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2. Evea elata (Swartz) Standi. Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 18: 123. 1916. 

 Cephaelis elata Swartz, Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ. 45. 1788. 



Cephaelis punicea Vahl, Eclog. Amer. 1: 19. 1796. 



Oaxaca and Chiapas. West Indies and Central America. 



Shrub; leaves oblong-oblanceolate to elliptic-oblong, 10 to 25 cm. long, acu- 

 minate, acute to attenuate at base; heads often trichotomous, the bracts large, 

 red or purplish. 



3. Evea chiapensis Standi., sp. nov. 



Type from Cerro del Boquer6n, Chiapas {Pur pus 6928; U. S. Nat. Herb. no. 

 567214). 



Glabrous shrub; leaves sessile, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 7 to 11 cm. 

 long, long-acuminate, narrowed to the base, thin, very lustrous above; heads 

 terminal, the peduncles about 1 cm. long; bracts green, 12 to 15 mm. long, acute, 

 short-connate. 



40. PALICOUBEA Aubl. PL Guian. 1: 172. 1775. 

 Shrubs or small trees; flowers small, in chiefly terminal, usually tliyrsiform 

 panicles, sometimes corj^mbose; calyx entire or 5-lobate; corolla tube elongate, 

 straight or curved, often gibbous, the limb 5-lobate, the lobes valvate; fruit 

 baccate, usually containing 2 1-seeded nutlets. 



Calyx lobate; flowers in pedunculate panicles 1. P. galeottiana. 



Calyx truncate; flowers in sessile corymbs 2. P. nigrescens. 



1. Palicourea galeottiana Mart. Bull. Acad. Brux. 11': 136. 1844. 

 ?Psychotria mexicana Willd.; Roem. & Schult. Syst. Veg. 5: 189. 1819. 

 Palicourea mexicana Benth.; Oerst. Nat. For. Kjobenhavn Vid. Medd. 1852: 



37. 1853. 

 Palicourea costaricensis Benth.; Oerst. Nat. For. Kjobenhavn Vid. Medd. 



1852: 38. 1853. 

 Veracruz, Puebla, Oaxaca, and Chiapas; type from Oaxaca. Central America 

 and Panama. 



Shrub, 2 to 4.5 meters high, glabrous or nearly so; stipules bilobate; leaves 

 short-petiolate, oblong or elliptic-oblong, 7 to 20 cm. long, acuminate, acute at 

 base; panicles longer or shorter than the leaves, the branches yellowish or red- 

 dish; corolla orange, 1.5 to 2 cm. long; fruit about 5 mm. in diameter. 



2. Palicourea nigrescens Mart. & Gal. Bull. Acad. Brux. ll': 136. 1844. 

 Veracruz; type from Jalapa. 



Shrub; leaves short-petiolate, ovate-lanceolate or elliptic-oblong, 10 to 15 cm. 

 long, acuminate, acute or attenuate at base, glabrous or nearly so; corymbs 

 much shorter than the leaves; corolla pink, 6 to 7 mm. long. 



DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



Palicourea gardenioides (Scheidw.) Benth. & Hook.; Hemsl. Biol. Centr. 

 Amer. Bot. 2: 52. 1881. Rhodostoma gardenioides Scheidw. in Otto & Dietr. 

 AUgem. Gartenzeit 10: 286. 1842. Veracruz. 



41. PAEDERIA L. Mant. PI. 1: 7. 1767. 

 1. Paederia pringlei Greenm. Proc. Amer. Acad. 39: 92. 1903. 



Guerrero and Morelos; type from Yautepec, Morelos, altitude 1,385 meters. 



Slender shrub, scandent to a height of 6 meters; leaves long-petiolate, ovate or 

 broadly ovate, 3 to 8 cm. long, abruptly acuminate, rounded or cordate at base, 

 villous beneath or finally glabrate; flowers in lax axillary' cymes or panicles; 

 calyx lobes linear or lanceolate; corolla funnelform, 12 to 14 mm. long; fruit 

 oval, 10 to 12 mm. long, glabrous, strongly compressed, 2-celled, each cell 1-seeded. 



