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STANDLEY TEEES AND SHRUBS OF MEXICO. 1103 



2. POLYCODIUM Raf. Amer. Month. Mag. 2: 260. 1818. 



The other species are natives of the eastern United States. 



1. Polycodium kunthianum (Klotzsch) C. B. Robinson, Bull. Torrey Club. 

 39: 559. 1912. 



Vaccinium kunthianum Klotzsch, Linnaea 24: 56. 1851. 



Hidalgo and Puebla ; tj^pe collected between Pachuca and Real del Monte, 

 Hidalgo. 



Shrub, 15 to 60 cm. high, the branches hirtellous ; leaves subsessile, de- 

 ciduous, oval to elliptic-oblong, 1.5 to 3 cm. long, acute to rounded at apex:, 

 entire, hirtellous or glabrate, often glaucous beneath ; flowers in short leafy 

 racemes ; corolla campanulate, 4 to 6 mm. long ; stamens 10, exserted, the 

 anthers awned. 



Humbold, Bonpland, and Kunth referred the plant to Vaccinium staminemn 

 L. (Polycodium stamineum Greene), a United States species. The fruit in 

 this genus is not edible. 



3. MACLEANIA Hook. Icon. PI. pi. 109. 1837. 



1. Macleania insig'nis Mart. & Gal. Bull. Acad. Brux. O^: 531. 1842. 



Mountains of Veracruz and Oaxaca ; type from Mirador, Veracruz. 



Shrub, epiphytic or terrestrial, glabrous ; leaves subsessile, broadly ovate to 

 ovate-oblong, 3 to 6.5 cm. long, obtuse; flowers axillary, fascicled, reflexed; 

 calyx 5-winged, the limb with 5 short teeth; corolla red, tubular, 2.5 cm. long; 

 stamens 10, equal, the anthers not awned ; fruit a 5-celled berry. 



4. CAVENDISHIA Lindl. Bot. Reg. 21 : pi. 1791. 1836. 



Shrubs or small trees, terrestrial or epiphytic ; leaves persistent, coriaceous, 

 entire; flowers large, axillary or terminal, racemose or subumbellate ; calyx 

 limb 5-dentate; corolla tubular, 5-dentate; stamens 10, equal in length, but 

 the filaments alternately unequal, the anthers not awned ; fruit a 5-celled 

 berry. 



Inflorescence short, umbel-like 1. C. latifolia. 



Inflorescence an elongate raceme. 



Corolla 2 to 2.5 cm. long 2. C. acuminata. 



Corolla 1 to 1.5 cm. long. 



Leaves 2.5 to 4.5 cm. wide; petioles 2 to 4 mm. long 3. C. crassifolia. 



Leaves 4.5 to 6 cm. wide ; petioles 7 to 13 mm. long 4. C. chiapensis. 



1. Cavendishia latifolia Hemsl. Biol. Centr. Amer. Bot. 2: 273. 1881. 

 Type from Pueblo Nuevo (Tabasco ?). 



Glabrous shrub; leaves short-petiolate, broadly ovate, 10 to 15 cm. long, 

 7.5 cm. wide or less, acuminate, 7 or 9-nerved; flowers 12 to 16 mm. long, 

 long-pedicellate ; calyx pink ; corolla white. 



2. Cavendishia acuminata ( Hook. ) Benth. & Hook.; Hemsl. Biol. Centr. Amer. 



Bot. 2: 272. 1881. 

 'iThihaudia mcxicaiia Mart. & Gnl. Bull. Acad. Brux. 9': 530. 1842. 

 Thibaudia acuminata Hook, in Curtis's Bot. Mag. pi. 5752. 1869. 

 Oaxaca. Central and South America. 



Glabrous shrub ; leaves short-petiolate, oblong-lanceolate, 8 to 12 cm. long, 

 attenuate-acuminate, 5-nerved, paler beneath ; racemes loose, many-flowered. 



