Fig. 27. — NiitaUafrutieoaa. 



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11. Terminal ivin;i of fruit acute; South American specie*. 



Nissolia fruticosa Jacq. Enum. PI. Carib. 27. 1700. Nissolia racemosa DC. Prodr. 

 2:257. 1825. (Fide Bentli.) FIGURE 27. 



I have seen no authentically named specimens of this species, but if the illustra- 

 tion in Hooker's Icones (which in part is here reproduced) and the one in Flora 

 Mrasiliensisare correct all our Mexican 

 material is to be excluded. N. hirsuti- 

 floraDC, usually referred as a synonym 

 of this .species, is to be restored to spe- 

 cific rank. Fruiting specimens col- 

 lected by Fendler in Venezuela in 1854 

 and 1855 (No. 194) and now in Herb. 

 Gray answer this species better than 

 anything else which 1 have seen. 



UNCERTAIN SPECIES. 



Nissolia platycarpa Benth. in Mart. 

 Fl. Bras. 15, pt. 1:77. 1859. 



1 have not been able to place this Mexi- 

 can species, owing to the very meager 



description. Dr. Gray thought it was the same as A r . wislizeni, and in the Biologia 

 it is stated to be the same as N. schottii. Mr. Hemsley suggests that it is the same 

 as Palmer's No. 248, in part, for which I have proposed the name N, dodgei. 



The type of the species is Coulter's plant from Zimapan, State of Hidalgo, and 

 hence widely separated from Palmer's locality in Coahuila. A T . platycarpa is de- 

 cribed as having the fruit one-nerved, and in this respect differs from all the species 

 which I have seen. 



Nissolia (?) sp. 



Palmer's No. 7, from Acapulco. has much the appearance of this genus, although 

 the specimens do not conform to any of the above descriptions. 



NOTES ON RUTACEAE. 



To the notes on this order published earlier in this volume 1 the 

 following are to be added: 



ZANTHOXYLUM. 



Zanthoxylum insulare 3 Rose, North Am. Fauna, No. 14 : 79. 1899. 



Tree fi to 20 meters high, thornless ; leaves oddly pinnate ; leaflets 6 or 7 pairs, oppo- 

 site, sessile, obovate to spatulate, obtuse or refuse, 2 to 3.5 cm. long, crenate, with 

 large pellucid dots between the teeth ami small scattered dots over the surface, 

 glabrous; tlowers unknown ; fruit small, in a rather compact panicle; pedicels very 

 short; stipe short or thick. 



Collected by E. W. Nelson on Maria Madre Island. May 3 to 25, 1897 (No. 4278). 



Zanthoxylum longipes Rose, sp. nov. 



Probably a tree; branches with a few small, scattered, hooked spines; young 

 branches green, somewhat angular, glabrous or slightly puberulent (likewise the 

 leaflets) ; leaves small on short petioles; leaflets always 3, quite variable in outline, 

 some orbicular to oblong, others obovate to lanceolate, 1 to 3 cm. long, shining 

 above, with many pellucid dots, the margin undulate, sessile or subsessile, rounded 



'No. 3, pp. 110 to 113. 



-The original description is here reproduced. 





