uiul -2. hu'luw liiii,^ )iy' 1 1 iiiclu^M wtdo. Tlic vaiiiitidii in ilio leaves passiu<^ iq* 

 the stem is ifiiuirkiihU". In iidditioii to llu; broiul triiiUf^fiilar loaves, some 

 aio :{-lobiM), then iibovo become narrower itiul hastate, liiially uarrowiiig to 

 I linear, \(nt always hastate. 



42. Sidii hederacea Gray. Pecos flats, near Pecos City (Reeves county). 



43. Sida lepidota Ciray. CMieuate Moimtaius (Presidio county). 



44. Sida ion gipea (i ray. I'ena (Duval county). This seems to be the first recorded 



(oUeelitHi of this species since Wright's in 1851 and that ot the Mexican 

 !3()undary Survey. It very closely resembles S. Lindheimcri Eng. A: Gray, 

 but the nuiticous carpels, as well as the elongated frnitiug pedicels, servo 

 well to dislini;nish it. 



45. Sida physocalyx (iray. Peua (Duval county). 



46. Abutilou Berlaudieri Gray. Corpus Cbristi (Nueces county) and San Diego 



(Duval county); also ioiind in 1^62 by G. W. Lettermaii at Laredo (Webb 

 eounfy) and distributed as .1. ltolo,^eri<xHm Scheele. A Mexican species, Ber- 

 laudier's V^^tO, ISO.IO, and lUOH, from nortlieast Mexico, being the same. 



47. Abutilou crispum (hay. Rio (rraude City (Starr county). 



48. Abutilou holosericeum Hchee!(^ Haiita Maria (Cameron county). 



49. Abutilou iiicaiium Don. (./. Tcxcnsc Torr. & Gray). Rio Grande City /St.irr 



eonncy). .1. iiirtDium is a species of the Sandwich Islands, but considered hy 

 Dr. Gray (Proc. Am. Acad., xxii. 301) identical with our A. Texenne, 'Miut- 

 withstanding the disjointed range." 



50. Abutilou Nealleyi CouitiM', «. up. Stem .slender, erect, 6 to 12'i"' high, soft 



pubernleut above, becoming glabrous below: leaves broadly cordate and long 

 acuminate, entire or slightly cienate, green and soft pubondent (becomiiig 

 glabrous) above, white with line dense stellate pubescence beneath, fi to 10"" 

 ' long, r. to T.f)' '" wide, becoming smaller iibove, on long petioles (2.5 to 9™ 

 long), (ho lower with axillary fascicles of small leaves: flowers in loose, few- 

 llowered, long pednncled, upper-axillary and terminal panicles, very small, 

 not more than 4""" high: calyx stellate-pubescent, deeply cleft, the ovate 

 axitite lobes about half as long as tl>0 petals and very much shorter than the 

 carpels: petals yellow or orange, hardly 4'"'" long: carpels 5, becoming <i to 

 8""" loiig, pubernleut, with a short acuminate beak, 2 or :i-seeded ; seeds 

 usually with a tuft of white hairs.— Near Hidalgo (Hidalgo county). This 

 species is an aihlition to the group of herbaceous, large-leaved, rather naked 

 paniculate and snniil-ilowored forms, represcmted heretofore by A. Sonorw 

 Gray, A. rcrcntiim Watson, and A. Xaiiti Gray. A. Xealleyi has nmch the 

 smallest liowers, and looks somewhat like a species oP Bastardia, but the 2 or 

 ;i-»eeded carpels are plainly those of Abutilou,. 



51. Abutilou parvulum Gray. Near Pcna (Duval county) and in the Chenate 



ilouiitains (Presidio eoiDily). 



52. Abutilou V/rightii Gray. Corpus Christi. 



53. Spheeralcea ambigua (Jray. Peua (Duval, county). S. Fmortji in Ives Col. 



Fjxp. liot. ^, and i'.nt. Calif, partly, not PI. Fendl, nor PI. Wright. Abnndint 

 on the arid ]dains of southern California, Nevada, and Arizona, and now 

 foiuid in sDnthern T(^xas. 



54. Spliceralceaangustifolia Spach., var. cuspidata Gray. Camp Chjirlotte (Ixion 



county). 



55. Spheeralcea Feudleri Gray. Chenate Mountains (Presidio county). 



56. SphEeralcea bubhastata Coulter, v. sj>. Low (7 to 22""): fruticoso and branch- 



iu", covered tlnougliouf with coarse almost scurfy stellate -pubescence : leaves 

 thick, ovate to oblong, mostly obtuse and subhastate, rugose ;ind more or less 

 serrate, 1.25 to ;5.75"'" long, 10 to IG'™" broad, on thick petioles G to 16"""loug; 

 liowers mostly solitary and axillary on very short i^edicols: calyx cleft about 

 half way, the lobes acute or somewhat acuminate, little more than half aa 



