STANDLEY TREES AND SHRUBS OF MEXICO. 1109 



1. Icacorea karwinskyana (Mez) Standi. 



Ardisia karwinskyana Mez in Engl. Pflanzenreich IV. 236: 85. 1902. 



Type from Ixcatlan, Oaxaca. 



Branchlets glabrous ; leaves obovate or broadly oblong, about 20 cm. long 

 and 8.5 cm. wide, rounded at apex (?), acute at base, entire, glabrous; 

 flowers racemose, the panicles many-flowered, much shorter than the leaves; 

 buds 6 to 7 mm. long; sepals broadly ovate, ciliolate. 



2. Icacorea lindenii (Mez) Standi. 



Ardisia lindenii Mez in Engl. Pflanzenreich IV. 236: 86. 1902. 



Type from Poyapatengo, Tabasco. 



Branchlets glabrous ; leaves obovate, about 11 cm. long and 5 cm. wide, acute 

 at base, entire, glabrous; panicles few-flowered, the flowers racemose; buds 

 7 mm. long, glabrous ; sepals broadly ovate, rounded at apex, ciliate. 



3. Icacorea revoluta (H. B. K.) Standi. 



Ardisia revoluta H. B. K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 3: 246. 1819. 



Ardisia bracteosa DC. Trans. Linn. Soc. Bot. 17: 127. 1834. 



Ardisia scopuVnia T. S. Brandeg. Zoe 5: 215. 1905. 



Sinaloa to Durango, Veracruz, and Oaxaca : type from La Venta de 

 Moxonera. Central America. 



Shrub or tree, 2 to 10 meters high, glabrous ; leaves short-petiolate, elliptic 

 or obovate, 9 to 19 cm. long, obtuse or acute, acute at base, entire; panicles 

 equaling the leaves, the flowers racemose, long-pedicellate ; sepals ovate, round- 

 ed at apex; corolla pinkish white; fruit globose, 4 to 5 mm. in diameter. 

 "Laurel," "laurel de la sierra," "mangle," " pimientilla " (Sinaloa); 

 " negrito " (Durango, Patoni) ; " camaca," " sirasil " (Oaxaca, Chiapas, Seler) ; 

 "capulln manso " (Veracruz, Vrbina) ; " capulln " (Colima) ; "uva " (El 

 Salvador, Nicaragua); " guastomate," •' f ruta de pava " (Costa Rica); 

 " arraySn " (Mexico, Mez); " cerezo " (El Salvador). 



The fruit is edible. 



4. Icacorea paniculata (Nutt.) Sudw. Gard. & For. 6: 324. 1893. 

 Cyrilla paniculfiia Nutt. Amer. .Journ. Sci. 5: 290. 1822. 



Ardisia escallonioides Schlecht. & Cham. Linnaea 6: 393. 1831. 



Ardisia pickeringia Torr. & Gray; DC. Prodr. 8: 124. 1844. 



Tamaulipas, San Luis Potosi, Veracruz. Oaxaca, and Chiapas. Florida, West 

 Indies, and Guatemala. 



Shrub or small tree, sometimes 7.5 meters high, with a trunk 15 cm. in 

 diameter, the bark thin, light gray or white, scaly; leaves obovate or elliptic, 

 to 12 cm. long, obtuse or acute, acute at base, entire, glabrous; flowers 

 fragrant, the panicles 5 to 12 cm. long; fruit globose, 4 to 8 mm. in diameter, 

 black and shining; wood hard, brown, marked with darker bands, its specific 

 gravity about 0.86. " Huituuibio " (Chiapas); " morita " (Oaxaca); " xook 

 num " (Yucatan, Maya, Seler). 



5. Icacorea spicigera (Donn. Smith) Standi. 



Ardisia spicigera Donn. Smith, Bot. Gaz. 27: 434. 1899. 



Type from ComitSn, Chiapas. 



Branchlets glabrous ; leaves oblong-elliptic, about 12 cm. long and 4 cm. 

 wide, acute, entire, glabrous ; panicles many-flowered, longer than the leaves ; 

 buds 5 to 6 mm. long. 

 Q. Icacorea nigrescens (Oerst.) Standi. 



Ardisia nigrescens Oerst. Nat. For. Kjobenhavn Vid. Medd. 1861: 130. pi. 2. 

 1861. 



Veracruz ; type material collected near Colipa and Jacaltepec. 

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