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Cleonie humilis Rose, sp. noy. 



Animal, erect, slender, simple or somewhat branching, 10 to 30 cm. high, glabrous 

 except a little Beabrosity on stem, petioles, and blade; leaflets 3, linear-lanceolate, 

 acute, 6 to 30 mm. long, longer than the petioles; racemes loose, few-dowered; pedi- 

 cels (i to 8 mm. long; petals yellow, 3 to 4 mm. long; pods sessile, narrow, spread- 

 ing, 30 mm. long. 



Found in the tropical valleys of the table-land. Collected by J. N. Rose near San 

 Juan Capistrano, August 22, 1897 (No. 2429), and at Bolafios, September 10 to 19 

 (No. 2900). This species is very similar to C. tenuis Watson, but of different range 

 and with 3 instead of 5 leaflets, etc. 



Couepia polyandia (H. 15. K.) Rose. Hirtella polyandra II. II. K. Nov. Gen. et Sp. 

 6:246, t. 565. 1823. Moquilea Jcunthiana Mart. & Zucc. Abh. Akad. Muench. 1 : 390. 

 1830. Couepia Jcunthiana Benth. Hook. Journ. Bot. 2 : 21i>. 1810. 



This species was collected by Humboldt and Bnnpland near Acapnlco, and was 

 named and described by Kunth as a Hirtella, the fruit being then unknown. Mr. 

 I Iemsley also refers to this species a plant collected by Linden in Tabasco. These 

 are the only published records of the collection of this species. We have no authen- 

 tically named specimens in tho National Herbarium. The species has recently been 

 re-collected at the type locality by Dr. E. Palmer, also only in flower. I collected 

 the specimens at several places about Acaponeta, where it is certainly native and is 

 well known under the name of zapote. At Acapulco, Dr. Palmer states that it is 

 called zapote amarillo. The fruit is apparently eaten, but I saw none in the mar- 

 kets. The fruit is oblong, about 3 inches long, of yellow color and with a somewhat 

 roughened or warty skin. It contains one large seed which is attached at the base, 

 We now have the following specimens in tho National Herbarium: 



Dr. E. Palmer's No. 401 (1894-95) from Acapulco. 



J. N. Rose's Nos. 1515, 3120, 3310 (1897) from near Acaponeta. 

 Cuphea trichopetala Rose, sp. nov. Plate XXII. 



Stems weak, shrubby at base; branches glabrous, leaves usually much longer than 

 the internodes, lanceolate or oblanceolate, 5 to 11 cm. long, acute, sometimes slightly 

 acuminate, sessile or tapering into a broadly winged petiole more or less auriculate at 

 base, nearly smooth except on the veins ; inllorescence shorfr, terminal, few-flowered ; 

 calyx greenish, 16 mm. long, strongly spurred, glabrous within, more or less setose 

 without, the upper sepal slightly larger than tho 5 lower; the appendages alternat- 

 ing with, and shorter than the sepals, each 3 to 6 setose; two dorsal petals showy, 

 red, 7 mm. long, orbicular and rounded at apex, tapering at base into a slender claw ; 

 the 4 ventral petals reduced to long hairs. 11 mm. long, purplish at tip; stamens 11, 

 equally inserted and all glabrous, two dorsal included; 9 exserted, unequal, 5 longer; 

 style and ovary glabrous; seeds 10; gland large, reflexed. 



Collected by.l. N. Rose in a deep canyon just below Colomas, Sinaloa, altitude 2,000 

 feet, July 20, 1897 (No. 1769). 



This species is near the next and C. graciliflora, but differs in its leaves, petals, etc. 

 It is especially remarkable in having the four ventral petals reduced to long hairs, 

 which curl up at the tip much like a tendril. 



Explanation ok Plate.— Fig. 1, the upper part of tho plant ; flg. 2, flower w iili tho calyx split open 

 and tho 6 petals detached; fig. 3, the ovary and glands; fig*. 4 and ;">, lace and wide views of the seed. 

 Fig. 1, natural size; figs. 2 and 3, scale of 3. 



Cuphea cristata Rose, sp. nov. Plate XXIII. 



Plant more or less shrubby at base; brandies with minute appressed pubescence, 

 the internodes either short or elongated; leaves lanceolate, 7.o to 12 cm. long, 25 to 

 40 mm. broad, tapering at base into a short petiole, slightly roughened above, paler 

 beneath, mid-nerve and lateral veins somewhat prominent; inflorescence (in my 

 specimens) a short, dense, terminal leafless raceme; pedicels short; prophylla ovate, 

 deciduous; calyx slender, 28 to 30 mm. long, narrowly funnel-formed, glabrous 



