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florescentiis caules terrainantibus vel ad axillas superas 2-6-cymosis; 

 pedicellis brevibus albo-villosis ; tubo calycis brevi lobis 4 lineari- 

 lanceolatis longitudine inaequalibus albo-villosis 3-5 mm. longis; 

 corolla hj^pocrateriformi ut videtur siecata rosea ca. 4.5 cm. longa, 

 tnbo ca. 1 mm. lato extns plus miniisve villoso, lobis anguste ovatis 

 intus villosis, 1.9 cm. longis; antheris inclusis, filamentis brevibus; 

 stylo exserto 5.5 cm. longo ramis ca. 5.5 mm. longis. 



There is no suggestion of a bush about this handsome species. No. 

 9252 seems to be a glabrous broader leaved form of the same species. 

 Collected near Hacienda Monserrate. No, 9251. Type, Herb. Univ. 

 Calif. No. 223423. 



Guettarda insularis sp. no v. 



Frutex : f oliis late ovatis, acutis, 3-6 cm. longis, 2-4 cm. latis, 

 subtus venis prominentibus, utrinque deinde glabris; petiolis usque 

 ad 1 cm. longis ; stipulis lanceolatis : cymis 1-4 prope ad finem ramu- 

 lorum, pedunculis ca. 4 mm. longis : calycis limbo tubuloso-campanu- 

 lato, margine undulato, puberulo, ca. 3 mm. longo ; corollae tubo ca. 

 7 mm. longo, adpresse pubescenti, superne paulo ampliato ; lobis limbi 

 5, oblongis, ca. 2.5 mm. longis; staminibus apicibus paulo exsertis; 

 stylo minute 2-lobo. Fructus deest. 



Collected by A. W. Anthony, No. 377, and F. E. Barkelew, No. 179, 

 on Socorro Island of the Revillagigedo group, Mexico. Type, Herb. 

 Univ. Calif. No. 102472. 



Borreria radicosa sp, nov, 



Fruticosa patenter ramosa verisimiliter procumbens: caulibus ca. 

 2.5 cm. longis tetragonis, angulis retrorsum scabro-muricatis ; ramis 

 inferioribus radicibusque dense fibrato-radicatis : f oliis oppositis ad 

 axillas ramis brevissimis foliatisque instructis, utrinque glabris mar- 

 gine scabridis lanceolatis basi angustatis, ca. 1.7 cm. longis, 2 mm. 

 latis; stipulis glabris setis rigidis vaginam aequantibus; internodiis 

 1-2 cm. longis : floribus in capitulis caules terminantibus vel verti- 

 cillis axillaribus; capitulis foliis 4 involucratis intordum ad folia 

 supera ses,silibus involucra 6-f oliata simulantibus : f ructibus glabris 

 oblongis dentibus 2 corollam albam aequantibus coronatis; seminibus 

 laevibus. * 



This proposed species differs from B. podocephala in manner of 

 branching, its stem with scabrid angles, its dense fibrous rootlets of 

 the lower part of the stem and branches, and in other characters. The 

 plant is sprinkled with adhering sand. Collected near Jalisco, Chiapas, 

 growing in sand. No. 9223. Type, Herb. Univ. Calif. No. 223392. 



