1138 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 



Plants erect, woody at base, glabrous or scaberulous, tlie branches striate; 

 leaves linear, 1.5 to 3 cm. long, acute ; flowers corymbose, yellow, the corolla 

 1 to 1.5 cm, long. 



4. Menodora mexicana (A. DC.) A, Gray, Amer. Journ. Sci. II. 14:45. 1852. 

 BoUvaria mexicana A. DC; DC. Prodr. 8: 315. 1844. 



Type collected near Oaxaca. 



Stems glabrous ; lower leaves oblong-obovate, the upper ones linear-lanceolate, 

 18 mm. long, 4 to 6 mm. wide; corolla slightly longer than the calyx lobes; 

 capsule 6 mm. long. 



5. Menodora intricata T. S. Brandeg. Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 4: 380. 1913. 

 San Luis PotosI ; type from Minas de San Rafael. 



Stems herbaceous, glabrous ; leaves linear, bractlike ; calyx lobes about 10, 

 5 mm. long ; corolla yellow, 1 cm. long. 



6. Menodora scabra A. Gray, Amer. Journ. Sci. II. 14:44. 1852. 

 Chiliuahua to San Luis Potosi and Durango ; Baja California. Western 



Texas to Arizona ; type from New Mexico. 



Plants herbaceous or woody at base, scaberulous or glabrate ; leaves linear 

 or oblong, 1 to 2 cm. long; corolla yellow, 1 to 1.5 cm. long. 



7. Menodora helianthemoides Humb. & Bonpl. PI. Aequin. 2: 98. pi. 110. 1809. 

 Menodora helianthemoides varvifiora Greenm. Proc. Amer. Acad. 34: 369. 



1899. 



Nuevo Leon and Zacatecas to San Luis PotosI and Hidalgo; type from 

 Actop&n, Hidalgo. 



Plants herbaceous or often fruticose, with spreading branches ; leaves 5 to 15 

 mm. long, acute to rounded at apex, usually short-petiolate, pubescent; flowers 

 few, the corolla yellow, 1 cm. long, or sometimes as much as 2 cm. " Jazmin- 

 cillo del monte " (Nuevo Leon). 



8. Menodora coulteri A. Gray, Amer. Journ. Sci. 11. 14: 44. 1852. 

 Coahuila to San Luis Potosi and Hidalgo; type from ZimapSn, Hidalgo. 

 Plants usually woody, at least at base, the branches crooked and interlaced; 



leaves mostly 1 to 2 cm. long, sessile, acute, scaberulous ; flowers few, the 

 corolla 1 to 1.5 cm. long. 



Perhaps only a variant of M. helianthemoides. 



3. LIGTJSTRUM L. Sp. PI. 7. 1753. 



The species are all natives of the Old World. L. vulgare L. is the common 

 privet, which is grown extensively for hedges in the United t^tates and is 

 said to be cultivated in Mexico. It differs from the following species in hav- 

 ing smaller deciduous leaves. 



1. Ligustrum lucidum Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 1: 19. 1810. 



Widely cultivated in Mexico, and in some localities, apparently, escaped 

 from cultivation. Native of China and Japan. 



Large shrub or small tree, glabrous throughout; leaves opposite, petiolate, 

 ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 7 to 12 cm. long, acute or acuminate, entire, persist- 

 ent; flowers perfect, whitish, sessile in large terminal panicles; corolla fun- 

 nelform, about 3 mm. long, with very short tube and 4 spreading lobes; fruit 

 bluish black, 7 to 10 mm. long, usually 2-seeded. "Trueno" (San Luis 

 PotosI, Mexico, Oaxaca, etc.). 



A handsome tree, often planted for shade in Mexican parks and gardens. 

 This species has often been confused with L. jaimnicum Thunb. 



