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4 to 5 cm. wide; calyx tube 3 to 4 mm. long, the outer lobes 2 mm. long; 

 petals white, 3 mm. long. 



4. Clidemia deppeana Steud. Nom. Bot. ed. 2. 384. 1840. 



Melastanm petiolare Sehlecht. & Cham. Linnaea 5: 562. 1830. Not M. 

 petiolare Mill. 1768. 



Staphidium lindenianum Naud. Ann. Sci. Nat. III. 17: 314. 1852. 



Staphidinm gracile Naud. Ann. Sci. Nat. III. 17: 314. 1852. 



Clidemia jietiolahs Triana, Trans. Linn. Soc. 28: 135. 1871. 



Veracruz, Oaxaca, Tabasco, and Yucatan ; type from Hacienda de la Laguna, 

 Veracruz. Central America. 



Slender shrub, the branches setose; leaves 5-nerved, ovate or ovate-oblong, 

 6 to 15 cm. long, acuminate, rounded or subcordate at base, crenate-denticulate, 

 setose-pilose ; cymes lax, few-flowered ; calyx glandular-hirsute, the tube 3 

 mm. long, the lobes 1 to 1.5 mm. long; petals pink, 4 to 5 mm. long; fruit 



5 to 6 mm. in diameter. 



5. Clidemia laxiflora (ScMecht.) Walp. ; Naud. Ann. Sci. Nat. III. 17:376. 



1852. 



Melnstoma laxiflorum Sehlecht. Linnaea 13: 426. 1839. 



Tepic to Veracruz; type from Hacienda de la Laguna, Veracruz. Central 

 America. 



Branches densely spreadlng-setulose ; leaves slender-petiolate, ovate or ellip- 

 tic-ovate, 8 to 13 cm. long, acuminate, rounded at base, 5-nerved, densely setose 

 with long slender fulvous hairs, denticulate or subentire; cymes 3 to 9-flowered, 

 long-pedunculate, the flowers all or chiefly sessile ; calyx densely covered with 

 long yellow subulate hairs, the tube 3 to 4 mm. long, the lobes linear, 3 to 5 

 ram. long ; petals 6 to 8 mm. long ; fruit black. 



6. Clidemia hirta (L.) D. Don, Mem. Wern. Soc. 4: 309. 1823. 

 Mela stoma hirtttm L. Sp. PI. 390. 1753. 



Staphidium chrijsanthum Naud. Ann. Sci. Nat. III. 17: 310. 1852. 



Veracruz, Oaxaca, and Tabasco. West Indies ; Central and South America. 



Shrub, 0.5 to 1.5 meters high, the stems setose and stellate-puberulent ; leaves 

 ovate or broadly ovate, 5 to 10 cm. long, acuminate, entire or crenulate, 5 or 

 7-nerved, setose; calyx tube 5 mm. long, the lobes about 4 mm. long; petals 

 white, pink, or yellow, 8 to 10 mm. long; fruit blackish, 6 to 7 mm. long. 

 " Camacey," " camacey peludo " (Porto Rico); " grosella azulada " (Nica- 

 ragua) ; "mortiQo" (Colombia), " peluda " (El Salvador). 



The fruit is sweet and edible. 



Clidemia serrulota (Sehlecht.) Triana,^ the type of which came from 

 Huitamalco, although maintained as distinct by Cogniaux, appears scarcely 

 distinguishable from C. hirta and C. naudiniana, which are closely related to 

 each other. It is doubtful, also, whether C. dentata is a distinct species. 



7. Clidemia dentata D. Don, JHem. Wern. Soc. 4: 308. 1823. 

 Oaxaca and Chiapas. Central America to Peru. 



Shrub, 4 meters high or less, the branches setose-hirsute; leaves oblong to 

 oblong-ovate, 6 to 17 cm. long, long-acuminate, 5-nerved, unequal at base, setu- 

 lose ; cymes few-floweretl ; calyx tube 4 mm. long, the lobes 4 to 6 mm. long ; 

 petals 6 mm. long, pink or purple ; fruit 6 to 7 mm. long. 



* Trans. Linn. Soc. Bot. 28: 135. 1871; Melastoma serrulatum Sehlecht. Lin- 

 naea 13: 425. 1839; Staphidinm divaricatum Naud. Ann. Sci. Nat. III. 17: 315. 

 1852. 



