ROSE—MEXICAN AND CENTRAL AMERICAN PLANTS, 55 
7. Cornus lanceolata Rose, sp. nov. 
A small tree, 4 to 6 meters high; branches slender, brownish; leaves broadly 
lanceolate, 5 to 10 em. long, 2.5 to 6 em. broad, abruptly long-acuminate, rounded or 
somewhat tapering at base, pubescent on both surfaces with rather scanty appressed 
malpighiaceous hairs, with usually 4 pairs of rather prominent lateral veins; inflo- 
rescence a densely flowered terminal cyme, becoming in fruit 5 to 6 em, broad, more 
or less pubescent with blackish hairs; buds usually densely cinereous, the lower part 
or calyx more decidedly so; calyx teeth minute, ovate, acute; petals 5 mm. long; 
anthers nearly as long as the petals; anthers bluish; styles slender, thickened at 
apex, slightly pubescent. 
Specimens examimed: 
Vera Cruz: near Jalapa, J. N. Rose and Walter Hough, May 17,1899 (no. 4240); 
same locality and date, C. G. Pringle (no. 8199); Orizaba City, Botteri (no. 
262). 
Morelos: near Cuernavaca, Rose and Hough, May 27-30 (no. 4422). Type, Rose 
and Hough’s no, 8199. 
This species has heretofore been passing as C. tolucensis, but seems to be distin- 
guished by its much broader and larger leaves, larger cymes, and darker branches. 
[t grows at lower altitudes and in a more humid zone. Other characters are to be 
looked for in the fruit, but as yet neither species has been collected with mature 
fruit. Schlechtendal first studied this species and doubtfully referred it to C. 
tolucensis. 
A NEW GARRYA. 
Garrya longifolia Rose, sp. nov. 
A small tree; branches pubescent; leaves oblong-elliptical, obtuse, sometimes 
apiculate, 8 to 15 em. long, 1.5 to 3.5 em, wide, when mature nearly glabrous and 
reticulated above, lanate beneath; fruit orbicular, pubescent, the lower ones short- 
pedicelled, the upper ones subsessile, bracts linear, elongated. 
Collected on the Sierra de Topoxtlan, altitude 2,250 meters, by C. G. Pringle, March 
15, 1899 (no, 6988). 
Although the Mexican species of this genus are difficult to characterize, this one is 
very different in its appearance from all the others. 
CUCURBITACEAE. 
A NEW SCHIZOCARPUM. 
Schizocarpum reflexum Rose, sp. nov. 
Stems angled, climbing, with pubescence of two kinds, namely, of scattered coarse, 
jointed hairs and of short, dense, glandular hairs; tendrils 2-branched, one branch 
much longer than the other; petioles a little shorter than the blades, with pubescence 
like that of stem; leaves ovate, 5-lobed, the terminal lobe more elongated, ovate, 
acute, and apiculate, the others short and rounded, with minute teeth, somewhat 
glaucous and glabrous above, except near the margin, and except on the slightly 
roughened midrib, densely appressed-pubescent beneath; sinus broad and rounded, 
the lateral lobes almost meeting; flowers solitary in the axils; peduncles 5 to 8 em. 
long; peduncles (as also sepals and petals in bud) with pubescence like stems; sepals 
ovate, linear, very early reflexed in the bud; corolla yellow, 5 to 6 cm. long; lobes 
ovate, acute, erect. 
Collected by C. G. Pringle on mountains near Iguala, September 27, 1900 (no, 9252), 
