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locality. The plant has now been rediscovered by Mr. Pringle on 

 shaded ledges in the barranca of Tequila, 14 October, 1893 (no. 

 4550), thus definitely establishing its geographical position. We are 

 indebted to M. Autran of the Boissier Herbarium for a positive 

 identification of Mr. Pringle's specimens with the type. Some of the 

 leaves show a slight tendency to be 3-lobed and somewhat repand. 



Euphorbia Jaliscensis. Glabrous and somewhat glaucous: 

 stem stout, erect, dichotomous, striate : leaves panduriform, dentate 

 near the apex and base, obtuse, paler beneath, 1\ iuches long, \\- 2 

 inches broad, narrowed at the base ; petioles 8-10 lines long, flat, 

 striate, purple above and with narrow green margins : glands 4, oblong ; 

 appendages narrow, green, 2-parted ; divisions bluntly toothed : seg- 

 ments of the involucre fimbriated : capsule large, short-oblong, gla- 

 brous, 3 lines long, 2^ lines broad ; seeds columnar, tetragonal, mottled, 

 \\ lines long; caruncle conspicuous, cup-shaped. — Collected in the 

 barranca of Tequila, 26 September, 1893 (no. 4608). A plant with 

 much the habit of E. Francoana, Boiss., and E. cupkosperma, Boiss., 

 as well as some forms of E. heterophylla, L. From all these it is dis- 

 tinguished by its considerably larger capsules. 



Phyllanthus Tequilensis. Branches subterete, with a reddish- 

 brown, scaly bark; branchlets more or less distinctly angled: leaves 

 distichous, large, ovate-elliptic, rounded to acute at the apex, rounded 

 at the base, smooth and glaucous upon both surfaces, paler beneath ; 

 the larger ones about 4 inches long, 3 inches broad ; veins white, 

 slightly prominent beneath; petioles 2 lines long; stipules oblan- 

 ceolate, obtusish at the apex, cuneate at the base, 4-5 lines long, 

 narrowly white-margined, deciduous : staminate inflorescences chiefly 

 axillary, cymose or cymose-paniculate, many flowered, 1-2 inches 

 long; branches filiform; pedicels 1-1^ lines long; fertile inflores- 

 cences terminal upon short branches, fewer flowered ; pedicels a little 

 thicker and longer : calyx of the staminate flower 6-parted ; segments 

 broadly oblong, rounded at the apex, inconspicuously pinnately veined, 



1 line long ; glands 6, often somewhat united into pairs, transversely 

 elliptical, crenate : stamineal column scarcely developed, not at all pro- 

 duced beyond the anthers ; anthers only two, 2-celled, transversely 

 dehiscent: calyx of the fertile flower 6-7-parted ; segments \\ lines 

 long ; glandular cup 6-7-lobed : styles 3, shortly bifid ; mature capsule 

 depressed-globose, shallowly S-lobed, glabrous, reticulated, 1^ inches 

 in diameter, excavated at the base ; seeds ovate in outline, finely 

 striated, 4 lines long. — Collected upon hills about Tequila, Jalisco, 



2 July and 2 October, 1893 (no. 5490). This species is reluctantly 



