1558 CONTEIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM 



Fornicaria scandens Raf. Sylv. Tell. 116. 1838. 



Verbesina scandens Klatt, Leopoldina 25: 106. 1889. 



Tamaulipas and Guerrero to Chiapas; type from Veracruz. Guatemala to 

 South America; West Indies. 



Scandent shrub, up to 10 meters high; leaf blades ovate to oblong-ovate, 

 5 to 12.5 cm. long, 2 to 6 cm. wide, remotely serrulate or subentire, coriaceous, 

 shining, essentially glabrous; heads 4.5 to 7 mm. high; phyllaries ovate to ovate- 

 lanceolate, acute to acuminate; corollas white, turning greenish when old. 

 "Hierba de San Antonio" (Puebla, Veracruz); "duerme-boca," " salta-af uera " 

 (El Salvador); "oreja de conejo" (Honduras); "tabacon," "bejuco de rnuela" 

 (Porto Rico). 



The root of this plant, when chewed, is said to deaden all sensation in the 

 tongue, hence the name "duerme-boca" applied in El Salvador. The name 

 "bejuco de muela," reported from Porto Rico, would indicate that because of 

 this property the plant is employed there as a remedy for toothache. The name 

 "salta-af uera" used in El Salvador is an allusion to the fact that the vine is used 

 there as a fish poison or barbasco, as which it is reported to be unusually efficient. 

 la. Salmea scandens obtusata Blake, Journ. Bot. Brit. & For. 53: 197. 1915. 



Veracruz. Guatemala; type from Cobiin. 



Phyllaries oval, rounded; otherwise as in the typical form. 



2. Salmea palmeri S. Wats. Proc. Amer. Acad. 26: 141. 1891. 

 Jalisco and Michoaciin; type from Rfo Blanco, Jalisco. 



Erect, about 50 cm. high; stem hirsutulous or strigillose, glabrate, erect- 

 branched; leaf blades ovate to oval, 4.5 to 10 cm. long, repand-denticulate; 

 heads 7 to 9 mm. high; phyllaries pubescent, with short loose subherbaceous tips. 



3. Salmea oligocephala Hemsl. Biol. Centr. Amer. Bot. 2: 194. 1881. 

 Mexico; tj'pe from Zimapan, Hidalgo. 



Erect; stem strigillose, the inflorescence hispidulous; leaf blades ovate to 

 ovate-oblong, 4.8 to 9 cm. long; heads 9 to 11 mm. high; phyllaries pubescent, 

 with narrow appressed subherbaceous tips. 



67. NOTOPTERA Urban, Symb. Ant. 2: 465. 1901. 

 Reference: Blake, Journ. Bot. Brit. & For. 53: 202, 225-229. 1915. 

 Shrubs; leaves opposite; heads radiate or discoid, cymose-panicled, the rays 

 yellow, the disk yellow or white; involucre graduate, the phyllaries indurate, 

 usualh' subherbaceous at apex; rays styliferous; achenes of disk strongW com- 

 pressed, winged on one or both margins; pappus of 2 unequal awns, without 

 squamellae, the inner awn broadly winged, the outer shorter, nearly or quite 

 wingless. 

 Heads discoid. 



Corollas erect; leaves obtuse or rounded 1. N. gaumeri. 



Corollas stronglj' reflexed at maturity; leaves acuminate. 



Heads subcylindric, 7.5 to 10 mm. high; achene wings ciliolate. 



2. N. leptocephala. 

 Heads campanulate or turbinate-campanulate, 4 to 7 mm. high; achene 

 wings not ciliolate. 



Pedicels 4 to 10 mm. long 3. N. scabridula. 



Pedicels 1 to 3 mm. long 4. N. brevipes. 



Heads radiate. 



Heads numerous; involucre 4 mm. high -_ 5. N. tequilana. 



Heads few; involucre 8 mm. high 6. N. epaleacea. 



1, Notoptera gaumeri Greenm. Field. Mus. Bot. 2: 269. 1907. 



Salmea gaumeri Greenm. in Millsp. & Chase, Field Mus. Bot. 3: 124. 1904. 

 Yucatdn; type from Izamal. 



