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petiolulate, large, 2.5 to 5 cm. broad, nearly orbicular in outline, not peltate, cordate 

 at base, terminal ones sometimes rounded, obtusely 3 to 7-lobed; glabrous except a 

 few stout hairs on the veins beneath (as also on the rachis) ; inflorescence polyga- 

 mous, 3 to (} dm. long, nearly naked; filament slender, elongated; anthers linear, 

 apicnlate; stigma filiform 6 to 8 mm. long; style persistent, glabrous; akenes ilat- 

 tened, strongly nerved. 



Collected by iir. C. (J. Pringle near Cuernavaca, 1896 (No. 6392). 



Perhaps nearest T. grandiflora Watson. 

 Wissadula acuminata Kose, sp. nov. 



Stems several feet high; leaves lanceolate, somewhat 3-lobed, lateral lobes small, 

 acute, middle lobes Jong-acuminate, 12.5 to 15 em. long including the petiole (3.7 to 

 5 cm. long), deeply cordate at base with an open sinus, crenate, bright green and 

 somewhat pubescent above, pale (nearly white) and densely stellate-pubescent 

 beneath; stipules filiform, deciduous, lower flowers solitary and axillary on elon- 

 gated peduncles 2.5 cm. long, upper ones in rather dense clusters, the peduncles 

 much shorter; calyx 12 mm. long, cleft below the middle; lobes 5, ovate, long-acu- 

 minate; petals yellow; capsule depressed, densely stellate; carpels 5, 6 mm. long, 

 obtuse but shortly apicnlate, one celled but constricted below; lower cavity one- 

 seeded; upper cavity with two collateral seeds; seeds smooth. 



Collected by Mr. C. G. Pringle near Tula, State of Hidalgo, October 24, 1896 (No. 

 6610). 



This is near JV.pringlei, but differs in the shape and color of the leaves, its longer- 

 acuminate sepals, smaller and less aristate carpels, etc. 



