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giiiicidally septifragal, the valves falling away from the replum ; seeds in 

 several (4 or more) rows. — Collected by Professor A. Duges, Guana- 

 juato, 1893-1894, no. Ill; Mrs. D. H. Sheldon, Lilos, Guanajuato, 

 April, 1893, no. 52; Rev. Lucius C. Smith at Jayacatlan, Oaxaca, 

 3 June, 1894, no. 16, and at Monte Alban, altitude 1840 m., 26 July, 

 and in November, 1894, no. 148; C. G. Pringle, Monte Alban, altitude 

 1780 m., 23 November, 1894, no. 5836, and in the same locality, July 

 1897, no. 6724 ; Rev. Lucius C. Smith, El Parin, Oaxaca, 15-17 June, 

 1895, and in October, 1894, no. 445; C. Conzatti and V. Gonzalez, 

 San Martin, Etla, Oaxaca, altitude 1800 m., 13 June and 8 August, 

 1897, no. 308. Said to be a " wonderfully beautiful climber with royal 

 purple flowers." 



Distictis cinerea. Pithecoctenium cinereum, DC Prodr. ix. 195. 

 Although only flowering specimens of this species are at hand, I have 

 no hesitation in transferring it to the genus Distictis as its affinity is 

 clearly with D. laxijiora and D. gnaphaJantha. D. cinerea differs from 

 D. laxijiora by the more ovate or oval character of the leaflets and the 

 more dense cinereous pubescence on leaves and branches. — To this 

 species may be referred specimens collected by E. W. Nelson near Tama- 

 zulapam, altitude 2000 to 2150 m., 16 November, 1894, no. 1958. 

 M. Casimir DeCandoUe has very kindly identified this as well as the 

 preceding species with the types in the DeCandolle Herbarium at 

 Geneva. 



Distictis gnaphalantiia, Benth. &, Hook. f. Gen. ii. 1038. To 

 this species may be referred specimens collected by Mr. Robert Combs 

 at Calicita, Cuba, 31 May, 1895, no. 106, distributed under Bignonia 

 gnapJialantha, Rich. 



Dyschoriste quadrangularis, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. ii. 486. 

 Calophanes quadrangularis, Oerst., Vidensk. Meddel. 1854, 120. It is 

 interesting to note that this apparently rare plant has been collected at 

 Las Canoas, State of San Luis Potosi, 29 August, 1891, Pringle, no. 

 5020. Mr. Pringle's plant hitherto having been confused with D. bila- 

 biatus, O. Kuntze, 1. c. {Calophanes hilahiatus, Seem.), from which 

 species, however, it is readily distinguished by the smaller flowers, and 

 by the absence of a glandular pubescence. 



Beloperone comosa, Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 416; Hemsl. Biol. 

 Cent.-Am. Bot. ii. 516. B. Pringlei^ Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. xxv. 160. 

 The type of Dr. Watson's B. Pringlei, upon careful comparison with an 

 authentic specimen of the above species collected at Monterey by Dr. 

 Edwards, shows an exact correspondence in every regard, and it also 



