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Abutilon reticulatum Rose, sp. iinv. 



A shrub 3 to 4.5 motors high; young branches densely white- velvety ; leaves very 

 variable, often very large; petioles often 15 cm. long, the blade nearly orbicular, 

 sometimes 15 to 25 era. iu diameter, acuminate, occasionally faintly 3-lobed, with a 

 deep sinus at base, denticulate, densely velvety on both sides, greener and becoming 

 nearly glabrous above, white and permanently pubescent beneath, there also some- 

 what prominently reticulated; stipules large, ovate, acute, somewhat cordate at 

 base, deciduous; inflorescence somewhat variable, terminating stem or branches, 

 sometimes appearing as a simple raceme, at other times as a long open panicle, ft dm. 

 long; calyx deeply 5-parted; lobes broadly ovate, acute, 5 to 6 nun. long, villous on 

 both sides; petals yellow, 12 mm. long; base of stamen tube swollen, densely stel- 

 late; carpels 9, long-pilose, acute at tip, 3-seeded. 



Collected by Mr. C. (I. I'ringle (Xo. 6062) in the State of Oaxaca; by Rev. Lucius 

 C. Smith (No. 322) on Monte Alban, near the city of Oaxaca, altitude 5,800 feet, 

 November 23 and 21, 1894; and by Mr. E. W. Nelson between Copala and Juchitango, 

 altitude 200 to 600 feet, February 9, 181)5 (No, 2296). The species has been in culti- 

 vation for several years in the botanical greenhouses at Washington (J. N. Rose, 

 No. 1122). 



This species has been distributed in Mr. Pringlo's sets as A. rerentum, with which 

 it is closely allied, but from which it di tiers in having more reticulate leaves, differ- 

 ent calyx, etc. This may be the little-known A. andnuxii, but the latter is described 

 as an herb, the inflorescence as a broad cymose panicle, etc. 



Mr. E. G. Raker points out that this species is allied to A. datum Griseb., but has 

 different pubescence on the carpels. The most striking difference is in the velvety 

 branches (not at all pilose) and in tho large more or less imbricating stipules, which 

 almost hide the stem in its upper parts. 



Mr. Greenman has also more lately compared my species with A. elatttm, and under 

 date of October 28, 18SI8, writes as follows: 



"I have compared your Abutilon with A. datum Griseb., and it is not the same. 

 Grisebach's species is represented here by a specimen collected in Jamaica by Wil- 

 son and labeled in Grisebach's handwriting. In A. datum the stem and petioles are 

 velvety-tomentose, but the pubescence is decidedly longer and of a more villous 

 nature than in your plant. Moreover, in A. elatum the nerves on the under surface 

 of the leaves are covered with short stellate hairs, but having long spreading villous 

 hairs intermixed." 



Abutilon reveutum Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 21 : 418. 1886. 



Collected by J. N. Rose at San Juan Capistrano, August 22, 1897 (No. 2463), and 

 at Holafios, September 10 to 19 (No. 2905). 



This species, based upon Dr. Palmer's South Chihuahuan species, has since been 

 found only along our southern border. It may be expected in tho tropical valleys 

 north from the State of Jalisco. 



Abutilon venosum Walp. Ann. 2 : 158. 1851. 



A shrub. 



Collected by E. A. Goldman at Huanchinango, State of Puebla, altitude 5,000 feet, 

 January 8, 1898 (No. 14). 



This species had not been reported from Mexico. It corresponds exactly with 

 specimens from Central America. 



Abutilon sp. 



Leaves and fruit of an Abutilon were collected by J. N. Rose at Mazatlan in June, 

 1897, which Mr. Baker says is near A. permollis Sweet. This species, however, has 

 not heretofore been reported from Mexico. 



