STANDLEY TREES AND SHRUBS OF MEXICO 1531 



Montanoa anomala Robins. & Greenm. Proc. Amer. Acad. 34: 509. 1S99. 



Known only from the type locality, Valley of Cordoba, Veracruz. 



Leaves petioled, the blades of the uppermost 4 cm. long, 5 cm. wide, unlobed; 

 panicle 18 cm. wide; phyllaries linear or linear-lanceolate. (Description com- 

 piled.) 



2. Montanoa rekoi Blake, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 22: 610. 1924. 

 Known only from the type locality, Apango, Oa.xaca. 



Large tree, the trunk up to 50 cm. thick, the bark cork-like; leaf blades 8.5 to 

 19 cm. long, 2.3 to 9.5 cm. wide, unlobed or sometimes 3-lobed; disk 5 mm. high, 

 2.5 mm. thick; phyllaries ovate. "Yagazeche," "ocotillo." 



The branches contain a rosin or camphor-like substance which burns like pitch. 



3. Montanoa floribunda (H. B. K.) Schultz Bip.; C. Koch, Wochenschr. 



Gartn. 7: 406. 1864. 

 Eriocoma floribunda H. B. K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 4: 268. pL 396. 1820. 

 Montagnae a floribunda DC. Prodr. 5: 564. 1836. 

 State of Mexico to Oaxaca; type collected between Guadalupe and Citj' of 



Mexico. 

 Shrub, up to 2.5 meters high; branches sordidly pilose-tomentose, glabrescent; 

 leaves slender-petioled, the blades 2.5 to 6.5 cm. long and wide, crenate-dentate, 

 scabrous above, sordid-tomentose beneath; heads very numerous, cymose- 

 panicled. ''Cihuapatli," "zuapatli," "zoapatle," "zoapatli." 



4. Montanoa tomentosa Cervant. in Llave & Lex. Nov. Veg. Descr. 2: 11. 



1825. 



Eriocoma fragrans D. Don in Sweet, Brit. Fl. Gard. II. 1: pi. 44- 1830. 



Eriocoma heterophylla Schrad. "Ind. Sem. Hort. Gott. 1833: 3. 1833;" 

 Linnaea 10: Litt.-Ber. 70. 1835. 



Montagnaea tomentosa DC. Prodr. 5: 564. 1836. 



Montagnaea tomentosa cordifolia DC. Prodr. 5: 565. 1836. 



Montagnaea tomentosa ternifolia DC. Prodr. 5: 565. 1836. 



Montanoa ternifolia Schultz Bip.; C. Koch, Wochenschr. Gartn. 7: 406. 1864. 



Eriocoma tomentosa Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PL 1: 336. 1891. 



Eriocoma ternifolia Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 1: 336. 1891. 



Montanoa tomentosa ternifolia Hemsl. (Biol. Centr. Amer. Bot. 2: 166. 1881, 

 as synonym); Robins. & Greenm. Proc. Amer. Acad. 34: 510. 1899. 



San Luis Potosi to Oaxaca; type from State of Mexico. 



Similar to M. floribunda; leaf blades 3.5 to 11 cm. long, 2 to 8.5 cm. wide, often 

 coarsely lobed especially toward base. "Cihuapatli," "ciguapacle" (from the 

 Nahuatl cihua-patli, woman + medicine); "singuapacle," "zuapatli," "zoapatle," 

 "zihoapacth," "sinhuapastle," "zihuapatl," "zoapatle," "cihoapactli," "hierba 

 de la parida" (Distrito Federal). 



The plant is reputed to have stomachic, diuretic, and pectoral properties. Its 

 most common use, however, is as an aid to women in childbirth, the decoction 

 being administered to provoke uterine contractions, although such use is said to 

 be dangerous. It is said to be much used for this purpose in Mexico at the present 

 time. See E. Armendariz, Estudio quimico del zoapatli, Anal. Inst. M6d. Nac. 

 Mex. i: 11. 



It is doubtless this or a related species of which Sahagiin writes as follows: 

 "There is a medicinal plant called ciuapatli. It is a shrub from which spring many 

 long branches with ashen, pointed leaves. The flowers are yellow and white. 

 The seed resembles that of blite. The decoction of the leaves is the part used. 

 Pregnant women drink it at the time of delivery to facilitate labor a nd to prevent 

 consequent exhaustion. The numerous roots of this shrub are fine and long, 

 black outside and vellow within. Ground and mixed with lukewarm water, 



