122 Watson: THE GENUS HELIOCARPUS 
mentose, lower surface lighter, deep green, slightly tomentose 
(under lens), nerves hi e; panicles corymbiform; flowers 
almost sessile, bracts persistent; sepals four or five, linear, tuber- 
culate; petals not much shorter than the sepals; ovary hirsute, 
style bifid more than half its length, the androgynophore sur- 
rounded by a conspicuous pilose ring. Fruit not seen. 
Type: Poeppig 3102, Delessert Herbarium, habitat unknown. 
I have not seen this specimen, but I strongly doubt the valid- 
ity of its position in the germs Heliocarpus, particularly on ac- 
count of the pilose ring about the androgynophore and the fact 
that the species was described without the fruit. . : 
12. HELIOCARPUS APPENDICULATUS Turcz. Bull. Soc. Nat. 
Moscou 31: 226, 8 
rty; ovary long-stipitate, narrowly 
oval; style shorter than ovary, deeply bifid, lobes spreading; fruit 
long-stipitate, oval or orbicular, body about 3 mm. long, faces 
ensely hirsute-tomentose, but without plumose hairs, fringe 4-6 
mm. wide, extending down the stipe 
Type: Linden 2065, Tabasco; Maxon & Hay 3305, 3300, 
3322, Guatemala; von Tiirckheim 7828, 8500, Guatemala; 
Rose & Hough 4314, Vera Cruz; Nelson 4385, San Luis Potosi; 
Collins & Doyle 255, Chiapas. 
ere is some variability in the appendages at the sinus; 
usually they are oval or auriculate and entire, but occasionally 
they are serrate and glandular. 
oi: 
H. americanus var. typica Schum. in part, in Martius, Fl. Bras. 
42: 141. 
13. HELIOCARPUS TOMENTOSUS Turcz. Bull. Soc. Nat. 
Moscou 255. 1858 
Small tree; stems and young branches slightly stellate-pu- 
berulent; leaves ovate, integral, very rarely lo} minate 
base round, petiolate, seldom more than 11 cm. long and 8 cm. 
