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usually much smaller than the terminal ones; flowering peduncle 
6 mm. long (or longer ?), in fruit 1.5-2 cm. long, enlarged below 
the calyx ; sepals lanceolate, caducous before maturing of the fruit; 
corolla orange-yellow, less than I cm. broad; fruit minutely pubes- 
cent, splitting into 10 1-seeded bony cocci, each with 2-4 very 
short obtuse tubercles or excrescences on the back, the persistent 
style 1-2 mm. long, very short and obtuse. 
Mesa near Las Cruces, New Mexico, alt. 3900 feet. Collected 
by E. O. Wooton, August 12, 1895. 
“ New Mexico” C. Wright, no. 912, 1851, in Herb. Columbia 
University ? 
A species intermediate between K. Californica and K. maxima. 
It has the leaf form and general appearance of the latter species, the 
small flowers (though of a darker orange-yellow) and the caducous 
sepals of K. Californica. The specimen of Wright's collection, re- 
ferred to above, is probably this species, but is too immature’ 
for certain determination ; the young fruit has the short stout ob- - 
tuse style which is one of the prominent characters of K. drachy- 
Sstylts. 
To this species may possibly be referred a specimen from Guay- 
mas, Mexico, collected by Dr. Edward Palmer, no. 107, 1887, and 
catalogued by Dr. Watson as 7ribulus maximus var. in Proc. Am. 
Acad. 24:43, but the fruit is too young for entirely satisfactory 
comparison. 
New West Indian Fungi. 
By J. B. Erxis AnD F. D. KEtsEy. 
The species here described were collected by Mr. A. E. Rick-_ 
secker, in the Island of St. Croix, Danish West Indies, January 
and February, 1896. 
ASTERINA COLUBRINAE Ell. & Kelsey. 
On leaves of Colubrina reclinata, no. 26. 
Hypophyllous. Perithecia scattered, superficial, discoid, orbi- | 
cular, grayish black, 200-275 y diam., without any distinct myce- — 
lium; asci obovate, short-stipitate, a > Hi oe ae 
paraphyses, 8-spored; sporidia irregularly arranged, gees 
long, uniseptate, only slightly constricted, hyaline, 7-8 x 2-214 fe 
