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New Mexico : 



Piuos Altos Mountains, E. L. Greene (No. 332), September 8, 1N80; A. FendlerlSo 



56), 1847; also C. Wright (No. 868), 1851. 

 Colorado: 



Br. Hay den, 1869. 



^^Intcrnodes slightly longer than the leans; bracts always shorter than the pedicels; 



calyx always shortn- than the pedicels; sepals rounded at apex, faintly S-nerred; petal's 



much longer than the calyx; capsule longer than the calyx. 

 Drymaria confusa Rose, sp. now 



Small glabrous annual, 5 to 7.5 cm. high, scarcely branching at base; radical 

 leaves small, orbicular, 4 to 6 mm. long including the slender petiole; stem leaves 

 linear, a little shorter than the internodes; pedicels sometimes 8 mm. long, nearly 

 always twice longer than the calyx; sepals oblong, obtuse, scarious-ma'rgined; 

 faintly 3-nerved, petals longer than the calyx, deeply 2-parted. 



Collected by Dr. Edward Palmer in southwestern Chihuahua in 1885 (No. 59). 



This species is near 1). tenella, but of somewhat different habit, with longer pedi- 

 cels, fainter nerves, somewhat differently shaped sepals, and longer petioles. 



Distributed and listed 1 by Dr. Watson as D. tenella. 1886. 



DESCRIPTIONS OF MISCELLANEOUS NEW SPECIES. 



Abutilon bakerianum Rose, sp. nov. Pr ate XI 



Small tree, 45 to 60 dm. high ; branches, calyx, and young leaves with reddish stel- 

 late pubescence; leaves broadly ovate, cordate at base, acuminate, palmately 7 to 

 9-nerved, 10 to 12.5 cm. long, 8.7 to 12.5 cm. broad, green and somewhat stellate- 

 pubescent above, paler, more reticulate and stellate beneath; margin slightly undu- 

 late; petioles 3.7 to 6.2 cm. long, peduncles 2 to 3 in the axils of the up"per* leaves, 

 3.7 to 10 cm. long, articulated about 12 mm. below the apex; calyx 8 mm. or less 

 long, cleft to the middle; lobes 3 or 5, ovate, acute; corolla light yellow, 7.5 cm. in 

 diameter; petals oblique, notched or sometimes cleft nearly to the* base, nearly gla- 

 brous; staminal tube short; styles 12, as long as stamens, glabrous; fruit in our 

 specimens immature, stellate-pubescent ; carpels obtuse. 



Collected by Mr. C. G. Pringle in the Tomellin canyon, State of Oaxaca, Mexico, 

 altitude 3,500 feet, December 1, 1X95 (No. 6278). This species must be near A. macran- 

 thum Peyr.- if not really that species. The name A. macranthum can not be used here, 

 however, being preoccupied by a South American species; otherwise I should cer- 

 tainly have adopted it. Whether it shall prove to be Peyritsch's plant or an unde- 

 scribed one, the above new name will hold. It is a pleasure to be aide to dedicate 

 such a handsome species to Mr. E. (i. Baker, for without his careful monograph of 

 this genus the determination of the species would have been almost a hopeless task. 

 Our plant comes near A. discolor' Baker til. and A. notolophium* Gray (both founded 

 upon Perlandier's 2163), but is apparently different. From the description, it diners 

 especially in its much smaller calyx. I have not seen the type of either, but Mr. .J. 

 M. Greenman has kindly compared my specimens with the type specimens of the lat- 

 ter now in the Gray Herbarium. I quote the following from his letter of April 11 

 1896 : ' 



1 Proc. Am. Acad. 21 : 417. 1886. 



2 Linnaea, 50 : 59. 1859. 

 a Journ.Bot.31:73. 1893. 



4 Proc. Am. Acad. 5 : 175. 1861. 

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