VOL. 5] Plants from Sinaloa, Mexico. 213 
rarely glandular. Culiacan, Cofradia and from the mountains 
about San José del Cabo, Baja California. 
Anoda reticulata Watson. Cerro Colorado. The type came 
from Arizona. 
Anoda crenatifilora Ort. Cofradia and Culiacan. 
Anoda pentaschista Gray. Culiacan. 
Helicteres mollis Presl. Cerro Colorado. 
Melochia serrata Benth. Culiacan. 
Melochia speciosa Watson. A spreading bush 4-6 feet high and 
very handsome when in flower. Common east of Altata reaching 
nearly to Culiacan. The stellate pubescence of the leaves is 
denser and finer than that of the Guaymas type specimens. 
Waltheria acuminata Rose. Sometimes 15 feethigh. Cofradia. 
Buettneria tiliefolia Presl. Nearest this species of any de- 
scribed in Reliquie Heenkeanz. It is a bush with weak, green, 
reclining stems. Common in cafions about Culiacan 
Tonidium lasiocarpum Presi. A small shrub growing in shade 
of trees. It agrees nearly with the description in Reliquiz 
Heenkeanze. Culiacan and Cofradia. 
Amoreuxia palmatifida DC. Culiacan. 
Carica? sp. A plant evidently near C. caudata of the Cape 
Region of Baja California. Its local name is ‘‘Quadratos’’ and 
the fruit is said to be edible, but as is the case with many Mexican 
plants said to be good to eat, a good appetite is the first requisi- 
tion. This plant is erect, about a foot high, and bears large 
deltoid 3-lobed leaves. The fruit, about a dozen to each plant, 
1-2 inches long, is born on a spike, is bright red, 5-angled, 
ovate, truncate at top and with five sharp points in place of the 
“tails’’ of C. caudata. It was found only in fruit and but one 
plant was seen with the fruit attached. At maturity the whole 
plant disappears and only a circle of the bright red fruit marks 
the place where it grew. It is not uncommon about Cofradia. 
 Mentzelia adherens Benth. Cerro Colorado. 
Cuphea delicatula. Annual, diffusely spreading from the 
base, 1 dm. high or less; stems geniculate, slightly puberulent 
and bearing few, short, soft, triangular bristles; leaves unequal, 
linear, obtuse, revolute, sparingly bristly on the margins, sessile 
