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densely velvety-pilose or almost tomentose beneath. The following specimens 
belong here: 
Trepic: Tepic, 1892, Palmer 1907. Between Colomos and Arroyo Juan 
Sanchez, 1897, Nelson 4166. 
The type was collected at Acapulco. 
Rhus jaliscana Standl,, sp. nov, 
Shrub, 3 to 4.5 meters high, the branchlets reddish brown, rough-lenticellate, 
puberulent; leaves pinnate, 9 to 15-foliolate, the petioles slender, 1.5 to 2.5 cm. 
long, puberulent, the pairs of leaflets 6 to 14 mm. apart, the petiolules 1 to 3 
mm. long, slender, the blades elliptic or elliptic-oblong, sometimes ovate, 1.4 to 
2.6 cm. long, 0.6 to 1.5 em. wide, rounded to acutish at the base and usually 
unequal, commonly obtuse at the apex but sometimes acute or subacuminate, 
mucronulate, chartaceous, entire, green above, dull, sparsely short-pilose with 
subappressed hairs or glabrate, the venation more or less impressed, only 
slightly paler beneath, very sparsely pilose with minute, mostly appressed hairs 
or subbarbate in the axils of the veins, the lateral veins 4 to 6 on each side, 
the margin plane or subrevolute; panicles usually much longer than the leaves, 
the branches very slender, spiciform, remotely flowered, the flowers sessile; 
bracts rounded-ovate, obtuse, scarious; sepals rounded-ovate, obtuse, glabrous; 
petals obtuse, about half longer than the sepals; fruit 5 mm. long, 6 to 7 mm. 
wide, compressed, sparsely setose-pilose. 
Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, no. 19926, collected in moist places 
in the barranca near Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, November 3, 1888, by C. G. 
Pringle (no. 1774). 
ADDITIONAL SPECIMENS EXAMINED: 
JaLisco: Between Bolafios and Guadalajara, 1897, Rose 3093. Barranca 
near Guadalajara, 1907, Safford 1458a; in 1902, Pringle 9712. 
Pringle’s collections were distributed as Rhus terebinthifolia Schlecht., a 
species with larger, less numerous, subsessile or short-petiolulate leaflets, these 
usually more acute and more densely pubescent. R. barclayi is closely related 
to R. jaliscana, but differs in its large, less numerous, acuminate leaflets. 
Bernoullia flammea Oliver in Hook. Icon. Pl. 12: 62. pl. 1169, 1170. 1878. 
This remarkable tree, of the family Bombacaceae, was based by Oliver upon 
specimens and a drawing obtained by Dr. G. Bernoulli in the “ Costa Grande 
of Guatemala, from about 500 to 2,000 ft.”* So far as the writer knows, the 
species has been known heretofore only from the original collection. Recently, 
however, Dr. Blas P. Reko forwarded to the National Herbarium specimens, 
accompanied by a water-color sketch, which he had obtained at the Cafetal 
Nueva Esperanza, Oaxaca, Mexico, at an altitude of about 800 meters. Doctor 
Reko’s rediscovery of this little known plant is of unusual interest, since it 
indicates a noteworthy extension of range for the species. Moreover, this 
new material shows that the diagnosis of the genus must be corrected in one 
important respect. The plant was described originally as having digitately 
trifoliolate leaves, but Doctor Reko states, and the specimens show, that the 
number of leaflets, though variable, is usually five or six. 
Doctor Reko’s notes give the following additional information about the plant: 
“The tree grows in a very limited area on the Cerro Espino, at an altitude 
of about 800 meters, and reaches a height of 30 to 40 meters. In appearance 
it reminds one of the ceiba tree, which it resembles also in the soft, spongy 
?In Engler and Prantl’s Natiirlichen Pflanzenfamilien (3°: 65. fig. 34. 1895) 
Schumann gives the range of the plant as Costa Rica, but presumably this is due 
to a slip of the pen. 
