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STANDLEY^ TREES AND SHRUBS OF MEXICO. 1147 



MichoacSn to Tamaulipas, Veracruz, and Chiapas. West Indes; Central and 

 South America. 



Shrub or small tree, 2 to 4 meters high ; leaves petiolate, narrowly lanceolate 

 to broadly ovate, 7 to 18 cm. long, acute to attenuate, decurrent at base, ser- 

 rate or entire, usually glabrate above, tomentose or glabrate beneath ; flower 

 heads in panicled, leafy or naked spikes: flowers yellow. " Tepozan " (Vera- 

 cruz, Mexico, Oaxaca, Nicaragua); " topoziln " (Oaxaca, etc.); " zompantle " 

 (Veracruz); " topoza " {Herrera) ; " zayolizSn, " layolizan," " cayolizan," 

 "cayoloz^n," " zayolizciin," "cayolinan" (Nueva Farm. Mex.) " hierba de la 

 mosea " (Oaxaca, Relco) ; "salvia real" (Sesse & Mocino) ; "salvia" (El 

 Salvador); "salvia sija," "salvia santa " (Guatemala); " tabaquillo " (Pan- 

 ama) ; " tabaco de monte," "salvia blanca " (Colombia). 



The plant has^i camphor-like odor. A decoction of the leaves, bark, an-l 

 roots has been employed as a diuretic, especially in dropsy, as a healing lotion 

 for wounds, and for rheumatic pains and uterine affections. In Colombia the 

 leaves are applied to the forehead to relieve headache. 



15. Buddleia nitida Benth. in DC. Prodi*. 10: 437. 1846. 

 Type from Chiapas. Guatemala. 



Leaves petiolate, lance-oblong, 5 to 12 cm. long, acuminate, usually acute 

 at base, entire, coriaceous, glabrate above, closely brownish-tomentose be- 

 neatii ; panticles short and dense. 



16. Buddleia parviflora H. B. K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 2: 353. 1817. 

 Buddleia microphyUa H. B. K. Nov. Gen. «& Sp. 2: 353. 1817. 

 Buddleia abbreviata H. B. K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 2: 353. 1817. 

 Buddleia lanceolata Benth. PI. Hartw. 48. 1840. 

 Buddleia gracilis Kunth, Ind. Sem. Hort. Berol. 1844. 

 Buddleia venusta Kunth, Ind. Sem. Hort. Berol. 1844. 

 Buddleia ligustrina Loesener, Repert. Sp. Nov. Fedde 9: 359. 1911. 

 Buddleia monticola Loesener, Repert. Sp. Nov. Fedde 9: 3G0. 1911. 

 Sinaloa (?) and Jalisco to Durango, San Luis Potosi, Veracruz, and Oaxaca; 



type from Cuernavaca, Morelos. 



Shrub or small tree, 1 to 6 meters high ; leaves petiolate or subseasile, nar- 

 rowly lanceolate to ovate, 2 to 10 cm. long, acute or attenuate, serrate or en- 

 tire, usually glabrate above but densely tomentulose beneath ; flower heads few- 

 flowered, often loose, in small or large panicles. "Tepozan" (Sinaloa) ; " tepo- 

 zSn Cimarron," "tepozan de cerro " (Mexico). 



DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



Buddleia teucrioides Kriinzlein, Ann. Naturhist. Hofmus. Wien 26: 3D7. 

 1912. Locality not known, but probably Mexican. 



140. APOCYNACEAE. Dogbane Family. 



Shrubs or trees, rarely herbs, often scandent, with milky juice; leaves entire, 

 estipulate, opposite, verticillate, or alternate ; flowers usually in cymes, ter- 

 minal or lateral, large or small, perfect, regular; calyx inferior, the segments 

 united at base, often glandular within at base, usually 5-parted ; corolla gamo- 

 petalous, usually saberform or funnelform, the limb commonly 5-lobate ; sta- 

 mens 5, inserted on the tube or throat of the corolla, the filaments short, the 

 anthers narrow, free but often connivent, frequently appendaged at base; style 

 1, simple or cleft at base; fruit of 2 carpels, these dry or fleshy, dehiscent or 

 indehiscent. 



