1020 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 



Sinaloa to Veracruz and Chiapas; type collected between San Bias and 

 Tepic. Guatemala and Nicaragua. 



Plants usually shrubby, sometimes 2 meters high ; leaves lanceolate or ovate, 

 2 to 11 cm. long, acuminate ; pedicels 2 to 9 mm. long ; calyx 10 to 22 mm. long, 

 bright red, viscid-pubescent ; petals purple. 



17. Parsonsia Uavea (Lex.) Standi. 



Cuphea Uavea Lex. ; Llave & Lex. Nov. Veg. Descr. 1 : 20. 1824. 



Cuphea harhigera Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beechey Voy. 289. 1841. 



Cuphea miniata Brongn. in Van Houtte, Fl. Gewachschaus. 2: i^l. 9. 1S4G. 



Chihuahua to Sinaloa, Zacatecas, and Oaxaca. 



Shrub, the branches strigose or hirtellous ; leaves subsessile, lanceolate or 

 ovate, 2 to 8 cm. long, acute or acuminate, obtuse to subcordate at base, 

 scabrous ; pedicels 2 to 4 mm. long, the racemes leafy ; calyx 20 to 40 mm. long, 

 green or purplish, grayish-hirsute ; petals bright red. " Hierba de San Pedro " 

 (Koehne). 



Forms of this species are frequently cultivated, and hybrids between this 

 and other species have been produced in European gardens. 



18. Parsonsia blepharophylla Blake, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 32: 100. 

 1919. 



Known only from the type locality, between Ixtagua and Agua Fria, Sinaloa. 



Leaves short-petiolate, lanceolate to oblong-ovate, 2 to 4 cm. long or larger, 

 acute, or acuminate, rounded or obtuse at base, very scabrous; calyx hirsute 

 with eglandular hairs, purplish; petals bright red. 



19. Parsonsia bilimekii (Koehne) Standi. 



Cuphea bilmekii Koehne in Engl. Pflanzenreich IV. 216: 155. 1903. 



Known only from the type locality, Orizaba, Veracruz. 



Branches pubescent and hirsute; leaves subsessile, ovate-oblong, 2 to 3 cm. 

 long, acute, rounded at base ; racemes short, leafy, the pedicels 2 to 3 mm. long ; 

 calyx purplish; petals purple. 



20. Parsonsia goldmanii (Rose) Standi. 



Cuphea goUmanii Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 12: 287. f. 28. 1909. 



Known only from the type locality, Comitan, Chiapas. 



Shrub, 1 to 2 meters high ; leaves elliptic or oval-ovate, 2 to 4 cm. long, ob- 

 tuse or subacute, rounded at base, scabrous above, hirtellous beneath, short- 

 petiolate ; calyx green ; petals dark red. 



21. Parsonsia amottiana Standi. 



Cuphea hracteata Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beechey Voy. 289. 1841. Not C. hrac- 

 teata Lag. 1814. 



Jalisco and Tepic ; tj-pe from San Bias and Tepic- 



Leaves subsessile, oblong or ovate, 10 to 15 mm. long, acute, strigose-hirtel- 

 lous; pedicels 4 mm. long; calyx 10 to 12 mm. long, short-hirtellous and setu- 

 lose; dorsal petals 7 mm. long, purple. 



22. Parsonsia lobophora (Koehne) Standi. 



Cuphea lohophora Koehne in Mart. Fl. Bras. 13^: 235. 1877. 

 Sinaloa and Jalisco to Morelos and Oaxaca ; type from Oaxaca. 

 Plants woody at base, 60 cm. high or less ; leaves sessile, linear to oblong 

 ovate, 2 to 5 cm. long, acute ; calyx green or purplish, hirtellous or scabrous. 



23. Parsonsia squamuligera (Koehne) Standi. 



Cuphea squamuligera Koehne in Mart. Fl. Bras. 13^: 235. 1877. 



Guerrero, Michoaciin, Morelos, and Mexico ; type from Morelia, Michoacan. 



