44 PROCEEDINGS OF Tin: AMBBICAS ACADEMY. 



oorymbosis; involacri sqaamis oa L2 oblanceolatis acutis vel acutias- 

 i -u 1 i^. Bahia sinuata I,.-- Linnaea, v. n'»<> L830). />'. nepetaqfolia 

 Gray, Proa Am. Acad v. L84 (1861). — On rocky soil in Central and 

 Southern Mexico. Tin' following specimens have Keen examined. On 

 cliffs near llaeiemla ile la Laguna, Schiede, no. 358 (hb. Berlin, fr. 

 mentS in hb. Gra] ; between San Luis PotOfli ami Tampico, Palmer, 

 no. L090 hb. Gray ; l>are mountain ledges, Tamasopo ('afmn, San Luis 

 Potosi, Pringle, m». .■;i) , .i6 (hb. Gray); Wartenburg near Tantoyuea, 

 prov. Huaateca, Ervenberg t TUQ. 6. r >(hb. Gray) ; steep hanks of barrancas, 

 Zacuapan, Vera Cruz, Purpus, no. 1862, in part (hb. Gray). 



L. filipes Robinson, n. sp., fruticulus giacillimns prociimbens ra- 

 mosus ; ramis curvato-ascendentibus foliatis breviter pubescentibns ; 

 foliis graciliter petiolatis, lirnbo suborbiculari 1-1.8 cm diametro cre- 

 iiatd Mipra viriili obscure tomentello subtus incano-tomentello ; petiolo 

 1-1.."> cm. longo filiformi tiexuoso puberulo ; capitulis oa. 30-floris ax- 

 illaribus ; pedunculo 2-3.5 cm. longo filiformi ; involacri subturbinato- 

 eampanulati squamis ca. 7 obovatis obtusiusculis anthesi ca. 3 inm. 

 longis ; corollis 2.8 rum. longis, tubo proprio gracili glanduloso-puberulo 

 ca. 1 mm. longo, faucibus campanulatis liinbum fere aeqnantibns ; 

 pappi Bquamis interioribus ca. 0.4 mm. longis exterioribus o.2-o.:; mm. 

 longis; achaeniis 2.8 mm. longis deorsum valde angustatis. — Steep 

 banks of barrancas, Zacuapan, Vera Cruz, Mexico, Ma)-, L906, Purpus, 

 no. 1862, in put (type, in hb. Gray). 



This plant, which was sent to the writer by Mr. T. S. Brandegee, 

 proves to be a near relative and evident congener of the problematic 

 specie> originally decribed as Bahia sinuata by Lessing and later rede- 

 scribed by Dr. <iray as H. //< pctm/olia. Both plants differ from the 

 more typical species of Bahia in general habit, in the broad leaf-blade-, 

 which are very shallowly if at all cleft or lobed, in the absence of rays, 

 and in the Btrongly nnsymmetrieal pappus. To judge from Dr. Gray's 

 description and notes relating to his />'. nepetaefolia, he was much in- 

 clined to regard the plant as belonging to a separate genus and only 

 referred it to Bahia from a reluctance to increase the number of mono- 

 typic genera. The discovery by Mr. Purpus of a second plant main- 

 taining perfectly the generic distinctions of the first seems now to 

 warrant fully the recognition of the two as an independent genus. 



Tagetes stenophylla Robinson, n. sp., perennis erecta usipie ad 

 1 m. altitudine ramosa glaberrima basi suifrutescens ; caule tereti cos- 

 tato folioso glauoesoenti ; ramis ascendentibus gracilibus in pedunculus 

 longos nudos apioem 7ersus purpurasoentes el modice incrassatos ter- 

 iiiinantilius ; foliis 2-4 cm. longis pinnatifidis, rhachi anguste lineari, 

 mentis etiam Linearibus angustissimis atrinque ca. 3 acutis vel setu- 



