STANDLEY TREES AND SHRUBS OF MEXICO. 1105 



Connective not produced into a sharp point. 



Staminodia 3 to 5 times as long as broad 5. J. flammea. 



Staminodia not more than twice as long as broad. 

 Filaments connate into a long tube free from the corolla. 



6. J. schiedeana. 

 Filaments short-connate at base, not forming a tube free from tlie 

 corolla. 



Inflorescence corymb-like 7. J. aurantiaca. 



Inflorescence strictly racemose. 



Racemes much longer than the leaves 8. J. racemosa. 



Racemes about as long as the leaves 9. J. axillaris. 



1. Jacquinia liebmannii Mez in Engl. Pflanzenreich IV. 236a: 38. 1903. 

 Type from Laguna Colorada and San Agustin. 



Branchlets puberulent ; leaves broadly elliptic or ovate-elliptic, about 4.5 cm. 

 long, obtuse or acute at apex, rounded or obtuse at base, glabrous ; inflorescence 

 1 to 3-flowered ; fruit 1.7 to 2 cm. in diameter. 



2. Jacquinia pringlei Bartlett, Proc. Amer. Acad. 44: 630. 1909. 

 Type from Iguala Canyon, Guerrero. 



Small tree; leaves petiolate, 4 to 4.5 cm. long, acute, attenuate at base, 

 glabrous ; fruit 12 to 15 mm. in diameter. 



3. Jacquinia seleriana Urb. & Loes. in Seler, Alt. Weg. Mes. 73. 1900. 

 Oaxaca ; type material from San Carlos Yautepec and Rancho de los Pichones. 

 Branchlets tomentulose ; leaves oblanceolate or linear-oblanceolate, 3 to 5 



cm. long, acute to rounded at apex, attenuate at base, glabrous above, the 

 margins revolute; flowers long-pedicellate, about 8 mm. broad; fruit 1 cm. 

 "n diameter. " Chilillo." 

 Used as a fish poison. 



4. Jacquinia pungens A. Gray, Mem. Amei*. Acad. n. ser. 5: 325. 1855. 

 Jacquinia dotmeU-smitMi Mez in Engl. Pflanzenreich IV. 236a: 39. 1903. 

 Sonera to Veracruz and Chiapas; type from Sonora. Guatemala. 



Shrub or small tree, usually 1 to 4 meters high, with very dense crown, the 

 bark gray; leaves linear-lanceolate to elliptic-oblong or linear-oblong, 3 to 6 

 cm. long, acute, subsessile, rigid ; flowers reddish yellow, about 7 mm. long, in 

 short racemes; fruit 1.5 to 2 cm. in diameter. "San Juan" (Sinaloa) ; "San 

 Juanito," "San Juanico " (Sonora); " pinicua " (Sonora. Ramirez); " rosa- 

 dilla " (Oaxaca); " mata-peje," "luruche" (Guatemala) 



McGee states that the Seri Indians of Sonora eat the green fruits, and when 

 dry they employ them as rattle beads. The flowers, which are stiff and rigid, 

 are strung as necklaces in some localities, and they are used to give a durable 

 yellow d.ye to palm leaves and baskets. The fruit is much used along the 

 west coast for stupefying fish. 



5. Jacquinia flammea Millsp. ; Mez iu Engl. Pflanzenreich IV. 236a: 40. 1903. 

 Yucatjin. 



Branchlets glabrojis; leaves oblong or obovate, 3 to 4.5 cm. long, rounded 

 i>r obtuse at apex and minutely aciculate-pungent ; racemes corymbiform, equal- 

 ing or longer than the leaves ; flowers orange, 8 to 10 mm. long. 



6. Jacquinia schiedeana Mez in Engl. Pflanzenreich IV. 236a: 41. 1903. 

 Reported from Guerrero and Puebla, and from other localities of uncertain 



position. 



