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or in very short racemes, slender-pedicellate, the pedicels 2 to 5 mm. long; 

 fruit subglobose, 3 to 4 mm. in diameter, red turning black. " Capulln " 

 (Tamaulipas, Oaxaca, Veracruz); " yagalSn " (Oaxaca, Conzatti). 



The fruit is edible, but the pulp is very scant. The wood is useful only for 

 fuel. 



19. Eugenia mexicana Steud. Norn. Bot. ed. 2. 1 : 603. 1840. 



Eugenia macrocarpa Schlecht. Linnaea 5: 560. 1830. Not E. macrocarpa 

 Roxb. 1814. 



Veracruz ; type from Jalapa. 



Shrub or small tree, 4.5 to 6 meters high, glabrous throughout ; leaves 

 petiolate, broadly elliptic, 6 to 8.5 cm. long, 2.5 to 5 cm. wide, abruptly obtuse- 

 acuminate, obtuse or rounded at base, bright green above, paler yellow-green 

 beneath, thin ; racemes short and dense, 4 to 8-flowered, about equaling the 

 petiole, the flowers subsessile ; flowers about 8 mm. broad ; fruit 1-seeded. 



20. Eugenia deltoidea Standi., sp. nov. 



Type collected between San Marcos and Copala, Guerrero, altitude 60 to 

 150 meters {Nelson 2292; U. S. Nat. Herb. no. 569295). 



Branches terete, gray, the young ones compressed, brownish, glabrous; 

 petioles slender, 4 to 6 mm. long ; leaf blades elliptic-oblong to oval-elliptic, 

 5 to 6 cm. long, 2 to 3 cm. wide, very obtuse or rounded at apex, obtuse 

 at base, subcoriaceous, glabrous, brownish beneath when dry and densely 

 black-puncticulate ; inflorescence racemulose, dense, 1.5 cm. long or less, the 

 racemes with 10 or fewer flowers, the pedicels 1 to 3 mm. long, glabrous; 

 bractlets deltoid or rounded-deltoid, acute or obtuse; calyx 2.5 mm. broad, 

 glabrous, the lobes deltoid, acute to subobtuse, ciliolate; petals densely 

 puncticulate. 



21. Eugenia lindeniana Berg, Linnaea 29: 240. 1857. 

 Type from Teapa, Tabasco. 



Branchlets minutely puberulent ; leaves linear-lanceolate, attenuate to each 

 end, subobtuse at apex, thin, when young puberulent along the costa but 

 soon glabrous ; racemes slender, 4 to 6-flowered, about as long as tlie petiole, 

 the pedicels 3 to 4 mm. long, puberulent. 



Known to the writer only from the original description. 



22. Eugenia xalapensis (H. B. K.) DC. Prodr. 3: 276. 1828. 

 Myrtus xalapensis H. B. K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 6: 145. 1823. 

 Veracruz ; reported from Oaxaca ; type from Jalapa. 



Shrub or small tree, glabrous throughout; leaves petiolate, narrowly or 

 broadly elliptic, 3 to 5.5 cm. long, 1.3 to 3 cm. wide, abruptly obtuse-acuminate 

 or cuspidate-acuminate, acute or obtuse at base, dark green above, pale yel- 

 lowish green beneath ; racemes 3 to 9-flowered, short and dense, the pedicels 

 1.5 to 3 mm. long ; fruit subglobose, 8 to 14 mm. in diameter. " Reyiln " 

 (Oaxaca, Conzatti). 



23. Eugenia axillaris (Swartz) Willd. Sp. PI. 2: 970. 1800. 

 Myrtus axillaris Swartz, Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ. 78. 1788. 



Veracruz and Yucatan. Southern Florida ; West Indies and Central America. 



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

 bark thin, light brown, shallowly fissured; leaves elliptic or ovate-elliptic, 

 rather long-petiolate, obtuse or acutish, acute or obtuse at base, glabrous; 

 flowers in small dense clusters as long as the petioles or shorter ; corolla 3 to 

 4 mm. broad ; fruit globose, 10 to 12 mm. in diameter, the thin flesh sweet, aro- 

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