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in Engl. & Prantl. Nat. Pflanzenf. iv. Ab 3 b . 76 (1895). Mon- 

 niera dianthera Millsp. Field Col. Mus. Bot. Ser. ii. 98 (1900), 

 as to binomial and synonomy, not as to specimen cited. Mecar- 

 donia procumbens Small, Fl. Southeastern U. S. 1065 (1903). 



Var. Schottii, var. nov. 



Habit and foliar characters as in the species : pedicels slender, 

 varying in length from somewhat shorter to twice the length 

 of the leaves : flowers 6 to 7 mm. long in anthesis ; the outer upper 

 sepal sharply denticulate. MEXICO. State of Yucatan : Merida, 

 29 August, 1865, Dr. A. Schott, no. 616 (hb. Field Mus.); vicin- 

 ity of Izamal, collection of 1888, Dr. Geo. F. Gaunter, specimen 

 without number (hb. Field Mus.); Izamal, collection of 1895, 

 Dr. Geo. F. Gaunter, no. 474 (hb. Field Mus., and hb. Gray); in 

 moist places near Izamal, 22 February, 1906, /. M. Greenman, 

 no. 464 (hb. Field Mus.) ; San Anselmo, Dr. Geo. F. Gaumer, 

 no. 1792 (hb. Field Mus.); Chichen Itza, 28 January to 10 

 February, 1901, E. A. Goldman, no. 555 (hb. U. S. Nat. Mus., and 

 hb. Field Mus.). Differs from typical representatives of the 

 species in the somewhat smaller flowers, slightly narrower parts 

 of the calyx, and in the rather striking denticulate character of 

 the outer upper sepal. 



B. auriculata, n. comb. Herpestis auriculata, Rob. Proc. Am. Acad. 



xxvi. 172 (1891). 

 B. decumbens, n. comb. Herpestis decumbens, Fernald. Proc. Am. 



Acad. xxxiii. 91 (1897). 



JUSTICIA FURCATA Jacq., var. terminalis, n. comb. Adhatoda furcata, 

 a terminalis Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 398 (1847). 



In Mr. Pringle's Plantae Mexicanae two different numbers, 

 namely no. 6498 and 11665, have been distributed under the 

 above name, but no authority assigned to the combination. 

 Definite mention of the variety terminalis under the genus 

 Justicia with complete reference to synonomy seems not to have 

 been made hitherto. To this variety may also be referred speci- 

 mens collected at El Parian, District of Etla, Oaxaca, Mexico, 

 altitude 1,400 m., 2 September, 1906, C. Conzatti, no. 1556 (hb. 

 Field Mus.). 



JACOBINEA VIRGATA Hemsley. Biol. Cent. -Am. Bot. ii. 522 (1882). 

 Drejera virgata Oerstd. in Kjoeb. Vidensk. Meddel. 1854, p. 154; 

 Walp. Ann. v. 660. 



Specimens collected at De Almoloyas Sta. Catarina, Oaxaca, 

 Mexico, altitude 1,000 m., 26 December, 1906, C. Conzatti, no. 

 1662 (hb. Field Mus.), agree well with the original description 

 of the above species. 



Morinda yucatanensis Greenman, sp nov. 



A more or less climbing shrub : stem and older branches covered 

 with a grayish bark; the younger branches and branchlets 

 yellowish and densely pubescent with short horizontally spread- 



