1110 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 



Branchlets tomentose; leaves elliptic-lanceolate, about 6 cm. long and 2 

 cm. wide, short-acuminate, acutish or rounded at base, glabrous above, strigose 

 or glabrate beneath ; inflorescence few-flowered, terminal and axillary, often 

 simple and consisting of 2 to 4 umbellate flowers ; buds 6 mm. long ; sepals 

 ovate, acutish. 



7. Icacorea pellucida (Oerst.) Standi. 



Ardisla pellucida Oerst. Nat. For. Kjobenhavn Vid. Medd. 1861: 130. pi. 2. 

 18G1. 



Type from Pital, Veracruz. Guatemala. 



Leaves oblong, about 25 cm. long and 8 cm. wide, short-acuminate, acute 

 at base, glabrous ; panicles few-flowered, much shorter than the leaves, the 

 flowers corymbose ; sepals broadly ovate, acute. 



8. Icacorea pectinata (Donn. Smith) Standi. 



Ardisia pectinata Donn. Smith, Bot. Gaz. 12: 132. 1887. 



Tabasco. Type from PansamalS,, Guatemala. 



Leaves elliptic, about 28 cm. long and 12 era. wide, acuminate, acute at 

 base, glabrous; panicles many-flowered, much shorter than the leaves, the 

 flowers corymbose, 5 mm. long, glabrous; sepals ovate, acutish, ciliate. 



9. Icacorea crenipetala (Mez) Standi. 



Ardisia crenipetala Mez in Engl. Pflanzenreich IV. 236: 91. 1902. 



Veracruz and Chiapas ; tj'pe from Orizaba. 



Branchlets puberulent ; leaves elliptic or oblong-oblanceolate, 9 to 14 cm. 

 long, 4 to 5 cm. wide, acuminate, acute at base, crenate, glabrous ; panicles 

 pyramidal, few-flowered ; buds o mm. long ; sepals narrowly triangular, acutish. 



10. Icacorea liebm^annii (Oerst.) Standi. 



Ardisia liebmannii Oerst. Nat. For. Kjobenhavn Vid. Medd. 1861: 129. pi. 2. 

 1861. 



Veracruz ; type from AmatlS.n. 



Branchlets puberulent ; leaves elliptic-lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, about 

 12 cm. long and 3.5 to 4 cm. wide, acuminate, acute or obtuse at base ; panicles 

 many-flowered, corymbiform, shorter than the leaves; buds 4 mm. long, gla- 

 brous ; sepals broadly ovate. 



11. Icacorea compressa (H. B. K. ) Standi. 



Ardisia compressa H. B. K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 3: 245. 1819. 



Ardisia capollina DC. Trans. Linn. Soc. Bot. 17: 116. 1884. 



Sinaloa to Oaxaca and Veracruz. Central and South America. 



Shrub or small tree, the branchlets glabrous or nearly so ; leaves lanceolate 

 to oblong or elliptic, 6 to 15 cm. long, acute or acuminate, acute at base, gla- 

 brous ; panicles terminal and axillary, longer or shorter than the leaves, the 

 flowers white, 5 to 6 enm. long, glabrous ; sepals ovate-elliptic ; fruit globose, 

 red or black, about 6 mm. in diameter. " Laurelillo " (Sinaloa); " capulfn 

 silvestre," " chico correoso " (Veracruz) ; " capulincillo " (Veracruz, Oaxaca) ; 

 "tucuico" (Costa Rica); " capulln de tej6n," " capuHn de mayo" (Vera- 

 cruz) ; " cerezo," " cerecilla," " cotomate," " cerecita " (El Salvador). 



The fruit is edible and has an acid flavor. 



5. PARATHESIS Hook. f. ; Benth. & Hook. Gen. PI. 2: 645. 1876. 



Shrubs or small trees ; leaves petiolate, entire or crenulate ; flowers small. 

 5-parted, in terminal or axillary panicles, usually pink ; sepals minute, connate 

 below ; corolla rotate, the lobes linear or oblong, valvate ; fruit small, globose, 

 1-seeded. 



