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June, 1897, no. 141 ; and by C. G. Pringle on hills near Oaxaca, altitude 

 1700 m., 2 July, 1897, no. G72G. 



A species related to H. fndicosum, L., and to which some of the 

 above cited specimens have been referred, but from which it is distin- 

 guished by the reflexed pubescence in the stems and branches, the 

 two kinds of pubescence on the leaves, and finally by the shorter 

 flowers and more obtuse calyx-divisions. From H. rugosum. Mart. & 

 Gal., it may be distinguished by the pubescent fruit, and foliar charac- 

 ters. Through the kindness of M. Casimir DeCandolle, to whom I 

 am very deeply grateful for many comparisons with type material, our 

 plant was compared with H. Oaxacamcm, DC, from which species it is 

 amply distinct in the form of the leaves, pubescence, and calyx. 



^giphila pacifica. Shrub 2.5 to 7 m. high: stems and branches 

 terete, covered with a grayish brown bark and dotted here and there 

 with lenticels, glabrous : branchlets terete, somewhat compressed at the 

 nodes, fulvous-pubescent: leaves opposite, oblong-ovate, 5 to 15 cm. 

 long, 3.5 to 7.5 cm. broad, more or less acuminate, entire, rounded or 

 rather abruptly narrowed at the slightly unequal base, glabrous or at 

 least glabrate above, with scattered tawny subappressed hairs beneath 

 especially upon the midrib and veins : petioles less than 1 cm. in length : 

 inflorescence terminating the stems and branches in rather close panicu- 

 late cymes ; peduncles, pedicels, the subulate bracts and calyx covered 

 by a fulvous subappressed pubescence : calyx about 4 mm. long, 4-lobed ; 

 lobes broader than long, submucronate, greenish: corolla tubular, 10 to 

 12 mm. long, glabrous; tube somewhat ampliated above; lobes oblong- 

 elliptic, about 4 mm. long, obtuse : stamens equal or rarely unequal, 

 exserted ; filaments pubescent below, glabrous above : drupe yellow, 

 obovoid, 8 to 10 mm. long, 6 to 8 mm. in diameter, one half or more 

 exserted from the persistent coriaceous subcrenately lobed, cup-shaped 

 calyx. — Collected by E. W. Nelson, on Maria Madre Island of the Tres 

 Marias group of islands, 3-25 May, 1897, no. 4245 (in flower), and no. 

 4254 (in fruit). 



A species related apparently to ^giphila brachiata, Cham. & Schlecht., 

 but Mr. Nelson's plant certainly does not accord with the description of 

 this species as to the character of the pubescence and the color of the 

 flowers. 



Salvia aliena, Greene, Pittonia, i. 157. Excellent specimens of 

 this very well marked species of Salvia were secured by Mr. E. W. 

 Nelson on Maria Madre Island of the Tres. Marias group of islands, 3-25 

 May, 1897, no. 4247. Mr. Nelson states that the plant is an herb from 



