Part 1, 1907] ERYTHROXYLACEAE 61 



acute ; petals oblong, white, 2.5 mm. long, obtuse, the ligule-lobes lacerate, one half as 

 long as the blade ; drupes oblong, acutish, grooved, 6 mm. long. 



Type locality : Vuelta de Abajo, Cuba. 

 Distribution : Cuba. 



4. Erythroxylon pedicellare (Griseb.) O. E. Schulz, Symb. 

 Ant. 5: 211. 1907. 

 Erythroxylon alaicrnifolium pedicellare Griseb. Cat. PI. Cuba 41. 1866. 



A shrub about 2.4 m. high. Leaves obovate or oblong-obovate, 2 cm. long or less, 9- 

 11 mm. wide, emarginate at the apex, acute at the base, coriaceous, rather conspicuously 

 reticulate-veined and shining above, dull and with bluish veins beneath, the petioles 2 mm. 

 long or less, the triangular obtuse stipules about one half as long as the petiole ; flowers 

 1-3 together in the axils; pedicels 4-7 mm. long; calyx about 1.5 mm. long, cleft to about 

 the middle, its lobes triangular-ovate, acute ; petals oblong, the claw nearly one half as 

 long as the blade, the ligule about as long as the claw, its lobes obtuse ; styles of dolicho- 

 stylous flowers connate about two thirds their length. 



Type locality' : Cuba. 



Distribution : Known only from the type locality. 



5. Erythroxylon Urbani O. E. Schulz, Symb. Ant. 4 : 314. 1905. 

 A shrub, 1 m. high. Leaves obovate, cuneate or acute at the base, rounded or slightly 

 emarginate at the apex, coriaceous, 2-3.5 cm. long, strongly reticulate-veined, bright-green 

 and shining above, pale-green or glaucescent beneath ; petioles 2.5-3.5 mm. long ; stipules 

 triangular, acute, 2-setulose at the apex, 1.5-3 mm. long; pedicels solitary in the axils, 

 shorter than the petioles, about 1 mm. long; calyx cleft to about the middle, about 1 mm. 

 long, its lobes ovate, acute; petals white, 2.5 mm. long, oblong, obtuse, the claw nearly or 

 quite as long as the obtuse blade, the ligule-lobes acute, one third as long as the blade. 



Type locality : Limestone mountains along Rio Arriba Salieute, near Manati, Porto Rico. 

 Distribution : Porto Rico. 



6. Erythroxylon brevipes DC. Prodr. 1 : 573. 1824. 

 Usually a shrub, sometimes a small tree up to 5 m. high, much branched, the branchlets 

 gray, many of them short and rigid. Leaves obovate, 0.8-2.5 cm. long, 0.6-1.5 cm. wide, 

 rather firm in texture when the plant grows in the sun, thinner when in the shade, rather 

 prominently or quite inconspicuously reticulate-veined, obtuse or emarginate at the apex, 

 narrowed at the base, rather dark -green and dull or faintly shining above, pale beneath, 

 the petioles 0.5-2 mm. long, the stipules triangular-ovate, acute, about as long as the peti- 

 oles; flowers solitary or 2-4 together in the axils, white, about 5 mm. broad; pedicels 2-8 

 mm. long; calyx deeply cleft, its lobes ovate, acute; petals oblong, obtuse, 2.5-3.5 mm. 

 long, the claw shorter than the blade, the ligule-lobes irregularly erose, one third to one 

 half as long as the blade ; drupes oblong, obtuse, red, 6-9 mm. long. 



Type locality : Porto Rico. 



Distribution: Cuba; Haiti; Porto Rico; St. Thomas to Guadeloupe. 



7. Erythroxylon rotundifolium Lunan, Hort. Jam. 2 : 116. 1814. 



Erythroxylon brevipes spinescens Griseb. Cat. PI. Cuba 41. 1866. 



Erythroxylon spinescens O. E. Schulz, Symb. Ant. 4 : 313. 1905. Not E. spinescens A. Rich. 1845. 



Erythroxylon suave O. E. Schulz, Symb. Ant. 5: 197. 1907. 



Erythroxylon suave jamaicense O. E. Schulz, loc. cit. 1907. 



Erythroxylon suave aneurum O. E. Schulz, loc. cit. 1907. 



A tree, 7 m. high or less, with a trunk sometimes 2.5 dm. in diameter, or more com- 

 monly shrubby, the branchlets slender, flexible, erect-ascending or drooping, the bark 

 smooth. Leaves obovate, varying to obovate-obloug or elliptic, obtuse or emarginate, 0.5-3 

 cm. long, thin, firm or coriaceous in texture when mature, dark-green and dull or some- 

 what shiningabove, pale beneath, inconspicuously reticulate-veined, their petioles 2.5-5 mm. 

 long, the ovate or ovate-lanceolate stipules 1-1.5 mm. long, acute or acuminate ; flowers 

 1-4 in the axils ; pedicels mostly as long as the petioles or longer ; calyx cleft to about the 



