Comarostaphylis polifolia subsp. polifolia

Comarostaphylis hartwegiana Klotzsch, Linnaea 24: 77. 1851
Arctoslapkylos Hartwegiana Hemsl. Biol. Centr. Am. Bot. 2: 278. 1881.
A shrub with red-hirsutulous and glandular twigs ; leaf-blades linear, usually narrowly so on account of the strongly revolute margins, 1.5-3 cm. long, acute or abruptly pointed, entire, rugose and minutely pubescent above, tomentulose beneath and with longer glandular hairs near the base, short-petioled ; panicles rather closely flowered, the rachis and pedicels densely glandular-hirsutulous with reddish hairs; calyx 5-6 mm. wide, the lobes ovate or deltoid-ovate, obtuse or acutish, tomentulose; corolla about 6 mm. long; stamens 3-3.5 mm. long, the filaments villous, especially at the dilated base; drupes not seen.
Type locawty: Bolanos, Colotlan, Jalisco. Distribution : Colotlan.

Comarostaphylis angustifolia Klotzsch, Linnaea 24: 74. 1851
Arctostaphylos angustifolia Hemsl. Biol. Centr. Am. Bot. 2: 278. 1881.
A shrub with puberulent and finely pubescent twigs; leaf-blades narrowly oblong to broadly linear, 3-6 cm. long, more or less attenuate at both ends, remotely serrate, somewhat revolute, bright-green and glabrous above, pale and ultimately glabrous beneath except the midrib and veins, short-petioled; panicles loosely flowered, the rachis and pedicels glandularpilose; calyx about 5 mm. wide, the lobes ovate, acute or acutish, sparingly pubescent and ciliolate; corolla 6-7 mm. long; stamens about 3 mm. long, the filaments villous; drupes globular, 5-6 mm. in diameter.
Type locality: Mexico.
Distribution: Middle and southern Mexico.

Comarostaphylis caeciliana (Loesener) Small
Arctostaphylos Caeciliana Loesener, Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2: 553. 1894,
A shrub with tomentulose twigs; leaf -blades broadly lanceolate to oblong, orsometime
oval, 3-6 cm. long, obtuse or abruptly sharp-pointed, entire, thickish, somewhat revolute and
undulate, glabrous above, more or less tomentulose-lanate beneath, short-petioled; panicles
rather loosely flowered, the rachis and pedicels glandular-pubescent; calyx 4—4.5 mm,, wide,
the lobes ovate, acute or acutish, ciliolate; corolla about 5 mm. long; stamens about 3 mm.
long, the filaments villous ; drupes globular, 4—5 mm. in diameter.
Type locality: Near Huitzo, Oaxaca.
Distribution: Oaxaca.

Comarostaphylis nochistlanensis (Loesener) Small
Arctostaphylos nochistlanensis I^oesener, Bull. Herb. Boiss. II. 3; 220. 1903.
A shrub with finely pubescent twigs; leaf-blades oblong, often narrowly so, oblonglanceolate or lanceolate, 3-5.5 cm. long, obtuse or mucronate, serrulate, glabrous above, at least at maturity, and somewhat shining, pale and minutely pubescent beneath, short-petioled; panicles closely flowered, the rachis and pedicels closely glandular-hirsutulous ; calyx about 5 mm. wide, the lobes triangular-ovate to triangular-lanceolate, acuminate, glandular-pubescent, ciliolate; corolla about 6 mm. long; stamens 2.5-3 ram. long, the filaments villous; drupes globular, 4-5 mm. in diameter.
Type locality: Near Tillantongo, Nochistlan, Oaxaca. Distribution: Oaxaca.

Comarostaphylis microcarpa Small, sp. nov
A shrub with minutely tomentulose twigs; leaf -blades linear to linear-oblanceolate, 3-7 cm. long, acute or mucronulate, entire, thickish, slightly revolute, glabrous, minutely reticulate and somewhat shining above, minutely tomentulose and reticulate beneath, short-petioled ; panicles loosely flowered, the rachis and pedicels minutely glandular-pubescent; calyx 3-4 mm. wide, the lobes ovate, abruptly pointed, obscurely ciliolate; corolla not seen; drupes globular or somewhat depressed, about 3 mm. in diameter.
Type collected in the Sierra Madre, Territorio de Tepic, Mexico, August 13, 1897, /. N. Rose 3466 (U.S. Nat. Herb.). Distribution: Tepic.