126 Watson: THE GENUS HELIOCARPUS 
pistillate flowers; fruit stipitate, oval-orbicular, body about 2.5 
mm. in diameter, faces densely hirsute, but without plumose 
hairs, fringe 4 mm. wide, extending down the stipe. 
Type: J. Donnell Smith 1722, Guatemala. This species 
seems to be quite widely distributed. Here belong:—Pére 
Duss 1367, Martinique; Curran 7, Martinique; Hahn 1340, 
Martinique; Baker 2490, Nicaragua; Kellerman 6068, Guatemala; 
Goll 255, Guatemala; Rovirosa 120, Tabasco; C. L. Smith rooz, 
Vera Cruz. 
19. Heliocarpus rudis E. E, Watson, sp. nov. 
Tree, 15-25 m. high, bark smooth; young stems and branches 
of the panicle and petioles with dense, ferruginous, tufted pubes- 
cence, rough to the touch; leaves very broadly ovate, irregularly 
serrate, three-lobed but not deeply, often integral, lobes acute, 
of four or five long, slender, flexible hairs 8-9 mm. in length, 
mature leaves 18 cm. long and wide, petioles 12 cm. long; 
panicle rather small; flowers unisexual or polygamous; pistillate 
Is none, 
stipe less than 2 m 
slightly hirsute, with a few plumose hairs, about one-eighth as 
long as the fringe which is 5 mm. wide. 
TyPeE: Pittier 3082, Panama, in the U.S. National Herbarium. 
20. HELIOCARPUS NopIFLORUS (Donnell Smith) Donnell Smith 
‘& Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 5: 126. 
H. polyandrus var. nodiflorus Donnell Smith, Bot. Gaz. 23: 240. 
1897. 
_ Tree; branches longitudinally striolate, very smooth, slightly 
stellate and hirsute, glabrescent; leaves integral, broad ovate, 
blade 18 X 14 cm. wide, often smaller, petioles 10 cm. long, 
the nerves, lower surface moderately dense appressed stellate, 
conspicuously dense, yellow, tomentose in the nerve axils, and at 
the attachment of the petiole, petioles glabrate, panicle rather ° 
small, leafy ; flowers in dense, nodose, clusters; sepals four, hooded, 
tuberculate; petals smaller than sepals, four-nerved, very glan- 
