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Physalis puberula. Annual?; puberulent throughout with fine 

 appressed or incurved white hairs : branches slender, terete below, angu- 

 late above: leaves ovate, subentire or slightly sinuate, 3 to 7.5 cm. long, 

 1.5 to 4 cm. broad, acuminate at tip, rounded or subcordate at base; 

 petioles slender, 1 to 4 cm. long: peduncle U.5 to 1 cm. long, straight but 

 soon recurved: calyx in antbesis 6 to 8 mm. long, the deltoid-lanceolate 

 acuminate lobes equalling the tube: corolla 1.5 to 2.5 cm. broad, sulphur- 

 yellow with brown patches at centre: anthers yellowish: fruiting calyx 

 ovate, 2.5 to 3 cm. long, obscurely 5-angled, slightly sunken at base, the 

 counivent deltoid-lanceolate teeth 0.7 to 1 cm. long. — Mexico, Sacro 

 .Monte, Amecameca, Aug. 31, 1900 (C. G. Pringle, no. 9147) ; Guade- 

 loupe. Aug. 9, 1865-6 (Bourgeau, no. 724) : Dukango, Duraugo, 1896 

 (JSdw. /'aimer, no. 348). Somewhat resembling the northern P. phila- 

 delphica, Lam., but with persistent close pubescence and more ovate leaves. 

 M r. Pringle's plant was accidentally distributed as P. Pringlei (with 

 incorrect authority), a name belonging to a very different plant with long 

 glandular pubescence. 



Solandm rostratum, Dun., var. subintegrum. Leaves sparingly 

 pubescent above, shallowly siuuate-lobed, not pinnatifid : otherwise as in 

 the species. — Mexico, Tacuba, valley of Mexico, Sept. 18, 1900 (C. G. 

 Pringle, no. 9268). 



Ruellia (Physiruellia) cupheoides. Slender shrub, 1 to 1.5 m. 

 high, the quadrangular verrucose branches covered with gray bark, the 

 younger parts pilose: leaves elliptic-ovate or ovate-oblong, 3 to 5 cm. 

 long, short-acuminate, pilose, on slender petioles 0.5-1 cm. long: peduncles 

 axillary, divergent, slender, pilose and verrucose, 2 to 6 cm. long, termi- 

 nated by a single flower or branching and bearing 2 flowers; bracts 2, 

 linear-spatulate, in age becoming 1.5 cm. long: calyx pilose, 1.5 to 2 cm. 

 long, cleft two-thirds to the base into lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate acu- 

 minate ciliate lobes: corolla tubular, 3.5 cm. long, yellow or reddish, 

 with short erect blunt greenish lobes; the slightly narrowed tube shorter 

 than the calyx : Btamens subequal, included ; filaments glabrous ; anthers 

 linear-oblong, 1 or 5 nun. long: style bearded; capsule oblong-obovoid, 

 short-pointed, equalling the calyx, glabrous ; seeds four, thin, ovate, 0.5 cm. 

 long, dark, with narrow pale margin. — Guerrero, limestone mountains 

 above [guala, alt. 1,230 in.. Sept. 27, 1900 (C. G. PringU, no. 8409). 



Valeriana retrorsa. Slender, 2 to 1 dm. high, from a small oblong 

 tuber; Btem densely retrorse-hispid below, glabrous above: leaves 3 to 

 5 cm. long, the basal Bhort-petioled, the upper sessile ; leaflets 8 to 5 pairs, 



lineal- lanceolate, blunt, the lowest pair minute, the terminal leaflet much 



