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ovate or slightly obovate, 4 to 7 cm. long, 2 to 3.5 cm. broad, abruptly 

 acuminate to an obtusish apex, entire or somewhat repand, narrowed at 

 the base to a short petiole, glabrous above except on the puberulent mid- 

 rib, pubescent below, the midrib and veins prominent on the lower sur- 

 face, nerves not strongly reticulated: petioles barely 3 mm. in length: 

 ochrfe about 2 mm. long, deciduous: fruiting calyx 2.5 cm. long; tube 

 4 mm. long; inner divisions of the calyx small, linear, acute : akene nar- 

 rowly ovate-acuminate, glabrous below, above bearing a trace of pubes- 

 cence on the acute angles, the lower portion triangularly 3-lobed with 

 shallowly furrowed lobes and rather deeply sulcate faces. — Collected by 

 C. G. Pringle in Tomellin Canou, Oaxaca, altitude 925 m., 7 December, 

 1895, no. 7008. 



A species in general aspect similar to R. fusca, Fern., but with differ- 

 ently outlined and less reticulately veined leaves, smaller fruiting calyx, 

 and essentially glabrous akene. 



Iresine discolor. Sluub : stems terete, covered with a grayish 

 bark and often dotted with numerous lenticels, the ultimate bianches 

 finely tomentose, somewhat compressed at the nodes: leaves opposite, 

 petiolate, ovate-lanceolate, elliptic-lanceolate, or sometimes ovate, acute, 

 1 to 5 cm. long, 5 to 20 mm. broad, usually strongly discolorous, finely 

 pubescent or even tomentose and granulose above, densely soft-fomentose 

 beneath, acute or obtusish at the apex, margin entire, narrowed at the 

 base into a short pubescent petiole; petioles 3 to 6 mm. long: inflores- 

 cence of rather small panicles terminating the branches; the branches of 

 the panicles bearing pedicelled spikelets with tomentose rhachises ; bracts 

 scarious, broadly 1 -nerved, ovate, obtusish: flowers dioecious: staminate 

 flowers about 2 mm. long ; divisions of the calyx scarious, oblong-elliptic, 

 obtuse ; stamens united at the base into a short cup, the 5 staminodea 

 two thirds as long as the filaments, hirtellous ; the rudimentary ovary 

 with sessile shortly 2-lobed stigmas: pistillate flowers about 2 mm. long; 

 calyx divisions elliptic-lanceolate, acutish, distinctly 1 -nerved, with scari- 

 ous margins ; ovary glabrous ; styles short with 2 (to 3) long slender 

 stigmas. — Collected by C. G. Pringle and C. Conzatti in Santa Catarina 

 Canon, altitude 1000 m., 4 July, 1897, Conzatti's no. 231 ; also by C. G. 

 Pringle in Tomellin Canon, altitude 1230 m., 4 July, 1897, no. 6713, 

 and in the same locality, altitude 1000 m., 17 May, 1894, no. 5787. 

 The latter number, although differing slightly in foliar characters, has 

 the same floral structure, and is said by Mr. Pringle to be the same as 

 no. 6713. 



Eatis maritima, L. Syst. Nat. ed. 10, 1176. This species, not 



