STAXDLEY TEEES AND SHRUBS OF MEXICO 1337 



Shrub; leaves oblong-lanceolate, 8 to 15 cm. long, long-acuminate, long- 

 attenuate to the slender petiole, entire, glabrous above, sparsely appressed-pilose 

 beneath or nearly glabrous; spikes 9 cm. long or less; bracts oval, thin, glabrous 

 or nearly so, longer than the calyx; corolla red, about 6 cm. long, pilose, 



5. Aphelandra speciosa T. S. Brandeg. Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 6: 196. 1915, 

 Type from Finca Mexiquito, Chiapas. 



Plants suffrutescent, glabrous throughout; leaves elliptic-oblong, long-petiolate, 

 10 to 32 cm. long, long-acuminate, attenuate at base, thin, entire; spikes 12 to 16 

 cm. long, the bracts reddish, ciliolate, longer than the calj^x; corolla red, glabrous, 

 the tube 2 cm. long. 



6. Aphelandra aurantiaca (Scheidw.) Lindl. Bot. Reg. 31: pi. 12. 1845. 

 Hemisandra aurantiaca Scheidw. Bull. Acad. Brux. 9': 22. 1842. 

 Aphelatidra acutifolia Nees in DC. Prodr. 11: 299. 1847. 



IHydromestus maculatus Scheidw. in Otto & Dietr. AUgem. Gartenz. 1842: 

 285. 1842. 



^Strobilorachis glabra Klotzsch; Link, Klotzsch & Otto, Icon. PI. Rar. 117. 

 pi. 48. 1842. 



1 Aphelandra hydrornestus Hemsl. Biol. Centr. Amer. Bot. 2: 512. 1882. 



Oaxaca, Chiapas, and Tabasco. Central and South America. 



Plants herbaceous or suffrutescent; leaves lance-oblong to elliptic, 8 to 30 cm. 

 long, acuminate, acute or attenute at base, entire, glabrous or nearly so; spikes 

 6 to 16 cm. long, the bracts pilose or puberulent; corolla orange, about 6 cm. 

 long. 



7. Aphelandra deppeana Schlecht. & Cham. Linnaea 5: 96. 1830. 

 Aphelandra cristata H. B. K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 2: 236. 1817. Not A. cristata 



R. Br. 1810. 



Aphelandra pedinata Willd.; Nees in DC. Prodr. 11: 297. 1847. 



Aphelandra haenkeana Nees in DC. Prodr. 11: 298. 1847. 



Guerrero to Chiapas, Tabasco, Yucatdn, and Veracruz; type from Hacienda 

 de la Laguna, Veracruz. Central and South America; West Indies. 



Shrub, 1 to 4.5 meters high; leaves ovate-elliptic to lance-oblong, 7 to 20 cm. 

 long, acuminate, decurrent below, often to the base of the petiole, entire, usually 

 scabrous above and pubescent beneath; spikes often clustered, the bracts with 

 glandular spots on each side; corolla red, about 4 cm. long. "Anilillo," "anil 

 <;imarr6n" (Tabasco); "chamoltaco" (Nicaragua); "oreja de coyote," "cordon- 

 cillo," "palo del golpe" (El Salvador). 



6. BERGINIA Harv.; Benth. & Hook. Gen. PL 2: 1096. 1873. 



Low shrubs with whitish branches; leaves sessile or nearly so, entire; flowers 

 small, sessile in the axils of small bracts, forming terminal, more or less inter- 

 rupted spikes; bractlets narrow, rigid, resembUng the calyx lobes; calyx 5-parted, 

 the segments linear-lanceolate, acute, rigid; corolla tube short, ampliate above, 

 the limb bilabiate; stamens 4, the anthers glabrous; ovules 2 in each cell. 



The following species are the only ones known. 

 Leaves oblong-lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, minutely scaberulo-puberulent. 



1. B. virgata. 



Leaves broadly ovate to oval or rounded, hirtellous 2. B. palmeri. 



1. Eerginia virgata Harv.; Benth. & Hook. Gen. PI. 2: 1097. 1873. 



Pringleophytum lanceolatum A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 20: 293. 1885. 



Baja California and Sonora; type probably from Sonora. 



Branches scaberulous; leaves 1 to 4 cm. long, obtuse or acute; spikes 13 cm. 

 long or less; calyx 5 to 6 mm. long, minutely puberulent; corolla about 12 mm. 

 long, puberulent, pink. 



