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given only west to Alabama; but seems to me nearer #. 
lasiocarpos of which other dried specimens show the yellow 
color ascribed to H. incanus though not so pronounced as 
in the Joor specimens. Nash’s no. 673 from Florida in 
the Garden herbarium labeled H. incanus has very hirsute 
capsules and in that and other characters comes near to H. 
lasiocarpos, but the pubescence is more like that of H. 
Moscheutos and incanus. It seems evident that more study 
of this section of Hibiscus will be necessary to separate 
well the species composing it. 
KALLSTROEMIA PARVIFLORA 0. sp. 
Primary branches a foot or two long, covered with long 
spreading hairs or glabrate below; leaves short petioled, 
with 3-4 pair of leaflets; leaflets 6-12 mm. long, oblong, 
usually acute, with appressed pubescence; pedicels 15-20 
mm. long, longer than the leaves ; sepals linear-lanceolate, 
persistent, in fruit longer than the carpels; petals light 
yellow, 6-8 mm. long; fruit minutely appressed pubes- 
cent, splitting into 8-10 nutlets, short tuberculate on the 
back; the persistent style 5-8 mm. long, longer than the 
carpels.— Collected at Agricultural College, Miss., by 
Pollard, Aug., 1896, no. 1295, and at San Antonio, Texas, 
by E. H. Wilkinson, 1897, no. 184.— Plate 46. 
Nearest A. grandiflora of the Southwest United States, 
but differs from that species in the smaller leaves with 
fewer leaflets, and smaller flowers. Said by Mr. Wilkinson 
to be common at San Antonio. . 
JUSSIAEA OCTONERVIA Lam. 
Among the Wilkinson plants from San Antonio, Tex. ; 
also collected at New Braunfels by Lindheimer, but not 
given in Coulter’s Botany of Western Texas. 
MEGAPTERIUM OKLAHOMENSE D0. sp. 
Stems decumbent or ascending, branches 14-3 dm. long, 
whole plant glabrous even when young ; leaves coriaceous, 
lanceolate, with remote teeth in the thickened margin, or 
