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edged lobes: corolla ovate-campanulate, 6 or 7 mm. long. — Chiapas, 

 mountain woods between San Cristobal Las Casas and Huitztan, March 10, 

 1896 (O. & E. Seler, no. 212G b ). Growing with P. ciliaris, Don, but 

 nearer related to P. coriacea, Klotzsch, from which it differs in its pale 

 and minutely puberulent branchlets, paler leaves and glaudless calyx. 



Arctostaphylos Conzattii. Shrub with smooth reddish bark easily 

 peeling from the branches : leaves oblong-oblanceolate, acute, 2 to 4 cm. 

 long, 0.75 to 1.5 cm. wide, entire aud subcuneate below to a short petiole, 

 sharply serrate above the middle, smooth and sublucid above, sparingly 

 sordid-pilose beneath : racemes terminal, panicled, 1 dm. or less lono- ; 

 the rachis, pedicels and short ovate-lanceolate bracts puberulent; pedicels 

 1-3-bracted, 1 cm. long : calyx puberulent, with ovate bluutish lobes : 

 corolla urceolate, glabrous, 5 or 6 mm. long. — Oaxaca, Sierra de San 

 Felipe, alt. 3,000 m., April 7 and 8, 1898 (C. Conzatti, no. 691). In its 

 inflorescence resembling A. nipestris, Robinson & Seatou, but differing 

 in its much smaller but more coarsely toothed leaves. 



A. glabrata. Shrub with smoothish gray-brown bark; the young 

 branches reddish-brown : leaves narrowly elliptic-oblong, acute or blunt, 



2 to 4 cm. long, about 1 cm. wide, tapering to short thick petioles 



3 or 4 mm. long, entire or sharply serrate with short mucronate teeth, 

 bright green above, paler beneath, ferrugineous-tomentulose when 

 young, becoming glabrate : racemes simple, terminal or axillary, 2 or 

 3 cm. long; the rachis, the lance-acuminate bracts, and the short (3 to 

 5 mm. long) pedicels ferrugineous-tomeutose, rarely a little glandular : 

 calyx slightly tomentulose, the lobes broadly deltoid : corolla urceolate, 

 glabrate, 4 or 5 mm. long : berries dark, 6 or 7 mm. in diameter. — 

 Oaxaca, ledges at the summit of Sierra de San Felipe, alt. 3,500 m., 

 Sept. 25, 1894 (C. G. Pringle, no. 5712), Aug. 15,1897 (O. Conzatti & 

 V. Gonzalez in Exsicc. Conzatti, no. 409) ; mountains about Yalalag, alt. 

 1,850 m., Aug. 1. 1894 {E. W. Nelson, no. 973). Related to A. argnta, 

 Zucc, but differing in its shorter leaves, and shorter simple essentially 

 ^landless raceme. 



Parathesis chiapensis. Branches stout, gray and smoothish, the 

 younger parts closely tomentose with short stellate ferrugiueous hairs : 

 leaves elliptic, 1.5 to 2 dm. long, narrowed above to a short slender 

 acumen and below to a thick cinereo-ferrugineous petiole 0.5 to 1 cm. 

 lontr; margin closely and finely crenate-dentate ; upper surface smooth 

 and dull, the lower ferrugineous-tomentose when young, becoming gla- 

 brate : panicle terminal, leafy below, in anthesis 1.5 dm. high, pyram- 

 idal, the spreading branches 3 to 6 cm. long, bearing many-flowered 

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