118 WATSON: THE GENUS HELIOCARPUS 
2. HELIOCARPUS PALLIDUS Rose, Contr. U.S. Nat. Herb. 
S128. 3897 
Tree, 3.5-7.5 m. high; branchlets densely stellate- pubescent ; 
leaves broad-ovate, integral or obscurely lobed, long-acuminate, 
5-8 X 3-6cm., base round, petiole 2-5 cm. long, dark green above, 
ea gg with a very pale, dense, short, fine tomentum below, 
three- to ie nerved, irrenbitly serrate; panicle open, s preading: 
sepals four or five, flat, appendaged; petals smaller, one-nerved, 
slightly seallats on both surfaces near the base; stamens about 
twenty; style about equal to the ovary, bifid about one- fifth 
of its length, lobes obtuse; fruit sessile, bday orbicular, 3 mm 
diameter, np ; densely stellate with a few short plumose hairs, 
fringe 4 m 
TYPE: ke 1g1, Chihuahua (U. S. National Herbarium); z 
Nelson 6970, Guerrero; Palmer 157, Guerrero. 
3- HELIOCARPUS OCCIDENTALIS Rose, Contr. U.S. Nat. 
Herb. 5:127. 1867 
ree, 4.5-9 m. high; leaves integral, broadly ovate-lanceolate, 
base round, long-acuminate, obtusely serrate, above green, 
glabrescent, beneath densely but very finely, short, appressed- 
stellate; panicle large and spreading; sepals four or five, slightly 
h , Short-appendaged; petals very small, obovate, entire, 
glandular, three-nerved, esas stellate toward the base, es- 
pecially on the edges; stamens about sixteen; ovary rather smal ; 
style as long as the ovary, ‘bifid, robes somewhat irregular; fruit 
sessile, body oval, very dark, faces rugose, with separate stellate 
tufts, 3.5 mm. n. wide, without plumose hairs, fringe 7 mm. wi 
very plum 
TYPE: in a U.S. National Herbarium, number not men- 
tioned, Palmer 440, Guerrero; and 986, Colima cited; Langlassé 
623, Guerrero 7 Pringle 10069, Guerrero) 
The fruit in this species is very characteristic, and the species 
shows little variability. 
4. HELIOCARPUS POLYANDRUs S. Watson, Proc. Am. Acad) » 
21: 420. 1886 
H. glaber Brandegee, Zoe 5: 207. 1904. 
H. laevis Rose, Contr. U.S. Nat. Herb. 8: 317. 1905. 
Tree or shrub; branchlets and _ petioles pase porte nca 
leaves integral, ovate-lanceolate, cordate, acuminate, essen 
glabrous above, slightly ganna beneath, degree of pu- 
scence variable, obtusely serrate; panicle small: sepals five, 
hooded and appendaged, 4 cin ong; petals linear-obovate, 
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