r ri 





< ■•!- 



ROSE MEXICAN AXD CEXTKAL AMERICAN PLANTS. 



123 



Type U. S. National Ilerbariuui no. 4G9216, collected by E, W. Nelsou on road 

 between (Uiichoeovi and Lacunas, Oaxaca, Jnne 29, 1895 (no* 2753). 



Tliiw species is relatf^l to P, panietUaUt and l\ longicaulis, 



ExrLANATiox OF Pi.ATK XXX VlIL^Fig. rt, plant; b, k-uf; c, calyx; c/, sepals; e, sepals luid petals; 

 /. petals; <j, petals and st^uncns; //, stamens; i\ two views of pistil; j, seed. Fig. a, natural size; b to j, 

 scale 6. 



Poly gala turgida Koh^e, sp. nov. 



Plate XXXIX 



rerennial, pro.strate, nmeh branched, forming dense mats; stemti terete, glal)rous 

 aw are also the leavea and iiifloreHcence; leaven all in whorls, apparently fleshy when 

 alivej obovate, rounded at aj^ex, sometimes iniKTonate, 15 to 25 mm. long; pedunclew 

 pIcmhUtj wealvj 2 to 6 em. Inng; inflorescence a ppike-like raceme^ much elongated in 

 fruU; pedicels short, subtended l^y small ovate searionn bracts and bearing at their 

 base two small triangular bractlets; l^ outer scinils ovate, searious-margined; Mings 

 luuch larger than the outiT sepals; u}>p(T petal crested; capsule glabrous, orbicular, 

 bearing at base a cushiondike disk; seeds hairy, aril scarious, as long as the seed. 



Type IJ, S, National Herljariuni no. H215, collected by C* G. Fringle in alkaline 

 meadows on the Hacienda de Angostura, San Tiuis Potosi, July 14, 1891 (no. 8792); 

 also collected by Dr. K. rabner at Media Luna near Rio Verde, San r.nis l^ttosi, 

 June, 190-4 (no. 84). 



Mr. Pringle's specimen was sent out as a doubtful I\ aparinoidcs, but that is a very 

 different species. 



Exi'LANATiox OF Pr.ATi: XXXIX,— Fig. a, plant; h juid c, fio^ver; d, petals and stamens; f\ {\v<^ 

 views of pistil; /, rapsule; fj, seed. Fig. n, natural size; b to r/, scale ti. 



N 



MALVACEAE. 



ABTJTILON, A NEW SPECIES AND A NEW NAME, 



A'butilon durangense Rose & York. Plate XL. 



Perennial; stems woody, dark puqtle, ])rauching, covered with short glandular 

 hairs; leaf blades ovate, 6 to 12 cm. long; 4 to 7 cm. wide, cordate at base (with a 

 wide sinus), long-acuminate, finely dentate or crenate, or almost entire, the un<ler 

 surface pale in color, densely softly stellate-pubescent, the nitp(^r surface sparingly 

 stellate with additional simple hairs, llie veins purplish; petioles 2.5 to 4.5 cm, long, 

 with glandular pubescence; stipules small, linear, deciduous; inflorescence panicu- 

 late, flowers axillary, solitary; peduncles L5 to .'> cm. long, jointed near apex; calyx 

 10 mm. long in fruit, finely and densely stellate, the lobes broadly ovate, long- 

 acuminate, equaling (jr slightly longer than the mature carpels; petals yellow, obo- 

 vate, 15 to 18 mm. in length; stamen tidjc very short; carpels 9, shortly acuminate, 

 about 11 nun. in length, 2 or 3-seeded; seeds pubcrulent. 



Type U. 8. National Herbarium no. 804839, collected near DurangoCity, by Dr. E. 

 Palmer, 1896 (no. 587). 



4 



■ 



KxPLAXATiON OF pLATK XL.— Fig. a, braiirli; b, carpels. Fig. a, uatunii size; h, scale 2. 



Abutilon hemsleyana Rose. 



Ahnlilon sidoides Hemsley, Diag. PL Nov. 2: 24, L879, not Dalz. & Gibs. 1861. 



TWO NEW SPECIES OF WISSADUL.A. 



Wissadula glandulosa Rose, sp. nov. 



T 



Woody at base, the branches spreading or procumbent, very glandular; leaves 

 broadly ovate, acute, cordate at base, stellate-pubescent, crenate, the petiole often 

 longer tliau the blade; stipules filiform; fruiting calyx 12 to 14 mm. long; sepals 

 broadly ovate, acuminate; petals yellow, 15 to 16 mm. long; carpels 5, strongly 

 mucronate, each 3-see<led. 



