QASIDEN 



PLANTAE MEXICANAE PURPUSIANAE, XI 



BY 



TOWNSHEND STITH BEANDEGEE 



Tradescantia heterophylla, sp. nov. 



Ramosa, glabra: caulibus e radicibus fasciculato-tnberosis, phis 

 quam 5 dm. altis : foliis anguste linearibiis usque ad 15 cm. longis, 

 nunc 1 cm. latis, nunc 2 mm. latis : floribus in umbellis terminalibus 

 interdum axillaribus ; pedicellis 1-3 cm. longis ; pedunculis 4-6 cm. 

 longis ; staminibus consimilibus ; filamentis inf erne barbatis ; petalis 

 roseis sepala paululum superantibus ; seminibus rugosis. 



The pedicels of the umbel are sometimes divided and 2-flowered, 

 Collected in the Cape Region of Baja California by T. S. Brandegee 

 at Sierra El Taste, at Corral Piedra, and other localities. Type, Herb. 

 Univ. Calif. No. 142035. 



Gomphrena crassicaulis, sp. nov. 



Erecta plus quam 4 dm. alta, ramosa : ramis et caulibus paululum 

 hirsutis : foliis ovato-oblongis, apice acutis, basi in petiolum ca. 7 mm. 

 c^ longum angustatis, ca. 5 cm. longis, 1.5 cm. latis, utrinque appresso- 

 ^ hirsutis : spicis brevibus terminalibus vel axillaribus sessilibus ca. 1.5 

 '^ cm. latis, foliolis ovatis acutis dense sericeo-hirsutis eis brevioribus 

 •—^ involucratis ; bracteis late ovatis acuminatis concavis ; bracteolis quam 

 ^^ bracteis 4-plo. longioribus, ca. 8 mm. longis, longe acuminatis albis, 

 O dorso valde cristatis, crista lacerata-dentata ; segmentis perianthii 

 ^. lanceolatis quam bracteolis brevioribus; staminum tubo incluso; stylo 

 tubo breviori, stigmatibus 2 linearibus. 



This is a large plant of which the basal parts were not collected. 

 It is near G. Palmeri according to its description. The bractlets are 

 not indurated; the leaves are broadly oval, rounded, or obtuse at the 

 apex ; the crests are deeply lacerate rather than denticulate and the 

 stamen tube is not exserted. Collected at Acasonica. No. 8907. Type, 

 Herb. Univ. Calif. No. 205125. 



Lonchocarpus dumetorum, sp, nov. 



Ramis brunneis : racemis axillaribus terminalibusque usque ad 18 

 cm. longis ; pedunculis ca. 1 mm. longis 1-2-floris quam pedicellis 

 multo brevioribus : foliis ca. 15 cm. longis, 3-5-f oliolatis ; foliolis 



