STANDLEY TKEES AND SHRUBS OF MEXICO. 1155 



1. Tabernaemontana litoralis H. B. K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 3: 228. 1819. 



Type from Campeche ; reported also from Tabasco, Veracruz, Guerrero, and 

 British Honduras. 



Leaves elliptic-oblong, about 12 cm. long and 5 cm. wide, subacuminate, 

 acute at base ; sepals fleshy, the margins imbricate ; corolla tube 4 to 5 times 

 as long as the calyx ; stamens included. 



Known to the writer only from the original description. The vernacular 

 names " sicte " and " sictillo " are reported from Tabasco, but they may per- 

 tain to some other species. 



2. Tabernaemontana citrifolia L. Sp. PI. 210. 1753. 

 Tabernaemontana martensii Peyr. Linnaea 30: 31. 1859. 

 Tabernaemontana paisavelensis Loesener, Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2: 555. 1894. 

 Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Tabasco, and Oaxaca. West Indies; Central and 



South America. 



Glabrous shrub or small tree; leaves petiolate, oblanceolate-oblong to ob- 

 long-obovate or elliptic, 6 to 20 cm. long, acute or very abruptly short-acumi- 

 nate, acute at base ; flowers white, in dense or lax cymes, pedicellate ; corolla 

 tube 6 to 8 mm. long. "Cojon de gato " (Veracruz) ; " lecherillo " (Oaxaca) ; 

 "palo de San Diego" (Tamaulipas); " cachito " (Nicaragua); " pegojo," 

 "lechoso" (Cuba); " huevo de gallo " (Cuba, Porto Rico); " guacharaco," 

 " coj6n de cabrito," " turma de perro " (Colombia). 



The flowers are sweet-scented. The milky juice is sometimes applied to 

 warts to destroy them. In the West Indies the plant has been employed as 

 a remedy for fevers. 



3. Tabernaemontana alba Mill. Gard. Diet. ed. 8. Tabernaemontana no. 2. 



17GS. 

 Reported from Veracruz and Yucatdn. 



Leaves ovate-oblong, 12 to 15 cm. long, 5 to 6 cm. wide, abruptly short- 

 acuminate, acute at base, petiolate; cymes many-flowered. 

 Known to the writer only from description. 



4. Tabernaemontana amyg'dalifolia Jacq. Enum. PI. Carib. 14. 1760. 

 Tabernaemontana acapulcensis Miers, Apocyn. S. Amer. 57. 1878. 

 Sinaloa to Oaxaca and Yucatan. Central and South America. 



Slirub, 2 to 4.5 meters high, glabrous throughout ; leaves elliptic to narrowly 

 lance-oblong, 5 to 17 cm. long, acute or acuminate, acute at base; corolla 

 white ; follicles 4 to 6 cm. long, 1.5 to 2 cm. thick, smooth. " Berraco de la 

 costa," "berraco" (Sinaloa); "chusumpek" (Yucatan Maya); "cojon de 

 puerco " (Oaxaca, El Salvador); " utzupek " " olfato de perro" (Yucatan, 

 Seler) ; " jazmin de perro" (Oaxaca, Yucatan) ; " huevos de toro " (Guerrero, 

 Oaxaca); "cojon de toro" (Oaxaca); " rejalgar " (Oaxaca, Reko) ; " pla- 

 tanito " (Colombia); "huevo de gato" (Panama); "jazmin del monte " 

 (Panama, El Salvador); " chilindr6n," "cojon macho," " leche de perra," 

 "amatillo" (El Salvador). 



7. STEMMADENIA Benth. Bot. Voy. Sulph. 124. 1844. 



Shrubs or small trees; leaves opposite; flowers large, usually yellow, few, 

 in terminal cymes ; calyx 5-parted, the lobes imbricate, glandular within ; 

 corolla funnelform, the tube expanded into a broad throat, the lobes contorted ; 

 stamens included, the anthers sagittate, not appendaged ; fruit of 2 short 

 fleshy divaricate follicles. 



