STANDLEY TKEES AND SHRUBS OP MEXICO. 1253 



13. CALLICAEPA L. Sp. PL 111. 1753. 



Shrubs or trees, tlie pubescence usually stellate; leaves opposite, serrate or 

 entire ; flowers small, in large axillary cymes ; calyx short-campanulate, trun- 

 cate or 4-dentate ; corolla tube short, the limb spreading, 4-lobate, the lobes 

 equal, imbricate ; fruit drupaceous, globose or depressed, the endocarp sepa- 

 rating into 4 or fewer nutlets. 



Leaves obovate, very obtuse 1. C. parvifolia. 



Leaves lanceolate to ovate, acute or acuminate. 

 Leaves persistently but minutely stellate-pubescent on the upper surface. 



2. C. acuminata. 

 Leaves glabrous on the upper surface except when very young. 



Leaves densely stellate-tomentose beneath 3. C. pring'Iei. 



Leaves sparsely stellate-pubescent beneath 4. C. subpubescens. 



1. Callicarpa parvifolia Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beechey Voy. 305. 1839-40. 

 Type said to have come from Tepic. 



Leaves coriaceous, 3.5 cm. long, short-petiolate, slightly crenate, glabrous 

 above in age, densely grayish-tomentose beneath and reticulate-veined ; pe- 

 duncles equaling the petioles, the flowers capitate-cymose. 



2. Callicarpa acuminata H. B. K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 2: 252. 1817. 

 Tamaulipas, "Veracruz, Yucatan, and Oaxaca. Guatemala to Colombia; type 



from Colombia. 



Shrub or small tree, 1 to 6 meters high ; leaves short-petiolate, ovate to 

 oblong-serrate, lanceolate, 5 to 20 cm. long, entire or serrate, densely stellate- 

 tomentulose beneath ; cymes dense, many-flowered, usually less than half as 

 long as the leaves; corolla white, about 3 mm. long; fruit black, 5 mm. in 

 diameter. "Sac pukim" (YucatSn, Maya); " uvilla " (Tamaulipas); "vara 

 del alcalde " (Honduras). 



This is probably the plant reported as C. americana by Sess§ and Mociiio,^ 

 who state that its Totonac name is " patzahumacachil." 



3. Callicarpa pringlei Briq. Bull. Herb. Boiss. 4: 345. 1896. 

 San Luis PotosI; type from Tamasopo Canyon. 



Shrub, about 4.5 meters high, the young branches densely stellate-tomentose ; 

 leaves petiolate, lanceolate to ovate, 10 to 16 cm. long, serrate-dentate, thick, 

 rugose above; cymes many-flowered, half as long as the leaves or shorter; 

 corolla white, 3 to 4 mm. long; fruit about 4 mm. in diameter. 



Rather doubtfully distinct from C. acuminata. 



4. Callicarpa subpubescens Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beechey Voy. 305. 1839-40. 

 Tj'pe said to have come from Tepic. 



Leaves petiolate, ol)long-lanceolate, 5 cm. wide or less, attenuate at each 

 end, serrate ; peduncles equaling the petioles. 



14. AEGIPHILA Jacq. Obs. Bot. 2: 3. 1764. 



1. Aegiphila deppeana Steud. Nom. Bot. ed. 2. 1: 29. 1840. 



Aegiphila brachiata Schlecht. & Cham. Linnaea 6: 371. 1831. Not A. 

 Iracliiata Veil. 1825. 



Aegiphila pad flea Greenm. Proc. Amer. Acad. 33: 485. 1898. 



Tepic and Veracruz; type from Estero (Tamaulipas?). Reported from 

 Panama. 



*F1. Mex. 18. 1893. 



