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armed with a few small scattered prickles : leaves orbicular, deeply 

 cordate, shortly acuminate, entire, 2-4 inches in diameter, glabrous 

 at maturity, somewhat paler beneath ; petioles li-2i inches in length : 

 peduncles very long, becoming nearly a loot in length, each bearing a 

 regular rather closely 6 to 12-flowered cyme: pedicels thickened up- 

 ward and becoming deflexed in fruit, 3-8 lines long : sepals smooth, 

 ovate-oblong, obtuse, apiculate, in authesis but 2| lines in length, 

 becoming enlarged in fruit: corolla funnel-shaped, 1| inches long; the 

 tube and throat rather slender, white ; the limb bright blue (purple in 

 dried specimen), 1 ' inches in diameter : fruit globose, apiculate. — 

 Collected on hills about Tequila, 15 October, 1893 (no. 4531). 

 Distinguished by its strikingly long-peduncled inflorescences and 

 markedly bicolorous corolla. 



Evolvdlus pkostratus. Perennial : root perpendicular with 

 horizontal branches : proper stem very short ; branches 4 to 8, pros- 

 trate, simple, 4-G inches in length, silky-villous : leaves imbricated in 

 two rows and somewhat reflexed, suborbicular, rounded at the apex, 

 rounded or subcordate at the base, 4-5 lines in diameter, subsessile, 

 glabrous above, silky-villous beneath : buds and fruit entirely con- 

 cealed beneath the leaves: flowers raised between them; peduncles 

 1-J lines in length, equalling the calyx, both villous : corolla white, 2 

 lines in diameter: capsule 2-3-seeded ; seeds dull brown. — First col- 

 lected by Dr. Thomas Coulter in Mexico without exact locality (no. 

 1011); then by Bourgeau in the Valley of Mexico at Santa Fe, 5 July, 

 1865-6 (no. 323), wrongly referred to E. holosericeus, HBK. Col- 

 lected by Mr. Pringle on dry thin soil of hills near Guadalajara, 26 

 July, 1893 (no. 4445). In vegetative habit this species strongly sug- 

 gests Lysimachia nummularia. 



Bassovia Donnell-Smithii, Coulter (Bot. Gaz. xvi. 145). Mr. 

 Pringle has rediscovered this Guatemalan plant in the barranca of 

 Beltran, 6 June, 1893 (no. 4378). The range is thus considerably 

 extended. His specimens and field notes show that the stem is about 

 10 feet high, twice regularly dichotomously branched. The calyx is 

 somewhat accrescent, and the fruit is globular, orange-red, many- 

 seeded, and about 5 lines in diameter. 



Pinguicula parvifolia. Base a small loose bulb, 4 lines in 

 diameter, provided with a number of fine fibrous roots: leaves 3 to 

 5, elliptic-oblong, at the time of flowering not exceeding 3 lines in 

 length and 1]- lines in breadth ; petioles margined and becoming broad 

 and somewhat scarious below : scape single, strict or slightly curved, 

 very minutely glandular near the summit : the five segments of the 



