1060 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 



2. Conostegia superba D. Don, Mem. Werii. Soc. 4: 317. 1823. 

 Conostegia macrophylla Naud. Ann. Sci. Nat. III. 16: 112. 1851. 

 Conostegia purpusii T. S. Brandeg. Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 6: 57. 1914. 

 Veracruz and Cliiapas. Central America ; Jamaica. 



Shrub or small tree, 4 to 5 meters high, the branches glabrous or nearly so ; 

 leaves ovate or elliptic-ovate, 15 to 30 cm. long, short-acuminate, rounded or 

 obtuse at base, 5-nerved, entire or nearly so, puberulent beneath along the 

 nerves but elsewhere glabrous ; panicles 10 to 15 cm. long ; buds glabrous, 6 to 

 7 mm. long; petals white, 5 to 6 mm. long. 



3. .Conostegia sphaerica Triana, Trans. Linn. Soc. Bot. 28: 98. 1871. 

 Michoacan to Chiapas; type from Teotalcingo. 



Tree, 10 meters high or less, glabrous throuyliout ; leaves lanceolate to ob- 

 long-elliptic, 5 to 17 cm. long, obtusely cuspidate-acuminate, atenuate or acute 

 at base, triplinerved, entire; panicles 3 to 7 cm. long; buds 6 to 8 mm. long; 

 petals white, 3 to 5 mm. long, erose. 



4. Conostegia arborea .( Schlecht. ) Schauer, Linnaea 20: 733. 1847. 

 Mclastotiia arhdiruiii Schlecht. Linnaea 13: 424. 1839. 

 Conostegia galeottii Naud. Ann. Sci. Nat. III. 16: 107. 1851. 



Veracruz and Oaxaca ; type collected between Tioselo and Jicochimalco. 



Tree, 4.5 to 9 meters high ; leaves ovate-oblong or elliptic, 10 to 25 cm. long, 

 short-acuminate, obtuse or acute at base, green, thinly furfuraceous-puberulent 

 beneath, 5-nerved; panicles few-flowered, 7 to 10 cm. long; buds thinly puber- 

 ulent ; petals white, 8 to 10 mm. long. 



5. Conostegia subhirsuta DC. Prodr. 3: 174. 1828. 



Veracruz and Oaxaca. West Indies ; Central and South America ; type from 

 Havana, Cuba. 



Shrub, 2 to 4 meters high; leaves elliptic-oblong, elliptic, or ovate-oblong, 8 

 to 20 cm. long, abruptly short-acuminate, rounded or obtuse at base, 5-nerved, 

 green, furfuraceous beneath along the nerves; panicles few-flowered, 10 cm. 

 long or less; buds furfuraceous or glabrate; petals white, 7 to 8 mm. long. 

 " Teshuate " ( Veracruz ) . 



6. Conostegia mexicana Cogn. in DC. Monogr. Phan. 7: 707. 1891. 

 Veracruz and Oaxaca ; type from Monte Pelado. 



Branches furfuraceous or stellate-setulose with rufous hairs; leaves elliptic- 

 oblong, 5 to 10 cm. long, short-acuminate, rounded to acute at base, setulose 

 above, puberulent beneath, especially along the nerves ; panicles few-flowered, 5 

 to 10 cm. long ; petals 7 to 8 mm. long. 



7. Conostegia xalapensis (Bonpl.) D. Don, Mem. Wern. Soc. 4: 317. 1823. 

 Melastoma xalapense Bonpl. ; Humb. & Bonpl. Monogr. Melast. 1 : 126. pi. 54- 



1816. 



Conostegia holosericea D. Don, Mem. Wern. Soc. 4: 317. 1823. 



Conostegia minutiflora Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 8: 327. pi. 11. 1905. 



Sinaloa to Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Tabasco, and Chiapas; type from Jalapa, 

 Veracruz. Central America and Colombia ; Cuba. 



Shrub or small tree, 1 to 10 meters high ; leaves oblong to lanceolate or 

 ovate-oblong, 7 to 20 cm. long, acuminate, rounded to acute at base, stellate- 

 tomentose above or rarely setulose, in age glabrous, pale beneath and covered 

 with a dense stellate tomentum, or rarely glabrate, 5-nerved ; panicles dense, 

 10 cm. long or less ; petals pink, 3 mm. long. "Capulincillo " ( Puebla, San 

 Luis Potosf, Oaxaca); " nigua " (San Luis Potosi, Puebla); " capulin " 

 < Veracruz, Puebla, Oaxaca); " serita " (Puebla, Oaxaca); " chicab " (Ta- 



