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8. Clidemia naudiniana Cogn. in DC. ISIonogr. Phan. 7: 990. 1891. 



Staphidium depeiidens Naud. Ann. Sci. Nat. III. 17:319. 1852. Not Cli- 

 demia dependens D. Don, 1823. 



Veracruz, Oaxaca, and Tabasco. 



Branches setose-hirsute ; leaves ovate or lance-oblong, 6 to 15 cm. long, long- 

 acuminate, 5-nerved, setulose ; cymes few-liowered ; calyx setose, the tube 3 mm. 

 long, the lobes 3 to 4 mm. long; petals white, 4 to 5 mm. long. " Colaci6n " 

 (Tabasco). 



21. BELLUCIA Neck. Elem. Bot. 2: 143. 1790. 



1. Bellucia macrophylla (D. Don) Triana, Trans. Linn. Soc. Bot. 28: 142. 

 1871. 



Blalcea macrophylla D. Don, Mem. Wern. Soc. 4: 326. 1823. 



Belinda superba Naud. Ann. Sci. Nat. III. 16 : 104. 1851. 



Reported from Tabasco; type from Mexico. Guatemala. 



Tree; leaves petiolate, ovate or broadly elliptic, 20 to 30 cm. long, abruptly 

 acute, 5-nerved, coriaceous, when young densely tomentulose beneath but soon 

 glabrous, entii*e; flowers axillary, solitary or fasciculate, long-pedicellate, 

 8-parted; calyx about 2 cm. broad, the limb divided into several lobes; petals 

 oblong, 2 cm. long; fruit baccate. 



A related species, B. costaricensis Cogn., is known in Costa Rica as " coro- 

 nlllo." 



22. BLAKEA L. Syst. Nat. ed. 10. 1044. 1759. 



1. Blakea purpusii T. S. Brandeg. Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 6: 58. 1914. 



Type from Cerro del Boqueron, Chiapas. 



Shrub, the branches terete, glabrate ; leaves petiolate, broadly elliptic, about 

 14 cm. long and 9 cm. wide, obtuse or abruptly short-acuminate, 5-nerved, en- 

 tire, when young densely furfuraceous-tomentose beneath; flowers axillary, 

 long-pedicellate, the calyx subtended by 4 bracts about 1.5 cm. long; calyx 

 tomentose, 6-dentate. 



23. TOPOBEA Aubl. PI. Guian. 476. 1775. 



Shrubs, erect or scandent, often epiphytic; leaves petiolate, 3 to 7-nerved, 

 entire, with numerous transverse parallel nerves; flowers 6-parted, axillary 

 or lateral, solitary or fasciculate, pink or white ; subtended at base by 4 free 

 or connate bracts; calyx campanulate, truncate or dentate; stamens equal or 

 nearly so, the anthers subulate; fruit baccate, 



Leaves 5-nerved ; pedicels mostly 5 mm. long or less 1. T. calycularis. 



Leaves 3-nerved ; pedicels mostly 10 to 15 mm. long 2. T. laevigata. 



1. Topobea calycularis Naud. Ann. Sci. Nat. III. 18:140. 1852. 

 Type from Zuluzu, Chiapas. Central America. 



Tree, sometimes 12 meters high, the branchlets tetragonous; leaves oblong- 

 elliptic, 8 to 13 cm. long, abruptly caudate-acuminate, acute at base, coriaceous, 

 glabrous; bracts coriaceous, appressed, rounded, 3 to 5 mm. long; calyx 7 to 

 8 mm. long, truncate and minutely 6-dentate; petals white or pink, ovate, 

 acutish, 8 mm. long. 



2. Topobea laevigata (Don) Naud. Ann. Sci. Nat. III. 18:150. 1852. 

 Blakea laevigata D. Don, Mem. Wern. Soc. 4: 323. 1823. 

 Melastoma laevigatum Schlecht. Linnaea 13: 428. 1839. 



