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which hiiH ;uiy aflfiiiity with your new plant, aad I thiuk it is best to place 

 it in ;i now subgenus." 



Acalypha microphylla Klotzsch in Seem. Bot. Voy. Herald, 278 (1856). Common 

 ulon<jj the base of tlie mountain, and about tJie lagoon. Manzanillo, Decem- 

 ber 1 to 31, 1890. No. i)3r>. Also collected from a garden at C'olima, January 

 9 to February 6, 1891. No. 1251. 



Thin Name species was collected at Mazatlan in 1888 and was referred as above 

 by Dv. M. L. Kobinson. 



Acalypha papillosa Kose, sp. nov. Diffuse shrub, 5 to 6 feethigh, monoecious : leaves 

 ovate, long acuminate, ronnded or slightly cordate at base, sharply dentate, 3- 

 to5-nerved, pubescent when young, becoming glabrate in age; blade 2 to 4 

 inches long, 1 to 2 inches broad; petiole G to 10 lines long; stipules setaceous, 

 early deciduous: fertile spikes terminal, few-dowered; bract cup-shaped, 7- 

 toothed, l-dowered: calyx lobesl : styles long, purple, eacli withSto lObranches: 

 capsules his])id, ]>apillose roughened: sterile spikes axillary, dense; calyx-lobes 

 4.— Along creeks. Agiabamjyo, October 3 to 15, 1890. No. 778, 

 Probably nearest the recent species J . flavcHcena Watson. 



Acalypha subviscida Watson, Proc. Amer. Acad. xxi. 440 (188C). Manzanillo, 

 December 1 to 31, 1890. No. 941. 



URTICACEiE. 



Ficua fasciculata Watson, Proc. Amor. Acad. xxiv. 78 (1889). A tree, 30 feet high, 

 bearing a widely spreading top; trunk 2 feet in diameter: leaves often 5 inches 

 long on petioles 1 inch long. ('<dima, January 9 to February 6, 1891. No. 1119. 

 This seems to bo the same as Mr. Watson's s])eci("s although the leaves are 

 considerably larger. Mr. Watson afterwar<l8 thought that his species was pos- 

 siltly referable to I<\ sapida. 



This wild fig is called "(*amichin." The fruit, which is small, is sweet and 

 juicy, and is much used by the people of this region. 



Ficus sp. Tree, 20 feet high with trunk 1 foot in diameter, and bearing a widely 

 spreading to]); branchlets pubescent, especially on the stipular lines: leaves 

 oblong, 3 to 5 inches long, 2 to 2^ inches broad (on petioles 9 to 20 lines long) 

 obtuse, rounded at base, ]iinnately veined: fruit sessile, in pairs, small, 3 lines in 

 diameter: involucre 3- to 4-lobed; lobes obtuse, puberulent. At the base of the 

 mountains growing among tlie rocks. Man/.anillo, Marcli 2 to 18, 1891. No. 

 1387. Pringlc's No. 3887 (1891), from IJarranca, near Guadalajara, is the same 

 plant. It was distributed as F. ie<vhitr»sis, from which it differs in its snniller, 

 sessile fruit, 3- to 4-lobed involucre, pubescent stems, etc. It is, jierhaps, a new 

 8])(!cies, 



Picas sp. Small shrub, 6 feet high: leaves 4 to inches long, acuminate, cuneate 

 at base, somewhat pubescent beneath. Colima, February 27 and 28, 1891. No. 

 1321. 



Ficus sp. Leaves obloug, 10 inches long on petioles 2 inches long. Colima, 

 January 9 to February 0, 1891. No. 1186. 



SALICACEiE. 



Salix taxifolia U. B. K. Nov. (!en. etSpec. ii, 22 (1817); Anders in DC. Prod. xvi. 

 ])t. 2. 215; .S'. vih'.roiihijUa Cham. A, Schlect. Linniea, vi. 351; Hook A- Arn. Bot. 

 Bee(!h. Voy. 311, t. 70, fuh' M. S. Bobb. Shrub, 4 feet high. Along a river bank. 

 Colima, .lunuary 9 to February 6, 1891. No. 1193. 



ORCHIDACEiE. 



Epidendrum (Barkeria) palmeri Rolfe, Kow JUill. 1893, 6 (1893); pseudobulbis 

 fusiformibus di-triphyllis, foliia linearibus v. liueari-lanccolatis acutis, pedun- 



