496 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 
1. Forestiera neomexicana A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 12: 63. 1876. 
Adelia neomexicana Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 1: 410. 1891. 
Type Locauity: New Mexico. Type collected by Fendler. 
RanGE: Colorado to Arizona and western Texas. 
New Mexico: San Juan Valley; Carrizo Mountains; Pajarito Park; Craters; Puer- 
tecito; Mangas Springs; Sapello Creek; Rio Negrito. River valleys, in the Upper 
Sonoran Zone. 
2. Forestiera pubescens Nutt. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. n. ser. 5: 177. 1837. 
Adelia pubescens Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 1: 410. 1891. 
Type LocaLity: ‘In the prairies of Red River.’ 
RanGE: Oklahoma and Texas to eastern New Mexico. 
New Mexico: Queen; Lincoln National Forest. Upper Sonoran Zone. 
2. FRAXINUS L. Asa. 
Large or small trees with opposite pinnate leaves and inconspicuous dicecious 
flowers in clusters or panicles; calyx with a short tube and 4 unequal lobes or want- 
ing; stamens 2 to 4, the filaments short or elongated; ovary 2-celled, the styles united, 
the stigma 2-cleft; fruit a samara, with flat or terete body and a single wing partly 
surrounding it. 
KEY TO THE SPECIES. 
Leaves usually simple..............2..--...2002 0000 cee eee eee ee eee 4. F. anomala. 
Leaves pinnate. 
Flowers with a 4-parted corolla; leaflets small, 35 mm. long or less. 1. F. cuspidata. 
Flowers apetalous; leaflets more than 40 mm. long. 
Leaflets sessile or nearly so................2-.2-20-00e00ee 2. F. velutina. 
Leaflets distinctly stalked..........2...0..0000000.-22222-- 3. F. attenuata. 
1, Fraxinus cuspidata Torr. U. 8. & Mex. Bound. Bot. 166.1859. FLOWERING ASH. 
TyPE Locauity: “‘Eagle Mountains and Great Cafion of the Rio Grande,’’ Texas. 
RanGE: Western Texas to Arizona and adjacent Mexico. 
New Mexico: Grant; McCarthy Station; San Andreas Mountains; Big Hatchet 
Mountains. Upper Sonoran Zone. 
2. Fraxinus velutina Torr. in Emory, Mil. Reconn. 149. 1848. 
Frarinus pistaciaefolia Torr. U. S. Rep. Expl. Miss. Pacif. 4: 128. 1856. 
TyPE Locauity: ‘Between the waters of the Del Norte and the Gila,’ New Mexico. 
Type collected by Emory in 1847. 
RanGeE: Western Texas to Arizona. 
New Mexico: San Luis Mountains; Florida Mountains; Animas Mountains; 
Organ Mountains; White Mountains. Low mountains, Upper Sonoran and Transi- 
tion zones. 
3. Fraxinus attenuata Jones, Contr. West. Bot. 12:59. 1908. 
Fraxinus toumeyi Britt. & Shaf. N. Amer. Trees 803. 1908. 
TyPE Locauity: Valley of Palms, Lower California, and Santa Catalina Mountains, 
Arizona. 
Rance: New Mexico, Arizona, and adjacent Mexico. 
New Mexico: Mogollon Mountains; Black Range; Dog Mountains ; San Luis Moun- 
tains; Organ Mountains; Las Palomas. Upper Sonoran and Transition zones. 
4. Fraxinus anomala Torr.; S. Wats. in King, Geol. Expl. 40th Par. 5: 283. 1871. 
Tyre Locauity: ‘In Labyrinth Cafion on the Colorado River, Utah.’’ 
RanGeE: Utah and Nevada to Colorado and northwestern New Mexico. 
New Mexico: Carrizo Mountains (Standley 7316). Dry rocky hills, in the Upper 
Sonoran Zone. 
