STANDLEY TEEES AND SHRUBS OF MEXICO. 1091 



1. BEFARIA Mutis; L. Mant. PI. 152. 1771. 



Shrubs ; leaves alternate, short-petiolate, persistent, entire ; flowers in ter- 

 minal panicles; calyx campanulate, 6 or 7-lobate; petals 6 or 7, ascending or 

 spreading, narrow ; stamens 12 or 14, the anthers opening by apical pores ; 

 capsule depressed, shallowly 6 or 7-lobate, septicidal. 



Branches of the inflorescence glabrous or nearly so 1. B. laevis. 



Branches of the inflorescence densely viscid-pilose. 



Petals 1.5 to 2 cm. long 2. B. discolor. 



Petals 2.5 to 4 cm. long 3. B. mexicana. 



1. Befaria laevis Benth. PI. Hartw. 65. 1840. 



Befaria glabra Mart. & Gal. Bull. Acad. Brux. Qi: 543. 1842. 



Puebla and Oaxaca ; type from Talea, Oaxaca. 



Branches glabrous or nearly so ; leaves oblong-lanceolate or linear-lanceohite, 

 3 to 8 cm. long, acuminate, glabrous, bright green above, glaucous beneath ; 

 flowers long-pedicellate ; petals pink, 12 to 20 mm. long. " Cruz de Mayo " 

 (Puebla). 



2. Befaria discolor Benth. PI. Hartw. 65. 1840. 



Befaria florihunda Mart. & Gal. Bull. Acad. Brux. m: 543. 1842, 



Jurgensia mexicana Turcz. Bull. Soc. Nat. Moscou 20^: 151. 1847. 



Guerrero and Oaxaca ; type from Talea, Oaxaca. 



Branches viscid-hispid ; leaves ovate or oblong-elliptic, 3 to 6.5 cm. long, 

 obtuse or acute, glabrous above, glaucous beneath and pubescent or glabrate; 

 petals spatulate, pink. 



3. Befaria mexicana Benth. PI. Hartw. 15. 1839. 

 Zacatecas to Sinaloa and Oaxaca ; type from Zacatecas. 



Branches hispid ; leaves oblong to oblong-elliptic, 2 to 5.5 cm. long, obtuse or 

 acute, glabrous above, glaucous beneath and pubescent, at least along the 

 costa. "Rosa del monte " (Oaxaca). 



2. I/ETJCOTHOE D. Don, Edinb. New Phil. Journ. 17: 159. 1834. 



1. Leucothoe mexicana (Hemsl.) Small, N. Amer. Fl. 29:57. 1914. 



Andromeda mexicana Hemsl. Biol. Centr. Amer. Bot. 2:282. 1881. 



Oaxaca ; type from Sierra San Pedro Nolasco. Guatemala. 



Shrub; leaves alternate, petiolate, persistent, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate 

 to ovate, 2.5 to 7 cm. long, long-acuminate, rounded at base, entire, glabrous; 

 flowers in small axillary corymb-like panicles, the branches puberulent; calyx 

 4 mm. broad, the 5 lobes broadly ovate ; corolla cylindric-urceolate, 8 to 12 mm. 

 long, white, minutely 5-dentate ; stamens 10 ; fruit a 5-lobed septicidal capsule. 



3. XOLISMA Raf. Amer. Month. Mag. 4: 193. 1819. 



1. XoUsma squamulosa (Mart. & Gal.) Small, N. Amer. Fl. 29: 66. 1914. 



Lyonia squamulosa Mart. & Gal. Bull. Acad. Brux. 9i: 542. 1842. 



San Luis Polosf, Veracruz, Puebla, and Oaxaca ; type from Cofre de Perote, 

 Veracruz. 



Shrub, 2 meters high or less; leaves alternate, petiolate, persistent, elliptic, 

 oval, or obovate-elliptic, 2 to 4 cm. long, rounded to acute at apex, leathery, 

 entire, lepidote beneath ; flowers in small dense axillary clusters ; calyx lobes 

 ovate, acute; corolla white, urceolate, 3 to 4 mm. long, lepidote; capsule 3.5 

 to 4 mm. long, subglobose, septicidal. 



