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10-15 cm. long, 5-6 cm. broad, acuminate at the apex, rounded at the base, glabrous above, or 

 puberulent along the midvein, loosely hirsute along the veins and green beneath, panicle as 

 long as or longer than the leaves, the branches densely flowered, angled, reflexed, puberulent; 

 flowers short-pedicelled, the pedicels jointed at the middle or below; calyx puberulent, the 

 lobes irregular, mostly obtuse; petals oblong, 7-7.5 mm. long, 1.5-1.8 mm. broad, reflexed, 

 obtuse, densely velvety-puberulent with short appressed hairs; filaments glabrous; anthers 

 oblong or oblong-elliptic; ovary glabrous; style glabrous, exserted. 



Type locality: Near Cuernavaca, Morelos. 

 Distribution: Mexico. 



13. Cedrela impari-pinnata C. DC; Donn. Smith, Bot. 

 Gaz. 19: 4. 1894. 



Tree; leaves odd-pinnate, 3.4 dm. long, long-petioled, the rachis puberulent; leaflets 7-11, 

 opposite, lanceolate, 8 cm. long, 3 cm. broad, acuminate at the apex, equilateral and acute at 

 the base, subsessile, membranaceous, pellucid-dotted, puberulent on both sides; capsule oblong, 

 the valves lanceolate, 5-5.5 cm. long, about 12-15 mm. broad at the middle; seeds elliptic- 

 oblong, 3-3.5 cm. long. 



Type locality: Volcan de Fuego, Guatemala. 

 Distribution: Guatemala. 



Doubtful species 

 Cedrus alTERNifolius Mill. Gard. Diet. ed. 8. Cedrus no. 3. 1768. Cedrela alternifolia 

 Steud. Nom. Bot. Phan. 170. 1821. Swielenia alternifolia Steud. Nom. Bot. ed. 2. 2: 653. 1841. 

 A large tree of Campeche, Mexico, with alternate, simple, cordate-ovate acute leaves- resem- 

 bling those of the witch-hazel. 



