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iateral spurs; stipules ovate, acuminate, 1 to 2 mm. long, thick, brownish, 
glabrous or short-pilose outside, glabrous within; petioles stout, 8 mm. long 
or shorter, short-pilose; leaf blades mostly ovate, ovate-oblong, or narrowly 
elliptic-oblong, rarely rounded-obovate, 2.5 to 5.5 cm. long, 0.8 to 2.5 em. wide, 
acute to jong-attenuate at the base, or rounded or obtuse and short-decurrent, 
usually acute at the apex, sometimes obtuse or rounded, often subapiculate, 
membranaceous or chartaceous, puberulent or scaberulous above, densely short- 
pilose beneath, the lateral veins inconspicuous, 3 to 5 on each side; flowers 
perfect, terminal, sessile, solitary or clustered; calyx densely short-pilose, the 
tube about 2 mm, long, the 5 lobes lineur or oblong, 1 to 1.5 mm. long, acute or 
obtuse, spreading; corolla salverform, sparsely hirtellous outside, the tube 3 
to 4 mm. long, ampliate above, the 5 lobes rounded, 2 to 3 mm. long, glabrous 
within, the throat naked ; anthers subexserted ; fruit globose, 1.2 em. in diameter 
(or larger?), smooth, densely velvety-pilose, the pericarp very thick and hard; 
seeds numerous. 
Type in the U. 8S. National Herbarium, no. 302274, collected near Acaponeta, 
Tepic. Mexico, July 30, 1897, by J. N. Rose (no. 8298). 
The following additional specimens belong here: 
SrnaLoa: Mazatlén, in thickets, April, 1910, Rose, Standley & Russell 13838. 
Rosario, April, 1910, Rose, Standley & Russell 14526. 
Teptc: Acaponeta, July, 1897. Rose 1514; April, 1910, Rose, Standley € 
Russell 14454. 
Allied to R. valapensis Mart. & Gal., but easily recognized by the copious 
spreading pubescence of the fruit. 
Randia rosei Standl, sp. nov. 
Branches brownish, with short internodes, short-pilose when young with 
appressed hairs, armed with numerous pairs of stout divergent spines 1 to 
2 cm. Jong, the leaves mostly crowded on very short lateral spurs; stipules 
about 2 mm, long, rounded-ovate, obtuse, mucronate, thick, brownish, glabrous; 
petioles slender, 1 to 5 mm. long, ciliate; leaf blades suborbicular, rhombic- 
oval, or rhombic-ovate, 1 to 2.5 cm. long, 0.7 to 1.8 wide, rounded or obtuse at 
the base and short-decurrent, rounded or very obtuse at the apex, sometimes 
apiculate, herbaceous, bright green, ciliate, short-pilose beneath along the 
veins, elsewhere g’abrous, the lateral veins inconspicuous, 5 or 6 on each side, 
ascending or subdivaricate; flowers perfect, terminal, solitary, sessile; calyx 
tube about 2 mm. long. pilose, the 5 lobes linear, 8 to 6 mm. long, ciliate; 
corolla salverform, glabrous outside, the tube 10 to 12 mm. long, ampliate above, 
the throat naked, the 5 lobes ovate-oval, 8 mm. long, 5 to 7 mim. wide, obtuse 
or acutish, apiculate, glabrous within; anthers 1.5 to 2 mm. long, included; 
fruit (very immature) subglobose, rather sparsely pilose. 
Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, no. 3003895, collected at Rosario, 
Sinaloa, Mexico, July 7, 1897, by J. N. Rose (no. 1551). 
Near R. canescens Greenm., a species with densely pilose leaves and pilose 
corolla, 
NINE NEW SPECIES OF HOFFMANNIA FROM MEXICO AND 
CENTRAL AMERICA. 
Hoffmannia obtains its greatest development in North America. 
Recent monographic study indicates that at least 33 species occur on 
this continent, chiefly in Mexico and Central America, only two being 
natives of the West Indies. They must be of very local distribution, 
