ROSE—-MEXICAN AND CENTRAL AMERICAN PLANTS. 4Y 
MALPIGHIACEAE. 
NEW SPECIES OF THREE GENERA. 
Aspicarpa lanata Rose, sp. nov. FIGureE 11, 
Stems nearly simple, erect or somewhat spreading, 1 to 7 dm. high; young 
branches densely pubescent; leaves in verticels of three or opposite, broadly to nar- 
rowly oblong, apiculate, appressed-pubescent above, densely white-lanate beneath, 
short-petioled, 3 to 6 cm. long; calyx bearing eight glands; petals yellow, 6 mm. 
long; stamens 5, 3 fertile; style solitary; ovaries 3, 1 to 3 maturing into 3-angled 
pyramidal nutlets, 6 mm. long, the inner face angled above. 
Specimens examined: 
Jalisco: Near Guadalajara, Palmer, 1886 (no. 
153), and Pringle, 1893 (no, 4222, type). 
Durango: Near Huasemote, J. N. Rose, August 
18, 1897 (no. 2214), and August 15 (nos, 
3493 and 3501), 
Mr. Watson referred Palmer’s plant to Gaudichau- Fig. 11.—Fruit of Aspicarpa lanata, 
dia mollis Benth, and states that in respect to flowers 
and foliage it is identical with Hartweg’s specimens. The fruit, however, is not 
that of Gaudichaudia, but rather that of Aspicarpa, with which it well agrees, 
Bentham’s type (Hartweg’s No. 14), a specimen of which is now in the Gray 
Herbarium, came from Zacatecas. This I have examined, and I am convinced that 
it is a totally different species. 
Gaudichaudia subverticillata Rose, sp. nov. 
Stems simple or somewhat branched, 5 to 8 dm. high, erect or nearly so, densely 
covered with a coarse appressed or spreading pubescence; leaves opposite or in ver- 
ticels of 3, oblong, 5 to 10 em. long, 1 to 3 em. wide, apiculate, subsessile, rough- 
pubescent on both sides; inflorescence terminal, either strict or forming an open 
panicle; flowers usually in dense verticillate clusters; pedicels slender; calyx bearing 
7 to 9 glands, 5-lobed; sepals 3 mm, long, oblong, obtuse, petals 5, 6 to 7mm. long, 
yellow, with lacerate margin; stamens 5, all perfect; styles 3; samarce 3, each sur- 
rounded by a thin marginal wing, 10 to 12 mm. in diameter, hardly if at all winged 
on the back, more or less pubescent. 
Collected by J. N. Rose on the road between Huejuquilla and Mesquitec, Jalisco, 
August 25, 1897 (no. 2558, type), in the same State near San Juan Capistrano, August 
23 (no, 2501) and near Huasemote, August 15 (no. 3492). 
This species differs from all the other Gaudichaudia species in having three styles. 
The stamens are also all perfect. The fruit, however, is so cl ‘arly of this genus 
that I do not hesitate to refer 1t as above. 
Hiraea parviflora Rose, sp. nov. 
Shrub, 15 to 24dm. high; young branches densely tomentose, the older brownish, 
becoming glabrate; leaves small, less than 2.5 em. long, oblong, acute, rounded 
at base, densely tomentose on both sides, shortly petiolate; umbels 2-flowered, short- 
peduneled; pedicels slender, 12 mm. long, bibracteate some distance below the 
middle; calyx yillose, 8-glandular; petals glabrous, orbicular, small, 4 mm. long, 
tapering at base into a slender claw, violet; stamens 10, glabrous, free nearly to the 
base; samaree 3, villose, 14 mm. in diameter, the lateral wings giving a circular 
outline; dorsal wing very small. 
Collected by Mr. C. G. Pringle on dry hills near Tehuacan, altitude 1,650 meters, 
November 27, 1895 (no, 6274), 
18104—03 t 
