FERNALD. — ACAPULCO PLANTS. 93 



Dentella repens, Forst. Char. Gen. 26, t. 13. A well known 

 species of Southern Asia and Australia. Growing about Acapulco in 

 ravines or in moist shaded walls of houses, November, 1894 (no. 65). 



Genipa (?) cinerea. A loosely branching shrub, with the cinereous 

 bark minutely pubescent: leaves chistered at the ends of the subhori- 

 zontal branches : spines 1 or 2 (or 0) toward the tips of the branches, 

 thickish at base, 6 to 9 mm. long : stipules broadly ovate, obtuse, 7 mm. 

 long, puberulent without, pilose within, somewhat persistent: leaves 

 coriaceous on dilated petioles 2J- to 4 cm. long, ovate or obovate, obtusish 

 at the tip, acute or obtuse at the base, 5 to 15 cm. long, 4 to 9 cm. broad, 

 short-pubescent and dull above, cinereous beneath with somewhat woolly 

 hairs ; veins prominent beneath : fruit apparently 1-celled, obovate, 7 cm. 

 long (including the short oblong beak), 5 cm. broad ; the firm rind 4 mm. 

 thick, with 6 or 8 prominent longitudinal ribs, and many irregular sec- 

 ondary ones, somewhat warty, the outer surface soft-pubescent with short 

 cinereous hairs, the inner surface straw-colored and shining : seeds very 

 many, brown and shining, oblong or suborbicular, about 1 cm. long, thin 

 and slightly concave on one side ; the thin testa tending to separate on 

 the edges from the horny albumen ; embryo plane, the terete radicle 

 nearly 2 mm. long, the reniform cotyledons about as broad. — Growing 

 among other plants for support in the high mountains near Acapulco, 

 January, 1895 (no. 348). Doubtfully referred to this genus. The ap- 

 parently 1-celled fruit seems to place it with Genipa, but the spinose 

 branches and horny albumen are more characteristic of Randia. The 

 seeds are apparently good, and flowering plants may possibly be secured 

 for further study. 



Montanoa Palmeri. Large upright shrub with habit of the Elder, 

 2 to 2^ m. high : branches terete, fuscous, striate, marked with lenticels, 

 glabrous : branchlets tomentulose : leaves ample, opposite, slender-peti- 

 oled, rhombic, crenate, 10 or 12 cm. long, 7 or 8 cm. broad, caudate- 

 acuminate, with a single strong angle or short lobe on each side, 

 5(-7)-nerved from very near the base, roughish above, slightly paler and 

 tomentulose beneath ; the uppermost leaves ovate, crenate but not lobed : 

 corymb ample : bracts linear : heads 1 cm. in diameter : scales of in- 

 volucre lance-oblong, acute, silky-villous, 6 mm. long: disk-flowers 10 to 

 12, with tube shorter than the throat; ray -flowers 5; rays white, 6 or 

 7 mm. long, two thirds as broad: chaff very woolly and with slightly 

 pungent at length recurved tips. — Collected on hillsides near Acapulco, 

 November, 1894 (no. 44). The white flowers have a strong fragrance 

 suggesting apple blossoms. 



