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at base and more pubescent above, and in the much more contracted 

 inflorescence. 



XniENiA PARVIFLORA, Benth. Fruit globose, yellow, 4 lines long, 

 edible. Guadalajara, on hillsides ; July. ("272.) 



WiMMERiA CONCOLOR, Cham. & Schlecht. ? A small shrub, in 

 flower, probably belonging to this species, with leaves smaller and 

 obtuser than in JV. discolor, and more lanceolate than in IV. confusa. 

 Tequila, on hillsides. (368.) 



Karwinskia Hujiboldtiana, Zucc. a small shrub, called " Mar- 

 garita." A decoction of the leaves and stems is used as a febrifuge. 

 Guadalajara ; September. (438.) 



Rhamnus (Frangula) Palmeri. a shrub, 4 feet high, tomen- 

 tose throughout : leaves broadly elliptical to ovate, rounded or emar- 

 ginate above, subcordate at base, finely serrate, densely tomentose 

 especially beneath, greener above, 2|- to 4 inches long by 1^ to 2|- 

 broad, on very short petioles : flowers umbellate on a very short ax- 

 illary peduncle, the pedicels 3 or 4 lines long : calyx tomentose, 1^ 

 lines long, the acute lobes twice longer than the petals : fruit depressed- 

 obovate, 3-lobed, 3 lines long. Tequila, on hillsides. (363.) 



ViTis Carib^a, DC. "Intensely white"; fruit ripening early iu 

 July. Rio Blanco ; June. (25.) 



Serjania ? Flowering specimens only, with the habit of 



S. racemosa, but the pedicels longer (1 to 1^ lines) and the flowers 

 rather smaller. Tequila, in a deep barranca. (381.) 



Spondias Mexicana. a widely spreading tree, with short crooked 

 limbs and body, the young branches and petioles puberuleut : rhachis 

 of the leaves 3 to 6 inches long; leaflets 4 to 6 pairs, distinctly petio- 

 lulate, sparingly pubescent both sides or glabrate above, becoming 

 somewhat coriaceous and shining, entire or obscurely crenulate toward 

 the apex, oblong-ovate or -obovate, acute, cuneate at base, the terminal 

 oblanceolate and sharply acuminate, 1|^ to 2 inches long by an inch 

 wide or less : fruit pale greenish yellow, 15 lines long, the endocarp 

 very foraminate. Tequila. (408.) — Differing much from S. lutea 

 in the foliage. The {)lum-like fruits, called " Ciruela," are eaten and 

 made into sweetmeats, and the juice is put into "attole." 



Trifolium goniocarpum, Lojacono. ( T. amabile, var. longifolio- 

 lum, Hemsl.) Flowers white. Guadalajara, in rich moist bottoms; 

 July. (236.) — This may stand as a good species. Lojacono's T. ama- 

 bile, however, as to the Californian specimen which he describes, is 

 T. Breweri, wiiile his T. Hemslej/i is typical T. amahile^ HBK., or 

 nearly so. His T. Potosanum is T. Mexicanum, HemsL 



