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The wood is used in Sinaloa for fence posts. It is not at all certain that 

 all the specimens referred here are conspecific, but without more ample ma- 

 terial (eight sheets have been seen) it does not seem advisable to attempt 

 any segregations. 



14. Eugenia karwinskyana Berg, Linnaea 29: 244. 1857. 

 Type from river banks near Huejutla, Hidalgo. 



Branchlets silvery-sericeous ; leaves oblong, 5 to 10 cm. long, 2 to 3.5 cm. 

 wide, acuminate, acute at base, thin, silvery-sericeous when young, glabrate 

 in age ; racemes 2 to 5 cm. long, 6 to 24-flowered ; sepals 4, 1 mm. long ; fruit 

 depressed-globose, 6 mm. in diameter. 



The writer has seen no specimens which agree with the original description. 



15. Eugenia rekoi Standi., sp. nov. 



Type from Cafetal Apango, Cerro Huatulco, Oaxaca, altitude 400 meters 

 (Reko 3356; U. S. Nat. Herb. no. 842489). 



Branchlets brownish, striglllose when young; petioles 2 to 3 mm. long; 

 leaf blades mostly cuneate-obovate, 4.5 to 6 cm. long, 1.5 to 3 cm. wide, 

 rounded or very obtuse at apex, cuneate at base, chartaceous, paler beneath, 

 very minutely striglllose. glabrate in age ; flowers glomerate or in very short 

 racemes with nearly obsolete rachis, the pedicels 2 to 3 mm. long, brown- 

 sericeous; caljrx lobes rounded, brown-sericeous. 



16. Eugenia hypargyrea Standi., sp. nov. 



Type from Ternera, Zacxiapan. Veracruz (Purpuft 6171; U. S. Nat. Herb, 

 no. 464686). 



Branches brown or gi'ay, the young ones compressed, sericeous ; petioles 

 very stout, 5 to 8 mm. long; leaf blades suborbicular to rounded-obovate, 6 

 to 10 cm. long, 4 to 6.5 cm. wide, broadly rounded at apex, subacute to very 

 obtuse at base, coriaceous, gi-een and glabrous above, densely covered be- 

 neath with minute whitish sericeous pubescence; flowers fasciculate or short- 

 racemose, the pedicels stout, 3 to 6 mm. long; fruit globose-oval, about 1 cm. 

 long, 1-seeded. 



17. Eugenia liebmannii Standi., sp. nov. 



Type from Villa Alta, Oaxaca (Liebmann 3969; U. S. Nat. Herb. no. 1012959). 



Branches slender, terete, grayish, the young ones brownish, compressed, 

 minutely puberulent ; petioles 2 mm. long ; leaf blades oblong-elliptic or el- 

 liptic, 1 to 2.2 cm. long, 0.7 to 1.2 cm. wide, rounded or very obtuse at apex, 

 obtuse at base, thin, glabrous, deep green above, paler beneath and black- 

 punctate; flowers fasciculate or racemulose, the rachis of the raceme 3 mm. 

 long or less ; pedicels very slender, 2.5 to 3 mm. long, puberulent, the bractlets 

 minute, rounded ; fruit depressed-globose, 5 mm. broad, 4 mm. long, 1-seeded. 



18. Eugenia capuli (Schlecht. & Cham.) Berg, Linnaea 27: 238. 1854. 

 Myrtus capuli Schlecht. & Cham. Linnaea 5: 561. 1830. 



Eugenia schiedeana Schlecht. Linnaea 13: 418. 1839. 



Eugenia capuli micrantha Berg, Linnaea 27: 239. 1854. 



Eugenia capuli macroterantha Berg, Linnaea 27: 239. 1854. 



Wugenia cali/corectoides Berg, Linnaea 29: 236. 1857. 



Tamaulipas, San Luis PotosI, and Veracruz; type from Papantla, Veracruz. 

 Guatemala. 



Shrub or small tree, 2 to 4.5 meters high, with slender branches and dense 

 crown ; leaves petiolate, lanceolate to elliptic, mostly 3 to 5.5 cm. long, obtuse- 

 acuminate, acute at base, dark green, usually glabrous; flowers fasciculate 



