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keep S. chrysotrlchuni separate from Persoon's species. Vera Cruz, 

 Cordoba, alt. 830 m., Aug. 20, 1891 {H. E. Seaton, no. 395) ; Jico, July 

 16, 1893 (E. TV. Mlson, no. 24) : Orizaba, Jan. 28, 1894 (E. W. Nel- 

 son, no. 45) : OxVxaca, Calderon, alt. 1,850 m., San Juan del Estado, 

 Juue IS, 1894 (Z. C. Smith, no. 3G) ; near Reyes, alt. 1,785 to 2,0G0 

 m., Oct. 24, 1894 {E. W. Nelson, wo. 1785) : Chiapas, near Tumbala, 

 alt. 1,230 to 1,690 m., Oct. 20, 1895 {E. W. Nelson, no. 3331): Guate- 

 mala, Santa Rosa, alt. 925 m., June, 1892, San Miguel Uspantiiu, alt. 

 1,850 m., Apr., 1892 {Heyde & Lux in exsicc. J. D. Smith, nos. 3441, 

 3448): Costa Rica, Cartago, alt. 1,650 m., Dec, 1887 (^Jnan J. 

 Cooper, in exsicc. J. D. Smith, no. 5870). 



Three species of the subsection Torvaria, described from Mexico, are 

 still obscure and perhaps not recently collected. These are S. amlctum, 

 Moric. in Duual 1. c. 263; S. rude-pannum, Dunal, 1. c. 264; S. Lani' 

 berti, Dunal, 1. c. 268. 



III. — SOME UNDESCRIBED MEXICAN PHANEROGAMS, 

 CHIEFLY LABIATAE AND SOLANACEAE. 



Pelexia Pringlei. Roots clustered, cylindric, whitish, tuberiform, 

 0.5 to 1 dm. long : leaves 3, at the base of the bracteate scape, long- 

 petioled, with smooth entire oblong to ovate-lanceolate acuminate blades 

 8 to 12 cm. long, about 4 cm. wide: scape about 3 dm. high, sparingly 

 pubescent above, with about 8 sheathing lanceolate bracts : spike 1 dm. 

 long, rather loosely flowered : bracts lance-acuminate, 3 cm. long, much 

 exceeding the ovary : sepals greenish, lanceolate, acuminate, two of 

 them free and somewhat di-ooping, 2 cm. long, the others united to form 

 a blunt galea; lip short and rounded, exceeded by the beak of the 

 stigma ; spur adnate to the ovary : anther ovate, bluntish, 5 m. long. 

 — Vera Cruz, wooded hills near Ja-lapa, alt. 1,230 m., April, 1899 

 (C. G. Pringle, no. 8122). Habitally resembling P. setacea, Lindl. 

 {Neottia calcarata, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 3403), but with adnate spur, and 

 shorter blunter sej^als galea and lip. 



Scutellaria distans. Stems slender, flexuous, 3 to 4 dm. long, 

 somewhat recurved-pilose on the angles ; internodes rather long (3 to 

 5 cm.) : leaves firm, sparingly appressed-pubescent or glabrate, fan- 

 shaped, broader than long, upper from deltoid-ovate to rhombic-ovate, 



