1104 CONTEIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 



3. Cavendishia crassifolia (Benth.) Hemsl. Biol. Centr. Amer. Bot. 2: 273. 



1881. 



Thibaudia crassifolia Beutli. PI. Hartw. 65. 1841. 



Oaxaca and Chiapas ; type from Totontepec, Oaxaca. Guatemala. 



Glabrous shnih ; leaves; ovate to olilonx-lanceolate, 5 to 10 cm. long, long- 

 acuminate, rounded at base, 5-nerved, lustrous ; racemes many-fiowered, the 

 flowers long-pedicellate. 



4. Cavendishia chiapensis T. S. Brandeg. Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 6: 188. 1915. 

 Type from Cerro del Boqueron, Chiapas. 



Glabrous epiphytic shrub ; leaves oblong-ovate, 12 to 15 cm. long, 5 or 7- 

 nerved, coriaceous ; racemes 3 to 5.5 cm. long, the flowers long-pedicellate ; 

 corolla pale red, 1.5 cm. long ; fruit 8 mm. in diameter. 



13i. THEOPHRASTACEAE. Theophrasta Family. 



PiEFEBENCE : Mez in Engl. Pflanzenreich IV. 336a. 1903. 



Shrubs or trees; leaves alternate or pseudoverticellate, entire or serrate, 

 estipulate; flowers perfect, racemose or umbellate, regular, usually 5-parted; 

 calyx lobes free or short-connate, imbricate, rounded at apex; corolla 

 gamopetalous, rotate or funnelform, fleshy ; stamens 5, 5 staminodia also pres- 

 ent ; style simple, the stigma entii'e or nearly so; fruit baccate or drupaceous. 



Staminodia ligulate; leaves not spine-tipped 1. DEHERAINIA. 



Staminodia petal-like; leaves spine-tipped 2. JACQUINIA. 



1. DEHEBAINIA Decaisne, Ann. Sci. Nat. VI. 3: 138. 1876. 



One other species is known, a native of Cuba. 



1. Deherainia smaragdina (Planch.) Decaisne, Ann. Sci. Nat. VI. 3: 139. 

 pi. 12. 1876. 



Jacquinin smaraffdina I'lauch. ; Ijinden, PI. Nouv. 8. 1859. 



Tabasco. 



Shrub, the brauchlets rufous-villous ; leaves petiolate, elliptic, about 15 cm. 

 long and 5 cm. wide, subacuminate, entire, coriaceous, glabrous above, fer- 

 ruginous-pubescent beneath ; flowers solitary or fasciculate in the leaf axils, 

 pedicellate, 16 to 20 mm. long, green ; petals united to the middle, the lobes 

 suborbiculai', spreading. 



2. JACQUINIA L. ; Jacq. Stirp. Amer. 53. 1763. 



Shrubs or trees; leaves entire, persistent, rigid, each tipped with a rigid 

 spine, short-petiolate ; flowers terminal, yellow or orange, 5-parted ; corolla 

 lobes spreading; staminodia inserted upon the corolla tube, resembling the 

 corolla lobes but smaller; fruit ovoid or globose, large, cuspidate, few-seeded. 



The following names are reported for species of uncertain identity : 

 "MuychS" (Yucatan); " flor de Mayo" (Veracruz); " sixje " (Tabasco); 

 " sicajan " (Chiapas). In South America some species are known as " bar- 

 basco." The plants are used widely in tropical America as fish poisons. 

 Flowers umbellate or fasciculate. 



Leaves mostly elliptic, about 2 cm. wide 1. J. liebmannii. 



Leaves oblanceolate, about 8 mm. wide 2. J. pringlei. 



Flowers racemose. 



Leaves tomentose beneath 3. J. seleriana. 



Leaves glabrous beneath. 



Connective produced beyond the anther cells as a short sharp point. 



4. J. pungens. 



