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nate, acute or obtuse at base, coriaceous, glabrous ; cymes 3 to several-flowered, 

 or some of the peduncles rarely 1-flowered, the peduncles equaling or shorten 

 than the leaves ; calyx 5 to 7 mm. broad, the tube strigillose, the lobes rounded, 

 ciliate; petals white; fruit globose, 8 mm. long or larger, containing 2 or 

 more seeds. "Guayabillo," " pimientilla " (Tamaulipas). 



Palmer reports that this is a tree with compact crown, very thin, smootli, 

 whitish bark, and fragrant flowers. The wood is used for building huts and 

 for other purposes. M 



5. Eugenia rhombea (Berg) Krug & Urb. Bot. Jahrb. Engler 19: 644. 1895. 

 Eugenia foetida rhombea Berg, Linnaea 27: 212. 1854. 



Veracruz. Southern Florida and West Indies ; type from Florida. 



Shrub or tree, sometimes 8 meters high, with a trunk 30 cm. in diameter; 

 bark thin, smooth, light gray or reddish gray; leaves short-petiolate, ovate 

 or elliptic, 3 to 6 cm. long, obtuse-acuminate, acute or obtuse at base, coria- 

 ceous, pale, glabrous; pedicels fasciculate, 8 to 15 mm. long; calyx about 5 

 mm. wide, glabrous; fruit globose, about 1.5 cm. in diameter, orange, reddish, 

 or black, with thin dry flesh. 



Known in Florida and the British West Indies as " red stopper " and 

 '•' spiceberry." 



6. Eugenia mayana Standi., sp. nov. 



Type from Izamal, Yucatan (Gaumer 714; U. S. Nat. Herb. no. 571749). 



Branches terete, gray, densely puberulent when young ; leaves short-petiolate, 

 oblong-obovate or obovate, 2 to 3 cm. long, rounded or very obtuse at apex. 

 cuneate-attenuate at base, thin, puberulent, especially on the upper surface, 

 paler beneath, the margins revolute; flowers in dense axillary and lateral 

 glomerules, the pedicels 1 to 2 mm. long, puberulent, the bractlets minute, 

 rounded ; calyx about 1 mm. broad, puberulent, the 4 lobes oval, obtuse ; petals 

 about 2 mm. long. 



7. Eugenia sinaloae Standi, sp. nov. 



Sinaloa; type from Guadalupe (Rose, Standley d Russell 14793; U. S. Nat. 

 Herb. no. 637673). 



Shrub or small tree, the branches terete, gray, the young ones brown, 

 densely pilosulous ; leaves short-petiolate, oval or oval-obovate, 3.5 to 8 cm. 

 long, 2 to 4.5 cm. wide, rounded at apex, obtuse or rounded at base, minutely 

 pilosulous at first but sometimes glabrate in age, the margins plane; flowers 

 glomerate, but the inflorescence with a very short puberulent rachis; fruit 

 sessile or nearly so, red, 7 to 8 mm. in diameter, 1-seeded. " Guayabillo." 



The leaves are said to be used as a remedy for bronchitis. 



8. Eugenia origanoides Berg, Linnaea 29: 229. 1857. 



Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Tabasco, and Chiapas; type from Papantla, Veracruz. 



Slu'ub or small tree, 2 to 4.5 meters high, the branchlets fulvous-hirtellous ; 

 leaves short-petiolate, broadly elliptic to narrowly elliptic-oblong, 5 to 10.5 cm. 

 long, 2 to 5.5 cm. wide, acute or acuminate, acute to rounded at base, rather 

 thin, deep green above, paler beneath, finely hirtellous or pilosulous, in age 

 glabrate ; flowers white, sweet-scented, densely glomerate ; fruit 6 mm. in diam- 

 eter or larger, red or black, 1 or 2-seeded. "Escobillo " (Tabasco) ; " capulln " 

 (Veracruz; the fruit). 



Palmer reports that the edible fruit, which is borne in great profusion, is 

 sold in large quantities in the market at Tampico. The flowers are much 

 frequented by bees. 



