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cm. long; capsule oval, 2-3 cm. long, 1.5-2 cm. wide, slightly compressed, coarsely 6-costate, 



lenticellate, finely tuberculate, brown; seeds oval or orbicular, 5-7 mm. long, brown. 



Type locality: Deep canyons near Guaymas, Sonora. 

 Distribution: Dry hillsides, Chihuahua and Sonora to Colima. 

 Illustrations: Garden & Forest 2: 209; Stand. Cycl. Hort./. 3148. 



4. Coutarea Lumaeana Baillon, Adansonia 12: 301. 1879. 



Portlandia Lumaeana Baillon, Hist. PI. 7: 381. 1880. 



Shrub, glabrous throughout, the branches slender, brownish, the internodes short; stipules 



deltoid, 2-4 mm. long; petioles slender, 3-6 mm. long; leaf-blades narrowly lance-oblong, 



8-1 1.5 cm. long, 1.5-3 cm. wide, obtuse to acuminate at the base, acuminate or long-acuminate 



at the apex, membranaceous, bright-green, concolorous, the venation prominent beneath, 



the lateral veins ascending at an acute angle, subarcuate; flowers axillary, solitary or in 3- 



flowered cymes, the pedicels slender, 5-14 mm. long, bracteolate below the middle, the bractlets 



small, subulate; hypanthium turbinate, 6-7 mm. long; calyx-lobes 6, linear-subulate, 1.5 cm. 



long; corolla white, 10 cm. long, symmetric, the tube narrowly obconic, 4.5 cm. broad in the 



throat, the 6 lobes plicate-imbricate, deltoid, acute, about one fourth as long as the tube; 



stamens 6, slightly shorter than the corolla; capsule oval-globose, 1.2-1.4 cm. long, coarsely 



6-costate; seeds suborbicular, 4-5 mm. long, brown. 



Type locality: Mountains of western Guatemala, at an altitude of 450 to 500 meters. 

 Distribution: Veracruz to Guatemala. 



5. Coutarea hexandra (Jacq.) K. Schumann, in Mart. Fl. 

 Bras. 6 6 : 196. 1889. 



Portlandia hexandra Jacq. Enum. PI. Carib. 16. 1760. 



Coutarea speciosa Aubl. PI. Guian. 314. 1775. 



Coutarea flavescens Moc. & Sesse; DC. Prodr. 4: 350. 1830. 



Portlandia speciosa Baillon, Hist. PI. 7: 381. 1880. 



Coutarea hexandra pubescens K. Schumann, in Mart. Fl. Bras. 6 6 : 198. 1889. 



Shrub or small tree, sometimes 5 meters high or more, the branchlets stout, brown or gray, 

 whitish-lenticellate, usually glabrous, sometimes short-pilose, the internodes usually elongate; 

 stipules deltoid, 2-4 mm. long, acute, mucronate, ciliate; petioles slender or stout, 3-11 mm. 

 long; leaf-blades ovate, elliptic-ovate, oval, or ovate-oval, 4.5-12 cm. long, 2-6 cm. wide, 

 rounded to acute at the base, usually acutely cuspidate-acuminate at the apex, sometimes 

 acute or obtusely short-acuminate, bright-green, concolorous, glabrous above or sparsely 

 short-pilose, the venation impressed, glabrous beneath or sometimes densely short-pilose, the 

 venation prominent, the lateral veins few, distant, arcuate, the margin plane; flowers mostly 

 in 3-flowered terminal and axillary cymes, sometimes solitary, the pedicels short, stout, bracte- 

 olate at the base, the bractlets lanceolate or subulate; hypanthium glabrous or sparsely pu- 

 berulent, sometimes densely pilose, 4-6 mm. long; calyx-lobes 6, lance-subulate or linear- 

 subulate, 5-12 mm. long; corolla white or yellowish, tinged with purple below, the tube gibbous, 

 1-2 cm. thick in the throat, terete, the 6 lobes contorted, ovate, acute or obtuse, usually about 

 one third as long as the tube, sometimes shorter; stamens usually exceeding the corolla-lobes, 

 the anthers yellow, 1.4-2 cm. long; capsule oblong-obovoid or oval-obovoid, 2.5-3.5 cm. long, 

 about 2 cm. wide, strongly compressed, shallowly bisulcate, dark-brown, lustrous, whitish- 

 lenticellate; seeds oval or orbicular, 8-10 mm. long, brown, the body 2-4 mm. long, broadly 

 winged, the wing entire or undulate. 



Type locality: [In thickets, Cartagena, Colombia]. 

 Distribution: Chiapas to Panama, southward to Peru and Argentina. 



Illustrations: Jacq. Sel. Stirp. Am. pi. 182, f. 20; Aubl. PI. Guian. pi. 122; Lam. Tab. Encyc 

 pi. 257 ',/. 2; Mart. Fl. Bras. 6 6 : pi. 108; Moc. & Sesse, Calq. Dess. pi. 459. 



40. BLEPHARIDIUM Standley, Jour. Wash. Acad. 8: 

 59. 1918. 



Shrubs or trees, the branchlets subterete. Leaves opposite, petiolate, the blades large, 

 chartaceous. Stipules intrapetiolar, large, thin, acuminate, entire, caducous. Flowers large, 

 pedicellate, in 3-flowered cymes, the cymes axillary, long-pedunculate, bibracteolate; hypan- 



