120 Watson: THE GENUS HELIOCARPUS 
7. HELIOCARPUS VELUTINUS Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 
8: 317. 1905 
Tree, size not known; branches light brown, seat oat stellate; 
leaves three- lobed, suborbicular, about 13 cm. long and wide, 
cordate, lobes short but acute, upper surface with dense, but 
ft 
vety to the touch; panicle rather large; sepals flat, without 
appendages, other floral parts not seen; fruit oval, bo dy 5 mm. 
wide, faces rugose, very thinly and softly stellate, 
fringe picdaecthan 6 the width of the body 
Types Pringle 8694,) Morelos, U.S. National Herbarium. 
8. HELIOCARPUS RETICULATUS Rose, Contr. U.S. Nat. Herb. 
5: 128. 1897 
H. microcarpus Rose, Ibid. 8: 316. 1905. 
mall tree; branchlets, also of the panicle, and petioles densely 
scainte: leaves broadly ovate, Bib el ha oreen obscurely, 
small acute lobes; fruit orbicular, faces about 3 mm. in diameter, 
densely tomentose, with many plumose catia: fringe about as 
wide as the diameter of the att becoming darker in color and 
much less tomentose with ag 
TYPE: number not ied but Pringle 1791, Jalisco, is 
cited. Here also belong: Pringle 8227, 8719, 9602, 9693, More- 
los; Rose & Painter 7380, 7390, 7537, 7640, Jalisco: Rose 3000, 
2496, Xacetecas, Rose & Hough 4828, Jalisco; Nelson 3520, 
Guatemala; 7046, Guerrero; Langlassé 572, Guerrero; Bourgeau 
1200, Morelos; Goldman 1024, Chiapas; Mr. & Mrs. Lemmon 
251, Morelos. 
There is a wide range of variation in the degree of pubescence 
of the leaves, and in the reticulation of the lower surface. 
9. Heliocarpus viridis E. E. Watson, sp. nov. 
Shrub or small tree; young stems light yellowish brown, lon- 
opie striolate, white-punctate, stellate-puberulent, seating 
leaves rather small, more or less three-lobed, lobes acute, 
chine -nerved, concolor, crenate, upper surface slightly erect- 
