1380 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBAEIUM 



5. Hamelia nodosa Mart. & Gal. Bull. Acad. Brux. ll': 234. 1844. 

 Veracruz and Oaxaca; type from Mirador, Veracruz, altitude 900 meters. 



Costa Rica. 



Shrub, 2.5 to 3 meters high; leaves ovate to elliptic-oblong, 4 to 9.5 cm. long, 

 acute or short-acuminate, rounded to attenuate at base; corolla red, 18 to 22 

 mm. long; fruit 8 to 10 mm. long. 



6. Hamelia erecta Jacq. (Enum. PI. Carib. 16, hyponym. 1760) Stirp. Amer. 



71. 1763. 



Hamelia patens Jacq. (Enum. PI. Carib. 16, hyponym, 1760) Stirp. Amer. 72. 

 1763. 



Hamelia lanuginosa Mart. & Gal. Bull. Acad. Brux. 11': 233. 1844. 



Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Oaxaca, Chiapas, and Yucatdn. Southern Florida; 

 West Indies; Central and South America; type from Cartagena, Colombia. 



Shrub or small tree, 1 to 4 meters high; leaves lance-oblong to ovate or oval, 

 6 to 20 cm. long, usually short-acuminate, rounded to acuminate at base; corolla 

 red, puberulent or villosulous; fruit 6 to 10 mm. long, red. "Kanan," "xkan^," 

 "xkanan" (Yucatdn, Maya); "chacloco" (Tamaulipas); "chichipin" (Guate- 

 mala, Honduras); "recadito" (Colombia); "zorrillo real," "palo camar6n" (Costa 

 Rica); "sisipinse," "flor de cangrejo" (Guatemala); "coralillo," "chichipince," 

 "xuchit paltimatia," "flor de bano" (El Salvador) ; "canilla de venado" (Nica- 

 ragua); "ponasi," "bonasi," "palo de coral" (Cuba); "btllsamo" (Porto Rico); 

 "cacanapazue," "pafiete" (Veracruz); "coral" (Honduras); "uvero" (Panama); 

 "zorriUo" (Costa Rica). 



The fruit is acid and edible, and a fermented drink is said to have been pre- 

 pared from it. The leaves and stems have been used for tanning. The crushed 

 leaves are sometimes applied to cuts and bruises, and a sirup prepared from the 

 fruit has been emploj^ed in the West Indies as a remedy for dysentery. 



DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



Hamelia rostrata Bartl.; DC. Prodr. 4: 442. 1830. Type from Acapulco, 

 Guerrero. Probably identical with H. versicolor. 



27. HOFFMANNIA Swartz, Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ. 30. 1788. 

 Shrubs or rarely herbs; leaves opposite or verticillate; flowers small, cymose, 

 axillary, the cymes sessile or pedunculate; calyx usually 4-lobate, the lobes short, 

 persistent; corolla funnelform or nearlj' rotate, the lobes imbricate; fruit baccate, 

 small, 2-celled; seeds numerous, minute. 

 Lobes of the corolla twice as long as the tube or longer. 



Calyx truncate 1. H. lenticellata. 



Calyx lobate. 



Cj^mes long-pedunculate, longer than the petioles, the peduncles equaling 

 or longer than the cj'mes. 

 Corolla red. 



Leaves glabrous beneath; corolla 12 to 13 mm. long 2. H. discolor. 



Leaves villous or villosulous beneath along the veins; corolla 10 mm. 



long 3. H. refulgens. 



Corolla yellow 4. H. rosei. 



Cymes sessile or short-pedunculate, usually shorter than the petioles, the 

 peduncles shorter than the cymes. 



Leaves oval-elliptic, 6 to 7.5 cm. wide 5. H. rotundata. 



Leaves obovate or elliptic-oblong, 1 to 3 cm. wide 6. H. mexicana. 



Lobes of the corolla equaling or shorter than the tube, or but slightly exceeding it. 

 Corolla pubescent outside. 



Cymes long-pedunculate 7. H. orizabensis. 



Cvmes sessile or nearlv so 8. H. cuneatissima. 



