wide, 

 obtuse or rounded at apex, rarely acute, narrowed to the base, this acute to 

 subcordate, serrulate or subentire, thin, densely pellucid-punctate, densely 

 pilosulous beneath (and sometimes also above), rarely glabrate; inflorescences 

 few-flowered, short-pedunculate, 1.5 to 2.5 cm. long, minutely pilosulous ; calyx 

 4 mm. long, the lobes tomentulose outside ; stamens 8, the filaments pilose ; 

 appendages of the disk ligulate, placed between the stamens, less than half 

 as long as the filaments, pilose ; stigma entire ; fruit ellipsoid, 1 to 1.5 cm. 

 long, glabrate, subterete, yellow or reddish ; seeds about 4, surrounded by a 

 red aril. " Chilillo " (Sinaloa). 



The writer has referred here a large number of specimens, all of which 

 may not be conspecific. On the other hand, he is not altogether confident of 

 the segregates of C. nitida here proposed, or of those described by Briquet. 

 Some of the specimens referred to C. doUchophijUa have glabrous leaves, but 

 they do not appear to differ otherwise from the typical form. 



In Sinaloa the young branches are much used for making bird cages. 



13. Casearia spiralis Johnston, Proc. Amer. Acad. 40: 691. 1905. 

 Casearia honairensis Boldingh, Fl. Dutch W. Ind. 2: 68. 1914. 

 Lactia glabra T. S. Brandeg. Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 6: 369. 1917. 



Oaxaca. Curasao, Venezuela, and Colombia ; type from Margarita Island, 

 Venezuela. 



Shrub or small tree ; leaves slender-petiolate, oblong-elliptic to elliptic or 

 oval, 5 to 14 cm. long, acute or acuminate, crenate or subentire, thin, densely 

 pellucid-punctate, glabrous ; flowers few or numerous, glabrous, fasciculate, on 

 long slender pedicels ; sepals 5 to 6 mm, long, reflexed, very thin ; stamens usu- 

 ally 20; stigma entire; fruit globose, 1 to 1.5 cm. in diameter, glabrous. 



