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Jgegeria hirta Less. Syn. Coiiip. 223 (1832). An inch to one foot or more high, 

 ^ spreading or erect. Very common along river bottoms at Colima, January 9 to 

 February 6, 1891. No. 1190. 



Thi.4 is Pringle's No. 1282 (1887) distribntod na J. cahm Scbiiltz Bip. To this 

 genus, an<l perhaps to the same ap(,'<'ifs (although it is taller and has simpler 

 inHoreseence) belongs Botteri'a No. 1180, referred by Mr. Hemsley to Spilaiiihes 

 ulvjinoad liiol. ('ent.-Amer. ii. 194; also J. D, Smith's No. 930 diatribnted as S. 

 HesniJifolia. 



Gymnoloniia patens <iray, Proc. Anier. Acad. v. 182 (1861). Often 8 feet high 

 with spreading branches, frequently depcn<ling tor .support upon other plants. 

 It is a very abnndaut bloomer, f'olima, January 9 to February 6, 1891. No. 

 1 223. 



Agiabampoa Rose in Hoffmann, Wiss. Boil. z. Jahrosb. Fried. Werd. Gym. Berl. p. — 

 (re])rint, 20) and Eng. & Prantl, Pflanzonf. iv. abt. H. 390 (1894). A new genua (»f 

 ffdittnthoUh'(v. Heads lieterogamons. radiate, few-flowered; ray-Mowers sterile, 

 in 1 row; disk-flowers hermaphrodite, fertile. Involucre oblong; bracts in t 

 aeries, broad and obtuse; receptacle very small, almost flat; corolla of ray- 

 flowers without style, spreading, 2-lobed or merely notched: corolla of disk- 

 ilowers regiilar, 5-toothed; ]iropcr tube short: throat tubular : stamens entire 

 at base; style-branches short, somewhat llattenod, with an ovate, acute tip: 

 akenes a little flattened, cuneate-oblong : pappus none.— Shrubby, much 

 branched: leaves opjiosite, slender and entire: heads in small compact cymes 

 tenuinating the branchea. 



For illustration see PI, xxxii. 



This genus seems to belong to Beutbam and Hooker's third section of Verbe- 

 sine<v and near VartJla, although it difi'ers from it quite Avidely. 



Mr. Canby in a letter to me ])oiiits out the clos(! resemblance in luibit of thia 

 species to GymnoHptrma, but of cour.so its opposite leaves and l>ract8 on the 

 receptacle keep it distinct from this genus. 



Dr. (). Hofl'manu, of Berlin, has placed the genus next to fh/mnnhmio, from 

 which it differs in its cylindrical invohicre and very unequal bracta. 



Agiabampoa congesta I{os<', 11. cc. A loose-growing shrub, 4 to 5 feet high, ((uito 

 woody below wifh several stems from the base, glabrous or Avith some hispid 

 pubescence: leaves (u]>]ierm()st ones often alternate) linear to linear-lanceolate, 

 3-ncrved, a little hispid on Ijoth sides, 2 to *> inches hmg: h<'a<ls (sessile or on 

 short pedicels) 3 lines long: iuvolucral bracts 3- to 5 -nerved, coriaceous with 

 green tips, oblong and obtuse and with long, oily glands on the back: rays 5, 

 yellow, oval to oval-ob]<uig, 11 to 2 lines long: disk-corolla 2 lines or less long 

 with a very short j)roper tube: akenes black, glabrous, IJ lines long. — Common 

 in rocky creek bottoms. Agiabampo, October 3 to 1."), 1891. No. 752. 



The bracts are more or less viscid as seems also to be the case with VarUJa. 



Sclerocarpus uniserialis (Hook) B. A If. (Jen. Plant, ii. 364(1873); (h/muoiisls 

 uniHeriaiis Hook. Tc. PI. t. Un (1837). One to one and one half feet high. Only a 

 few plants seen on the mountain aide at Manzauillo, December 1 to 31, 189! . No. 

 975. A spreading orsomewliat ]irocnmbent form was obtained at Colima, but is 

 without number. Distributed as Ijctter J. 



Montanoa grandiflora DC. Prod. v. ,565 (1836). A shrub 10 feet high. Colima, 

 •JaTinary 9 to February 6, 1891. No. 1159. 



Zexmenia greggii dray, PI. Wright, i. 113 (1852). Stem 5 to 6 feet high. Along 

 river banks. Colima, January 9 to February 6, 1891. No. 1241. 



Zexmenia tequilana Cray in Watson, Proc. Amer. Acad. xxii. 425 (1887). A shrub 

 10 feet high. On the bank of a creek on the opposite side of bay from Man- 

 zauillo, December 1 to 30, 1890. N(». 1022. 



Tithonia tagetiflora Desf. Ann. Mus. Par. i. 49, t. 4 (1802). About 3 feet high. 

 Only two plants seen in a creek bottom. January 9 to February 6, 1891, No, 

 1250. 



