UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PUBLICATIONS 



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Vol. 7, No. 10, pp. 325-331 December 29, 1920 



PLANTAE MEXICANAE PURPUSIANAE, X 



BY 



TOWNSHEND STITH BEANDEGEE 



LIBRARY 



NEW YtfkX 



. botanscal 



QARijife;^ 



Hechtia glabra, sp. no v. 



Undique glabra : scapo alto, pimiato ; ramulis patentibus multifloris, 

 inferioribiis ca. 2.3 dm. longis, 2-3 cm. distantibus : foliis gradatim 

 attenuatis margine siniiatis, spinis adscendentibus ca. 2 mm. longis 

 praeditis, supra nitentibus subtus multo lineati.s : bracteolis capsulas 

 subtendentibus parvis : capsnlis plerumque sessilibus interdnm pedi- 

 cellis ca. 7mm. longis; sepalorum tubo ca. 1mm. longo, lobis ovato- 

 lanceolatis ; petalis lanceolatis planis ca. 3 mm. longis quam sepalis 

 dnplo longioribns, basi sepalorum tubo adnatis ; capsulis ca. 5 mm. 

 longis apice stylos ca. 1.5 mm. longas recurvos gerentibus. Specimen 

 frugiferens solum visum. 



The specimens are fragmentary. The upper parts of the leaves, 

 the only parts collected, are 5 dm. long. The panicle seems to be 

 pinnate but may be bipinnate and is at least 5 dm. high. The attach- 

 ment of the pedicellate capsules to their pedicels forms a right angle 

 and the pedicel is closely appre.ssed to the stem. Collected at Barranca 

 de Panoaya, Vera Cruz. No. 8506. Type, Herb. Univ. Calif. No. 

 204966. 



Hechtia Purpusii, sp. nov. 



Foliis lanceolatis, e basi ad apicem gradatim attenuatis, basi ca. 

 1.8 cm. latis, usque ad 20 cm. longis, utrinque lineatim peradpresse 

 lepidotis, pallidis, margine spinis minutissimis numerosis praeditis: 

 scapo 5-6 dm. alto, glabro : inflorescentia tripinnatim laxe paniculata, 

 multitlora, ramulis usque ad 13 cm. longi.s, pedicellis ca. 3 mm. longis, 

 quam bracteolis lineari-laneeolatis duplo longioribns; petalis oblongis 

 ca. 2 mm. longis, albis obtusis ; ovario glabro. 



.— This Eccliiia differs from other species of the genus in having 



cr> leaves of a thin texture margined with inimerous minute spines. 

 Collected in Barranca de Tenampa, Vera Cruz, growing on steep rocks. 

 ^ No. 8420. Type, Herb. Univ. Calif. No. 200824. 



