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and branches sparingly covered with very short Btraight conical bj 



5 nun. in length) : otherwise corresponding closely t<> the typical W 

 Iinli:iii plant. — Collected by E. W. Nelson between Tnmbala and Kl 



0, Chiapas, Mexico, altitude 466 to 1,400 m.. 29 October, 1895, no. 

 12. Types in berb. Gray and herb. I S. Nat. Museum. 

 Polygonum Meisnerianum, Cham. & Scblecht., var. jalapense. 



Shu,-., ochreae, leaf-margins, and bracts covered with numerous stalked 

 glands; prickles (developed in the typical form) obsolete: leaves inclin- 

 ing to hastate lobing al the base.- -This is probably the /'. Meisn 

 iiiuiiii of Cham. & Schlecht. in Linnaea, v. 90, but much more glandular 

 than the typical form, characterized in Linnaea, iii. 10. — Collected by 

 i . < .. Pringle in wet places near Jalapa, Mexico, altitude 1,225 m., 5 



1. 1899, no. 81 1 1. This species appears to have been overlooked by 

 Mr. Hemsley, a> it is not recorded in the Biologia Centrali-Americana. 



Telanthera mollis. Branches lignescent, terete becoming bud- 

 quadrangular near the slightly tumid nodes, covered when young with a 

 iofl short spreading or even reflexed pubescence, al length quite 

 glabrate: leaves lance-oblong, entire, acute at each end, finely appressed- 

 pubescent and (in the dried state) rugulose above, much paler and 

 sericeous-tomentose beneath, 1 bo 6 or more cm. long, about half as 

 broad; pubescent petioles about 1 cm. long: heads oval, obtuse, leaf- 

 less, 1.1 to 2.2 cm. long, 1.1 cm. in diameter, borne in 2— 4-chotomous 

 spreading round-topped panicles: ultimate tomentose pedicels 1 to 1.5 

 cm. long; bracts ovate, acute: sepals oblong, acute and pungent, sub- 

 equal, 7 mm. long, dorsally covered with long dense Bilky hair: Btamineal 

 tube a little shorter than the ovary, the sterile segments 2.3 mm. long, 

 fimbriated above, about equalling the filaments and Bomewhat surpassed 

 by the anthers: style nearly as long as the ovary; Btigma globose, 

 bed. — Collected in Oaxaca in a canon above Totolapam by C. & E. 

 Seler, 3 January, 1896, no. 1637. Near T. pubiflora, Moq. and 

 char, i '/'. pycnantha, Moq. Differing from the former in its rounded 

 many-headed panic].- and from both in its larger Btrongly villous flowers. 

 Type in herb. ( J ray. 



Mimosa Deamii. Arborescent, 3 m. high: branches terete, unarmed. 

 fuscous, tomentulose and roughened 1>\ the enlarged persistent b 

 strigose hairs ; stipules Bhort, thickish, subulate, strigose: petioles 1.5 to 

 2.7cm. long: pinnae a single pair; their rhachises about 5 cm. long, 

 each bearing 5 to 6 pairs of leaflets, Btrigose; leaflets elliptical, rounded 

 at each end, coriaceous, glabrous above, sparingly Btrigose (chiefly on 

 the excentric midnerve) beneath. 2.3 to 8.6 cm. long, half as broad. 8-4- 



