1106 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 



Branchlets finely pubescent ; leaves lanceolate, about 4.5 cm. long and 1.5 cm. 

 wide, acute, subtriplinerved ; inflorescence elongate-racemose, about as long as 

 the leaves ; flowers 8 to 10 mm. long. 



7. Jacquinia aurantiaca Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 2: 6. 1811. 

 Jacquinia mexicana Kegel, Ind. Sem. Hort. Petrop. 48. 1865. 

 Jacquinia arenicola T. S. Brandeg. Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 6: 188. 1915. 

 Sinaloa to Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Tabasco, and Oasaca. Central America 



and West Indies. 



Shrub or small tree, 2 to 9 meters high, the branchlets pubescent ; bark smooth ; 

 leaves oblong to elliptic, 3 to 6 cm. long, obtuse or acute ; corymbs few-flowered ; 

 flowers orange, about 8 mm. long ; fruit globose, about 2 cm. in diameter. " Palo 

 de las animas" (Guerrero); "guie-zee," " flor del nino " (Oaxaca, 8ele7-) ; 

 " rosadilla," " rosadillo " (Robelo) ; " neucxochitl " (Nahuatl, "honey-flower," 

 Robelo) ; " siche " (Tabasco); " ducuche " (Guatemala); "San Juan" (Sina- 

 loa) ; "barbasco," " limoncillo," " escorpioncillo," " mirra," " espino ruco," " cru- 

 cillo" (El Salvaor). 



The flowers are said to be eaten by birds. Palmer reports that in Guerrero 

 the powdered bark is mixed with salt and applied to sores upon animals. The 

 crushed fruit is employed extensively in Mexico and Central America for 

 poisoning fish. 



The tree is described and figtired by Hernflndezi as " hoitzxochitl," or " arbor 

 lonchifolia." The bark, he states, was employed as a remedy for venereal 

 diseases; a decoction of the seeds as a remedy for headache and toothache. 

 He states that other names for the plant were " xochipaltic," " neuhxochitl," 

 and " hoatzlnxochitl." 



8. Jacquinia racemosa DC. Prodr. 8: 150. 1844. 

 Type from Tampico, Tamaulipas. 



Branchlets puberulent ; leaves lanceolate, about 5 cm. long and 1.5 cm. wide, 

 acute, 1-nerved ; racemes about 7-flowered, the flowers 7 mm. long. 



9. Jacquinia axillaris Oerst. Nat. For. Kjobenhavn Vid. Medd. 1861: 121. 1861. 

 Veracruz and Oaxaca; type from Papantla, Veracruz. 



Branchlets puberulent ; leaves lanceolate to elliptic-oblong, 5 to 7.5 cm. long, 

 acute, triplinerved ; flowers orange, 7 to 10 mm. long. 



EXCLUDED SPECIES. 



Mez reports J. angustifolia Oerst. and J. subniembranacca Mez from Mexico, 

 but this is merely through ignorance concerning the localities, which should 

 be Costa Rica and Nicaragua, respectively. 



132. MYKSINACEAE. Myrsine Family. 



Reference: Mez in Engl. Pflanzenreich.IV. 23G. 1902. 



Shrubs or trees ; leaves estipulate, alternate, entire, crenate, or serrate, 

 punctate or lineolate ; flowers small, white or pink, perfect, 5 or 4-parted ; 

 calyx inferior, the segments free or short-connate, usually punctate ; petals 

 usually united, the corolla rotate, the lobes valvate or dextrorsely convolute; 

 stamens as many as the corolla segments and opposite them, usually attached 

 to the corolla; style simple, the stigma punctiform or capitate; fruit baccate 

 or drupaceous. 



^ Thesaurus 39. 1651. 



