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Crusea coccinea, DC, var. pubescens. Leaves ovate, acute, 

 often short-acumiuate, covered above with a scattered hirsute pubescence : 

 corolla-tube, especially the lower slender portion, pubescent on the outer 

 surface. — Collected by E. W. Nelson, on the west slope of Mt. Zempo- 

 altepec, altitude 2,100 to 2,400 m., 5-13 July, 1894, no, 581 ; also on 

 the northwestern slope of the same mountain, altitude 2,400 to 3,000 m,, 

 ' 10 July, 1894, no. 699. Differs fi'om the species proper by the smaller 

 leaves, the pubescence of the same, and by the pubesceut corolla. 



Crusea cruciata, Watson, var. villosior. Stem f to 1 m. in 

 height: leaves lanceolate, acuminate, 9 to 12 cm. long, 1 to 2 cm. broad; 

 floral leaves villous-pubescent on the lower surface near the base : flowers- 

 white to purple. — Collected by Dr. E. Palmer, at Jalisco, 1886, no. 

 901, and by C. G. Pringle, near Cuernavaca, altitude 1,600 m., 17 Sep- 

 tember, 1896, nos. 6508, 7225. With habit, laciniate stipules, and 

 essential characters of the type, but somewhat more robust, and with a 

 rather striking villous pubescence on the broadened basilar portion of the 

 floral leaves. 



Crusea villosa, Watson, founded upon Pringle's no. 2448 from 

 Jalisco, collected in 1890, also Pringle's no. 3257 from the same locality, 

 collected in 1890 and distributed under the above name, may be referred 

 to Crusea Palmeri, Gray. Notwithstanding the somewhat remote locali- 

 ties, both of Mr. Pringle's numbers are identical with Dr. Gray's type, 

 collected by Dr. Edward Palmer in Southwestern Chihuahua. 



Galium prsetermissum. Perennial : the slender woody roots 

 containing a red coloring matter : stems 3 to 4| dm. long, slender, weak, 

 decumbent, purplish at the base, green above, glabrous or hispidulous on 

 the angles : leaves in fours, sessile, linear-lanceolate, 8 to 14 mm. long, 

 1 to 3 mm. broad, acute, margin revolute (hispidulous on the older leaves), 

 upper surface usually hispidulous, shining, glabrous beneath : flowers in 

 subtrichotomous cymes : pedicels 3 to 10 mm. long, glabrous or minutely 

 hispidulous : corolla rotate, yellow, 4(-3)-lobed ; lobes ovate-oblong, ob- 

 tuse or short-acuminate and obtusish: fruit long-hirsute with uncinate 

 hairs. — Collected by C. G. Pringle, in pine woods, base of Sierra de 

 Ajusco, altitude 2,460 m., 19 September, 1896, no. 6596. A species with 

 the habit of G. Mexicnnum, HBK., but with leaves in fours, not pun- 

 gent-acuminate, and with much longer uncinate hairs on the fruit. 



Viburnum elatum, Benth. Excellent flowering and fruiting speci- 

 mens, apparently belonging to this species, have been secured by Mr. 

 Pringle, and the following additional characters may be noted. Drupe 

 ovoid, 12 to 14 mm. long, black, covered with a blue bloom ; stone flat, 



