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SCIIIZOCARPTTM. 



The genus Sehizocarpuni is restricted to Mexico and Central America. 

 Only a single species is recorded iu the Biologia Central:- Americana. 

 The genus is now represented by the six following species, one of them 

 here first described : 



Schizocarpum guatemalense Cogn. Bot. Gaz. 20: 290. 1895. 



Wo have a duplicate type of this species. 

 Schizocarpum palmeri Coga. & Rose, Contr. Nat. Herb. 1: 100. 1891. 



Collected by Dr. Edward Palmer at Ymala, September 25 to Octobers, 1SD1 (No. 

 1693). These specimens contain mature fruit and show that it is really 3-celled and 

 not 2-celled as originally described. 



We have the type of this species. 

 Schizocarpum liebmannii Co^n. in DC. Monogr. Phan. 3:553. 1S81. 

 Schizocarpum filiforme Schrad. Linnaea, 6, Lit. Per. : 73. 1831. 



This rare species has recently been collected by Rev. Lucius ('. Smith on the Ran- 

 cho de Calderon, San Juan del Estado, altitude 1,545 meters, November 4, 1894 (No. 

 302); also by Mr. E. VV. Nelson in the vicinity of La. Parada, altitude 2,460 to 2,797 

 meters, August 19. 1894 (No. 998); also by Mr. C. G. Pringle on dry bluffs, Sierra de 

 Kan Felipe, Oaxaca, altitude 2,303 meters, October 11, 1891 (No. 4,980). 



Schizocarpum parviflorum Robinson & Greenman, Proe. Am. Acad. 29: 386. 

 1894. 



We have a duplicate typo of this species. 

 Schizocarpum attenuatum Cogn. & Rose, sp. nov. Plate VI. 



Alow-climbing plant; younger branches angled, pubescent and with a few scat- 

 tering stiff hairs; ieaves ovate with a broad open sinus, 3-lobed, obtuse, deutieu 

 late, pubernlent above and beneath, flowers axillary, solitary ; pedicels of the male 

 flower 37 mm. long, female 8 to 16 mm. long; sepals minute, filiform ; corolla yellow, 

 about 5 cm, long, with a cylindrical tube and long, attenuate lobes; stamens 3; 

 fruit 3-augled, 3 to 6 era. long, tapering at base, attenuate above into a slender beak; 

 pubernlent, 3-celIed, each cell divided into 2 lows of 2 to 3 secondary cells, each 

 1 -seeded ; seeds flattened, somewhat apatnlato, 8 to 10 mm. long, banded crosswise by 

 light and dark stripes. 



Collected by Dr. Edward Palmer at Acapulco, October, 1891 (No. 12). 



This well-marked species differs from others of this genus in the attenuate lobes 

 of the corolla. 



Type in the National Herbarium. 



Explanation o? Plate.— Fig. 1, Howoring branch: fig, 'J, fruiting branch; fig.3. frnii with outer 

 coveting removed : scale <j. 



All these species are rare in collections, but it will be seen from the 

 above that the National Herbarium contains five of the six, Coin' of 

 which are types. 



SPECIES OF OTHER GENERA. 



Roseanthus albifloruj Cogn. Contr. Nat. Herb. 3: 578, 1. 2S, 18il(). 



The type of this species is in the National Herbarium. The seed came from Aca- 

 pulco, where it was collected by Dr. Edward Palmer in 1893. 

 Sicyos angulata L. Sp. PL 2: 1013. 1753. 



Collected by Mr. E. W. Nelson near San Cristobal, State of Chiapas, altitude 2,303 

 to 2,803 meters, September 18, 1895 (No. 3148). 

 Sicyos echinocystoides Cogn. Contr. Nat. Herb. 3:319. 1895. 



Collected by Dr. Edward Palmer at Topic, January 5 to February 6, \W2 (No. 

 189 1 ). 



The type (No. -178) is in the National Herbarium. 



