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and Mocino over a liundriMl years ago (about 1788), l)ut tho station is not men- 

 tioned; and it is more tlian yixty years since Don first publishcMl (1833) his 

 description. 



ilr. Ifemsley writes nie that the tyi)e is probably iji the Delessent IFerbariura 

 at Geneva, and that the species was not represented in the Kew Herbarium. 



LOBELIACE.SI. 



Heterotoma tenella, Turcz. liull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. xxv. pt. 2. 175 (1852). In moist, 

 sliady ]dac<'s anionj^ rocks along river bottoms. Coliina, January J> to February 

 G, ISid. No. 1177. Also good specimens from Mrs. II. L. T. Wolcott, to whom 

 seed had been sent. 



PLUMBAGINACE.a3. 



Plumbago pulchella ]^ois.s. in DC. Prod. xii. 692 (1848). Common along fences. 

 Colima, January 9 to February 6, 1891. No. 1182. 



MYRSINACEiE. 



Jacqmnia sp. A small tree, 12 feot high witli very large top : leaves spatulate to 

 oblauccohite, sharply pungent, glabrous, 3 inches long : flowers in raiiemes, 

 orange-colored: fruit 1 inch in diameter. Manzanillo, December 1 to 31,1891. 

 No. 1014. 



Lucuma sp. A small shrub, 10 feet high ; young branches pubescent : leaves oblan- 

 ceolate, tapering into a'wlender petiole (1 inch or more long), glabrous, obtuse 

 or acutish, shining above; 5 to 8 inches long, 1+ to 2\ inches broad: flowers in 

 clusters of 2 to 4, supra-axillary : peduncles 6 to 7 lines long, ])iibescent : sepals 

 5, orbicular, obtuse, imbricated, pubescent without, subetiuai, 3 lineslong : corolla 

 dull white, somewhat tubular, 6 lines long, 5-cleft to tlie Jiiiddle or into obtuse 

 lobes, puberulent: stamens and staminodia e(|ually inserted near tho top of the 

 tube; stamens included on short filaments about equal to the anthers; stamin- 

 odia linear, longer than the stamens; ovary pubescent, 5-celledi fruit unknown. 

 Manzaiiillo, March 2 to 18, 1891. No. 1346. 



Very similar to a specimen in the National Herbarium from a plant culti- 

 vated in Fh>rida under the name L. frutlcosa. 



SAPOTACEiE. 



Bumelia arborescens Rose, sp. nov. A tree with a wide-spreading top; trunk 1 

 foot ill diameter; branches often bearing short, straight thorns: leaves when 

 young clothed with a close, short, reddish pubescence, in age glabrous and shin- 

 ing, oblong, obtuse, 2 to 3 inches long : flowers very numerous in tho axils of tlie 

 leaves: pedicels 1^ to 2i lines long :»calyx and pedicels ferruginous-pubescent: 

 fruit glabrous. Colima, .Tanuary 9 to February 6, 1891. No. 1123. 



Mr. Hemsley writes that they have not this species in the herbarium at Kew. 

 Perhaps nearest B. persimilis. 



APOCYNACEJE. 



Rauwolfia heterophylla Roem. &, Schult. ?^yst. iv. 805 (1819). A shrub 5 to 6 feet 

 higli, Manzanillo, December 1 to 31, 1890. No. 1030. Armeria, February 27 

 and 28, 1891. Letter H. 



Thevetia cuneifolia (K. 15. K.) A. DC. Prod. viii. 314 (1844) ; Cerberia cnneifolia H. B. 

 K.Nov. Ceil, et S])ec. iii. 224 (1818). A shrub 20 feet high, 6 to 12 inches in diam- 

 eter, leaves often 5 to 6 inches long: flowers yellow. Man/anillo, December 1 to 

 31, 1890. No. 1069. 



This shrub giv<'s out an abundance of milky juice A^hen cut. The plant bfi8 

 apparently only been collected twice, first by Humboldt in flower and next by 



