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Drupe subglobose, mostly over 8 mm. long ; leaf-blades 

 more or less revolute. 29. M. coccigera. 



1. Malpighia mexicana A. Juss. Ann. Sci. Nat. II. 13 : 337. 1840. 



Bunchosia guadalajarensis S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 22 : 401. 1887. 

 Malpighia oaxacana Niedzu.; Loesener, Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2: 544. 1894. 

 Malpighia guadalajarensis Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 1 : 310. 1895. 



Leaf-blades elliptic or oval, varying to ovate, obovate, ovate-lanceolate, or obovate- 

 oblanceolate, 2-10 cm. long, acute or acuminate, or sometimes obtuse or emarginate, more 

 or less pubescent, thinly so or glabrate above, tomentose, usually densely and permanently 

 so beneath, narrowed to the short petiole ; cymes peduncled, one third to one half the length 

 of the leaves, the branches tomentulose ; sepals ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 2.5-3 mm. long, 

 densely pubescent, the glands about one half the length of the sepal-body ; corolla purple 

 or purplish, 16-20 mm. wide, the larger petals mostly 7-9 mm. long; drupes depressed, 

 often half-globose, 10-12 mm. long, much wider, red. 



Type locality : Mexico. 



Distribution : Durango to Jalisco and Oaxaca. 



Illustration : Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2 : pi. 20, f. 6-12 (as Malpighia oaxacana) . 



2. Malpighia subglabrata (Niedzu.) Small. 



Malpighia mexicana f. subglabrata Niedzu. Gen. Malp. 4. 1899. 



Leaf-blades ovate, 2.5-7 cm. long, obtuse at the apex, bright-green above, paler 

 beneath, glabrous and very finely reticulate in age, abruptly narrowed or rounded at the 

 base, very short-petioled ; cymes sessile or nearly so, the branches finely pubescent ; sepals 

 ovate, 2-2.5 mm. long, glabrous or nearly so, the glands much more than one half the 

 length of the sepal-body ; corolla not seen ; drupes depressed, fully 1 cm. long, red. 



Type locality : S. Augustino, Mexico. 

 Distribution : Known only from the type locality. 



3. Malpighia edulis Donn. Smith, Bot. Gaz. 24 : 291. 1901. 

 Leaf-blades elliptic to ovate-elliptic, 12-19 cm. long, acuminate, sparingly pubescent 

 above except on the veins, thinly tomentulose beneath, rather abruptly narrowed at the base, 

 short-petioled; cymes peduncled, one sixth to one eighth as long as the leaves, the branches 

 and the peduncle densely tomentulose ; sepals oblong-ovate, 3-4 mm. long, densely pubes- 

 cent, the glands about one half the length of the sepal-body ; corolla purple, 24-26 mm. 

 wide, the larger petals 11-13 mm. long ; drupes not seen. 



Type locality: La Carpintera, Costa Rica. 

 Distribution : Costa Rica. 



4. Malpighia diversifolia Brand. Zoe 5 : 104. 1901. 

 Leaf-blades oval or suborbicular, varying to ovate or obovate, 2-4 cm. long, obtuse or 

 rounded at the apex, tomentulose beneath, but thinly so at maturity, mostly rounded at the 

 base, short-petioled ; cj'ines few-flowered, long-peduncled, exceeding the leaves, the 

 branches tomentulose ; sepals lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, 3-4 mm. long, the glands 

 scarcely one half the length of the sepal-body ; corolla pink, 1S-20 mm. wide, the larger 

 petals 9-10 mm. long, the blades lacerate-denticulate ; drupes much depressed, about 1 cm. 

 long, red. 



Type locality : San Jose del Cabo, Lower California. 

 Distribution : Southern Lower California. 



5. Malpighia cordata Small, sp. nov. 

 Leaf -blades ovate to orbicular-ovate, 3-5 cm. long (during anthesis), obtuse, emarginate, 

 or abruptly short-pointed, thinly tomentulose or partially glabrous above, densely tomentose 

 beneath, subcordate or cordate at the base, short-petioled ; cymes long-peduncled, the 

 branches, like the peduncle, densely tomentose ; sepals ovate to oblong-ovate, about 3 mm. 

 long, densely pubescent, the glands full}' one half the length of the sepal-body ; corolla 

 purple, 20-24 mm. wide, the larger petals mostly 9-11 mm. long; drupe not seen. 



