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acute, 2 lines long : stamens 10 ; scales obsolete: pistils equalling the 

 petals. Chapala. (726.) 



Myrtus Arayan, HBK. ? A cultivated tree, 25 feet high, bear- 

 ing a greenish yellow fruit (half an inch in diameter, containing a bony 

 2-celled and 2-seeded nutlet) upon pedicels 6 to 9 lines long. Tequila. 

 (407.) — Cultivated for ornament and for its fruit, under the same 

 popular name that is given to the original species in Peru, and agree- 

 ing closely with it (as described) in its characters, excepting the color 

 of the fruit. It is noted by Palmer as reported to be a native of the 

 Pacific coast, and is probably therefore the M. communis of Hook. 

 & Arn. in the Botany of Beechey's voyage. In foliage it closely 

 resembles Eugenia Schiedeana, Schlecht. (^Myrtus'? Capuli, Cham. & 

 Schlecht.), which however has very short pedicels. The fruit has a 

 rich spicy subacid flavor, and is said by Palmer to be sold in a dried 

 state throughout Mexico and used for making a refreshing drink. 



CuPHEA Llavea, Llav. & Lex. Rio Blanco, in ravines. (62.) 



CuPHEA TOLUCANA, Pcyr. ? Guadalajara, in moist shady places 

 among grass; August. (299.) — The same as Bourgeau's 611 and 

 2829, referred by Koehne to C. Wrightii, from which species it differs 

 in its much more scabrous pubescence, its larger flowers (calyx 4 or 5 

 lines long) on shorter pedicels (|- to rarely \h lines long), and 1 to 3 

 of its longer stamens slightly exceeding the calyx-tube. Like the 

 nearly allied G.Palmeri (which has a peculiar pubescence without pur- 

 plish hairs upon the stem and petioles, and the leaves only slightly sca- 

 brous) it has a broad ascending disk instead of the peculiar compressed 

 helicoid one of G. Wrightii. The on!}' specimens of O. Wrightii in herb. 

 Gray are from New Mexico, Arizona, and Sonora. 



CuPHEA Palmeri, Watson. Tequila, in ravines among grass. 

 (380.) 



CuPHEA PROCUMBENS, Cav. Guadalajara, in rich grassy bottoms ; 

 September. (428.) 



CuPHEA (Melvilla) viridostoma. Apparently perennial ; 

 stems herbaceous, decumbent, a foot long, glandular-pubescent : 

 leaves sessile or nearly so, narrowly lanceolate to linear, H inches 

 long or less, scabrous, sparingly hirsute above and ciliate; upper floral 

 leaves bract-like: peduncles mostly solitary in the axils, simple or 

 forked, 3 to 10 lines long: calyx narrow (9 to 12 lines long) with a 

 long spur, scarlet with more or less of yellow and a greenish throat, 

 the green teeth nearly equal and hispid ; tube pubescent within : 

 stamens 11, slightly pubescent, 4 to 6 a little exserted : ovary pubes- 

 cent ; style glabrous ; disk thick and pyramidal, projecting into the 



