106 New Species of Plants. [zoe 



inner ones 15 mm. long, puberulent : akenes glandular- puber- 

 ulent. 



This plant is very near P. oxylepis, but the larger heads are 

 arranged in a more cymose inflorescence and the conspicuously 

 reticulated leaves have larger dentations. The form of inflores- 

 cence gives to the species a very different appearance. 



Bumelia occidentalis, Hemsley, Biol., Cent.-Amer. ii, 298. 

 Specimens of a bush that agree very closely with 'the description 

 of this species were collected at San Jose de Gracia, near the cen- 

 tral latitude of the peninsula. Though generally unarmed as 

 described, some of the specimens bear small spines. What seems 

 to be the same thing was collected at Pescadero, near Todos 

 Santos, where it formed small trees. I also collected apparently 

 the same plant in fruit at Durasnillas, fifty miles from Hermosillo, 

 Sonora. The type came from "North Mexico, Sonora Alta." 



Bumelia Socorrensis. Glabrous excepting the young growth, 

 peduncles, pedicels and calyx lobes, which are sparingly pubes- 

 cent : leaves not fascicled, obovate, cuneate at base, 4-5 cm. 

 long, 1-2 cm. wide, attenuate into a petiole 5 mm. long ; flowers 

 in small fascicles in the axils of the leaves on pedicels 3-4 mm. 

 long: calyx coriaceous: appendages shorter than the corolla 

 lobes, lanceolate, fimbriate, narrower and shorter than the ovate- 

 lanceolate staminodia that in old flowers are acuminate and some- 

 what fimbriate : fruit elliptical, 12-14 mra - long; 8 mm. wide. 



The specimens are all unarmed excepting one which bears a 

 ■few sharp axillary spines, 1 cm. long. The leaves resemble 

 those of B. lanuginosa, but do not have its pubescence. 

 Collected upon Socorro Island by Mr. A. W. Anthony. 

 Bumelia fragrans. A shrub 3-5 m. high, glabrous, except- 

 ing the pubescent pedicels and calyx segments, the short 

 branches spinescent ; leaves coriaceous, in fascicles of about 4, 

 obovate, obtuse, cuneate at base into a very short petiole : flow- 

 ers in fascicles of 10-20 on pedicels 7-10 mm. long, white : calyx 

 segments coriaceous with hyaline margins : corolla 5 mm. long, 

 exceeding the calyx ; appendages interior, nearly 1 mm. broad, 

 oblong, obtuse, fimbriate, little shorter than the lobes : stamin- 

 odia narrowly ovate, broader and longer than the nppendages to 



