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keep 8. chrysolrichum separate from Persoon's Bpecies. Vera Cruz, 

 Cordoba, alt 830 m., Aug. 20, 189] I //. /-'. Section, do. 895) ; Jico, July 

 16, I- 18 ( B. II'. Nelson, do. 24): Orizaba, Jau. 28, L894 I B. W. Net- 

 , . i, o. 15)'. Oaxai v. Calderoo, alt. 1,850 m., San Juan del Estado, 

 Junr 18, L894 (/.. 0. Smith, do. 86); Dear Reyes, alt. 1,785 to 2,060 

 to., Oct. 24, 1894 ( A'. W. Nelson,no. L785) : Chiapas, Dear Tumbala, 

 alt. 1,230 to 1,690 m., Oct. 20, L895 I E. W. Nelson, do. 8381 l: Gi \n- 

 mala, Saota Rosa, alt. 925 m., June, 1892, Sao Miguel Qspantan, alt. 

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

 8448): Costa Rica, Cart:.-", alt. 1,650 m., Dec., 1887 (Juan J. 

 Cooper, in exsicc. J. D. Smith, do. 5S70). 



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

 still obscure and perhaps nut recently collected. These are S. amictum, 

 Moric. in DunaJ 1. c. 203; S. rude-pannum, Dunal, 1. c. 20 1; »S'. Lam- 

 berth, Dunal, 1. c. 2G3. 



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, Iong- 

 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 drooping, 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 Dear Jalapa, alt. 1,230 m., April, 1899 

 (O. G. Pringh, no. 8122). Habitally resembliDg P. setacea, Lindl. 

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

 shorter blunter sepals galea and lip. 



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

 Bomewhat recurved-pilose on the angles; internodes rather loog (3 to 

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

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



