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brevissima carpellis in capsulam locnlicidem connatis triovulatis apice muticis versus 
basin paullo constrictis. 
Habitat, Mexico. Ymala. Dr. Ek. Palmer. No. 1720. Sept, 25 to Oct, &, 1891. 
Stem or branches woody, terete or subterete, glaucous, green, pubescent; leaves cor- 
date, ovate, acuminate, about 3 inches long by 24 inches broad, crenately serrated, 
petioles longer than the lamina; panicle lax, leafy; penduneles and calyx externally 
pilose and somewhat glandular; sepals triangular, acute, with a medial ridge; petals 
obovate, about 4 inch long; staminal column very short; carpels 3, united so as to 
form a loculicidally dehiseing capsule, which is muticous and slightly constricted 
near the base. 
This plant is closely related to Abutilon bastardioides, ‘The calyx is smaller and not 
nearly so much covered with brown pubescence. The staminal column is very much 
shorter and the carpels are fewer in number and constricted near the base, 
Malvaviscus palmeri Baker fil., sp. nov. 
Ramis ligneis, foliis cinereis vel cinereo-viridibus cordatis 3-5-palmatilobatis, lobo 
medio majore serratis petiolatis, floribus racemosis versus apicem congestis sessil- 
ibus vel subsessilibus racemis axillaribus et terminalibus, bracteolis linearibus calyee 
longioribus, sepalis triangularibus acutis vel acuminatis in medio carinatis petalis 
obovatis externe pubescentibus columna staminea exserta carpellis 5 dorso carinatis 
1-spermis. 
Habitat, Mexico. Tepic. Dr. E. Palmer. No. 1990. Jan. 5 to Feb, 6, 1892, 
Branches woody; leaves cordate, palmately 8- to 5-lobed, lobes acute, larger leaves 
on specimen 5 inches long by about the same broad, cimereous, rather lighter-colored 
below, finely stellately pubescent, the same below with the addition of stellate, stiff 
4-radiate hairs, petioles } inch long, possibly more; flowers racemose, racemes axil- 
lary and terminal, many-flowered, flowers closely aggregated and sessile or subsessile 
near the top. lower down longer peduncled and more laxly aggregated; bracts § to 
10, linear, slightly longer than the calyx; calyx triangular, acute or acuminate; 
petals not unguiculate, 4 inch long; staminal column exserted, + to § inch long; 
earpels 5, ridged on the back and pubescent, nearly 4 lines long, edges acute. 
I thought at first this might be W.? flavidus of De Candolle’s Prodromus, but it 
differs from this species completely in its inflorescence, that is, if I have rightly 
interpreted this latter species. In the Mocino and Sessé drawings there is no figure 
of M. flaridus, but there is one of Hibiscus flavidus, which name, however, does not 
appear in the Prodromus, The description in the Prodromus of WV. flavidus agrees 
with the figure of I/. flavidus. Mons. Casimir deCandolle and Mons, Buser, to whom 
IT am indebted for a tracing of the plant, suggest that they must be the same plant, 
with which suggestion I fully agree. 
Galphimia sessilifolia Rose, sp. noy. 
Low shrub, 3 to 9 dm. high, usually with stunted branches and internodes shorter 
than the leaves, in vigorous shoots the internodes twice as long as the leaves, gla- 
brous throughout except the inflorescence; leaves sessile, glabrous and glaucous on 
both sides, ovate, 1.6 to 3.6 em, long, acute; racemes either terminal or lateral, 5 to 
12.5 em, long; pedicels often slender, 6 to 201mm, long; bracts 1, small, setaceous; 
bractlets 2, borne on the pedicels, alternate, minute; buds reddish; sepals glabrous 
or nearly so, oblong, obtuse, 3mm. long, much shorter than the claw of the petals; 
petals yellow, tinged with red, 8 to 10 mm. long, including the slender claw. 
Collected by Mr. C. G, Pringle in the State of Oaxaca in 184 (No, 4901). 
Bursera glabrescens (Watson) Rose; 2. palmeri glabrescens Watson, Proc. Amer. 
Acad. xxv, 145 (1890). 
Shrub or small tree, 3.6 to 7.5 meters high, with dark-brown or blackish bark; 
leaflets 5 to 10 pairs, small, 4 cm. or less long, rarely 12 mm, wide, oblong, very 
rugose and becoming nearly glabrous above, strongly reticulated and pubescent 
beneath; rachis with narrow wings; inflorescence very much contracted, but racemes 
