PLANTS FROM SINALOA, MEXICO. 
BY T. S. BRANDEGEE. 
The collection upon which this paper is based was made in - 
Sinaloa. August, 1904, I landed at Altata and from there went 
to Culiacan. The flora about this city and along the railway to 
Altata was collected during the months of September and Oc- 
tober. In November the plants growing about Cofradia and in 
the Cerro Colorado were collected. Cofradia and Cerro Colo- 
rado are east from Culiacan thirty or more miles, and near to the 
boundary line of the State of Durango. Cerro Colorado is a 
small mountain with peaks of red rock that are perhaps 2000 feet 
above sea level. Abundant rains fell during August, September 
and October, bringing forth a luxuriant vegetation and making 
it possible to find many species, ‘The following pages contain in 
addition to descriptions of new species, only names of those 
plants whose distribution seems worthy of note. 
Sagittaria Greggii J. G. Smith. ? Growing five feet high in 
ponds about Culiacan. No mature fruit was collected. 
Andropogon brevifolius Sw. Cerro Colorado. 
Andropogon fastigiatus Sw. Cofradia and very abundant on 
Cerro Colorado. 
Paspalum pyramidale Nees. Growing in ponds about Culiacan. 
Panicum Oaxacense Fourn. Cerro Colorado. 
Pennisetum setosum Rich. Cerro Colorado. 
Campulosus planifolius Pres]. Identified at the Department of 
Agrostology, Washington, D. C. 
Erythea aculeata. Trunk 6-7 m. high: blade of the leaf 
4-6 dm. long, cleft below the middle; the segments bifid at the 
apex, about forty in number, slightly filamentose with threads ; 
2.5 dm. long: petioles slender, 5 dm, and more long, triangular 
in cross-section, armed upon the edges with slightly hooked 
Spines that are 1 mm. long: fruit globular, somewhat flattened 
on one side, 2.5 cm. in diameter: embryo near the base on the 
dorsal side: albumen deeply excavated near the base of the 
ventral side forming a cavity 7 mm, long and half as wide. 
