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long, 2 to 2.5 mm. broad, glabrous or nearly so, ciliate and, as 

 well as the entire inflorescence, more or less purplish: calyx 

 tubular, about 7 mm. long, minutely 4-toothed, glabrous except 

 along the ribs, posteriorly parted for about one-third its length, 

 or occasionally parted both posteriorly and anteriorly: corolla 

 trumpet-shaped, i to 1.5 cm. long, 10 to 13 mm. in diameter 

 when fully expanded; tube curved, glabrous without, hairy 

 within; limb 5-lobed; lobes broader than long: stamens 

 included: staminodia pubescent: style exserted: fruit oblong, 

 4 mm. long, glabrous. MEXICO. State of Vera Cruz: hillsides 

 near Chavarillo, 7 September, 1906, C. R. Barnes, C. J. Cham- 

 berlain & W. J. G. Land, no. 48 (hb. Field Mus., and hb. Uni- 

 versity of Chicago). 



Citharexylum Altamiranum Greenman, sp. nov. 



Stem and branches covered with a rough gray bark; ultimate 

 branchlets hexangular, brownish, short-hirsute pubescent: leaves 

 opposite, petiolate, ovate, ovate-oblong to subrotund, i to 4 

 cm. long, 0.5 to 2.5 cm. broad, obtuse to rounded or occasionally 

 emarginate at the apex, entire or not infrequently with one or 

 two teeth towards the apex, ciliate, hirsute-pubescent on both 

 surfaces, slightly paler beneath, usually bearing one to three 

 disc-like glands on the blade; petioles 3 to 15 mm. long, pubes- 

 cent: inflorescence terminating the branchlets in pubescent 

 few-flowered spicate racemes, i to 3 cm. in length; bracts 

 subulate, exceeding the short pedicels: flower not seen: calyx 

 persistent and in the fruiting stage becoming somewhat charta- 

 ceous, turbinate, 4 to 4.5 mm. high, 5-angulate-keeled at the base, 

 distinctly 5 -dentate with short erect acute teeth, slightly pubes- 

 cent on both inner and outer surfaces, ciliate about the orifice: 

 mature fruit oblong-elliptic, 7 to 8 mm. long in the dried state; 

 pyrenae elliptic, 6 to 7 mm. long, concavo-convex, smooth. 

 MEXICO. State of Queretaro: Hacienda del Ciervo, between 

 San Juan del Rio and Cadereyta, 20 August, 1905, /. N. Rose, 

 Jos. H. Painter & J. S. Rose, nos. 9666, 10,268 (hb. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., and hb. Field Mus.); del Ciervo al cerro de la mesa, 20 

 August, 1905, Dr. F. Altamirano, no. 1566 (hb. U. S. Nat. Mus.; 

 fragment in hb. Field Mus.). 



The plant here described suggests in general appearance 

 C. Berlandieri Rob., but differs in having smaller leaves, fewer- 

 flowered inflorescence and in its calyx characters. The species 

 is named in honor of the distinguished Mexican naturalist, Sr. 

 Dr. Fernando Altamirano, Director of the National Medical 

 Institute in the City of Mexico. 



CITHAREXYLUM CINALOANUM Rob. in Bot. Gaz. xvi. 342 (1891). 



To this species the following specimens are referred. MEXICO. 

 State of Sinaloa: near Rosario, on the road to Acaponeta, 27 

 July, 1897, Dr. J. N. Rose, no. 1858 (hb. U. S. Nat. Mus., and 

 hb. Field Mus.) ; between Rosario and Concepcion, 23 July, 

 1897, Dr. J. N. Rose, no. 3269 (hb. U. S. Nat. Mus., and hb. 



