STANDLEY TREES AND SHEUBS OF MEXICO. 1019 



Cuphea striguJosa Lemaire, Fl. Gewiichshiius. 1: 87. 1845. 



Cuphea strigillosa Lindl. Bot. Reg. 32: pi. Jf. 1846. 



Coaliuila to Guerrero, Chiapas, and Veracruz. 



Plants suffrutescent at base, sometimes 2 meters liigli, the brandies pubes- 

 cent and glandular-hirtellous or glabrate ; petioles 5 to 30 mm. long ; leaves 

 ovate or broadly ovate, 1.5 to 9 cm. long, acute or acuminate, rounded at base, 

 strigulose or sparsely pilosulous ; racemes often naked and paniculate, the 

 pedicels 2.5 to 10 mm. long; calyx IG to 23 mm. long, viscid-hirtellous, red, 

 yellow, and green. 



This species has been introduced into cultivation in Europe and the United 

 States. 



11. Parsonsia nudicostata (Hemsl.) Standi. 

 Cuphea mtdicostata Hemsl. Diag. PI. Mex. 52. 1880. 

 Known only from the type locality, "Ciudad Real." 



Stems covered with long purple glandular-setose hairs ; leaves lance-oblong, 

 5.5 to 7.5 cm. long, acute, strigose and hispidulous ; calyx 25 mm. long, glandu- 

 lar-pilose ; 2 dorsal petals 10 to 13 nmi. long. 



12. Parsonsia empetrifolia (Rose) Standi. 



Cuphea empetrifolia Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 5: 137. 1897. 



Known only from the type locality, Chilpancingo, Guerrero, altitude 2,650 

 to 3.000 meters. 



Slender shrub, the branches puberulent or hirtellous ; leaves subsessile, linear 

 or oblong, obtuse or acute, lustrous above ; flowers in distinct racemes ; calyx 

 15 mm. long, purplish, glandular-hispidulous ; petals purple, the 2 dorsal ones 

 8 mm. long. 



13. Parsonsia pinetorum (Benth.) Standi. 

 Cuphea pinetorum Benth. PI. Hartw. 74. 1841. 

 Veracruz and Chiapas. Guatemala ; type from San Ramon. 



Slender shrub, the branches puberulent-scabrous ; leaves subsessile, lanceo- 

 late, 2.5 to 7 cm. long, attenuate, obtuse to subcordate at base, scabrous; ra- 

 cemes leafy, the pedicels 4 to 7 mm. long; calyx 17 to 20 mm. long, viscid- 

 hirtellous, not colored; petals black-purple. 



14. Parsonsia chiapensis (T. S. Brandeg.) Standi. 



Cuphea chiapensis T. S. Brandeg. Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 6: 187. 1915. 



Known only from the type locality, Cerro del Boqueron, Chiapas. 



Shrub, the branches viscid-hirtellous ; petioles 7 to 15 mm. long ; leaves 

 ovate, 2 to 5.5 cm. long, acuminate, rounded at base, scabrous; calyx about 23 

 mm. long, hirtellous ; 2 dorsal petals 12 mm. long, red. 



15. Parsonsia Ixodes (Hemsl.) Standi. 

 Cuphea Ixodes Hemsl. Diag. PI. Mex. 52. 188(1 

 Described from southern Mexico, the locality not known. 



Petioles 1 to 2 mm. long; leaves ovate-lanceolate, 2.5 to 5 cm. long, scabrous 

 and hirtellous ; pedicels 6 to 10 mm. long ; calj'x 20 to 25 mm. long, glandular- 

 hispidulous ; 2 dorsal petals 8 to 9 mm. long. 



16. Parsonsia hookeriana (Walp.) Standi. 



Cuphea floribunda Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beechey Voy. 289. 1841. Not C. 



floribunda Lehm. 1831. 

 Cuphea hookeriana Walp. Repert. Bot. 2: 107. 1843. 

 Cuphea cinnabarina Planch. Fl. Serr. Jard. 5: pi. 527. 1849. 

 Cuphea roezlii Carri&re, Rev. Hort. 1877: 469. 1S77. 

 Cuphea pringlei S. Wats. Proc. Amer. Acad. 25: 149. 1890. 



