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Abutilon incanum Don. Flowers lavender ; common in sliafle of bushes and rooka 

 along wooded hillsides; near Alamos. March 20 to Ajtril 8. No. 381. 



Abutilon incanum Don. Two and one-half to three feet high ; flowers very numer- 

 ons and somewhat variable in color; petals mostly purple at base, hnt either 

 white, orange, or purple above. A very common plant about Alamos. Septem- 

 ber 16 to :50. Nos. ()50,(551, 653. 



Waltheria Americana L. About 3 feet high : flowers yellow. This plant is very 

 common on the grassy bottoms about Alamos. September 16 to 30. No, 643. 



Waltheria detonsa Gray. Flowers orange-colored. A small plant about a foot 

 high. Alamos. March 26 to April 8. No. 390. 



Ayenia pusilla L. Grows sparsely in shady woods near Alamos. September 16 to 

 30. No. 662. 

 With this is a very narrow leaved form. No. 661. 



Ayenia paniculata, n. sp. A shrub about 2 feet high : leaves 2^ to 3 inches long 

 (on petioles 1| inches long), oval and obtuse to ovate and acute, truncate at base 

 and coarsely serrate; pubescence beneath white, dense, close, and stellate ; above 

 green and scanty : flowers either in the axils of the leaves or in naked panicles 

 above: sepals brown, linear to narrowly lanceolate, 3^ lines long: petals orbic- 

 ular, 2-lobed, each lobe 2 to 3-dentato : anthers Scelled : fruit 4 to 5 lines broad, 

 5 to 7-lobed, covered with short, blunt prickles, shorter than in A. glahra, — Very 

 rare at Alamos. September 16 to 30. No. 644 in part. 



Ayenia truncata, n. sp. Shrubby : leaves ovate, slightly acnminate, truncate at 

 base, 1 to 1^ inches long, crenately toothed, nearly glabrous : pedicels 3 to 4 lines 

 long: frnit about 3 lines in diameter, clothed with a line stellate pubescence and 

 short blunt spines : seeds oblong, black, 1^ to 2 lines hmg, less rugose than in A, 

 filifolia. — Very rare at Alamos. September 16 to 30. No, 644a. It is nearest A, 

 glabra, bnt has smaller leaves and these truncate at base and less acuminate at 

 tip, etc. 



Triumfetta semitriloba L. Grows nnder bushes about Alamos. Septembt'r 20 to 30. 

 No. 642. 



Heliocarpus attenuatus Watson. Proc. Amer. Acad. xxi. 420. A small tree 10 feet 

 high, 2 inches in diameter, with a compact top. On stony mountain side near 

 Alamos. No. 732 (only in fruit). No 647 (just past flowering). 



Another plant, of which but one specimen was seen, having the leaves and in- 

 florescence of this species, seems to he the same, but it is a small bush with white 

 flowers and 20 stamens. Collected on a hillside near Alamos. September 16 to 

 30. No. 733. 



Heliocarpus polyandrus Watson. Proc. Amer. Acad. xxi. 420. A large shrub 8 feet 

 high: the stem with brown flaky bark : larger leaves, 6 inches or more long by 

 4 inches broad, on petioles 3 to 4 inchea long : sepals 3^ lines long, greenish yel- 

 low : petals 2 lines long: stamens 45, long and conspicuous. — Alamos. Septem- 

 bet 16 to 30. No. 62D. 



Bunchosia Sonorensis, n. sp. Five to ton feet high, with many woody branches; 

 older branches glabrate and with reddish-brown bark ; younger branches, leaves, 

 and inflorescence with short soft pubescence : leaves glandless at base but with a 

 few scatti^red glands on the lower surface, oval and obtuse to lanceolate and 

 acute, 1 J to2 inches long ; racemes 1 to 4 inches long ; pednncles 3 to 8 lines long ; 

 pedicels thick, 2 lines long, in fruit 4 lines long, glandular at base : calyx snuall 

 with 5 ovate lobes, bearing 10 largo glands: corolla yellow ; petals 3 lines long, 

 with long claws: stamens 10, glabrous, connate at base: styles united: ovary 

 sericeous-pubescent : drupe \ inch in diameter, somewhat 2-lobed, 2-pyreuous, 

 "light amber," becoming dark red. — On level places and ridgea where there is 

 plenty of soil. Alamos. No. 322. Dr. Palmer says this plant is a large bush 

 with numerous yellow flowers. It is considered poisonous and is not eaten by 

 man. bird, or beast, but at night a large moth feeds upon its delicate juices. 



