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cm. long, 1 to 1.5 cm. broad, obtuse, crenate-serrate, cuneate at the base 

 into a flattish or narrowly winged ciliate petiole ; petioles of the lower 

 leaves nearly or quite equalling the blade, more or less continuous about 

 the stem : verticillasters in the axils of the upper leaves, about 6- 

 flowered : flowers 1 cm. long : calyx pubescent with spreading stiff 

 hairs : corolla nearly twice exceeding the calyx, conspicuously 2-lipped ; 

 the 3-lobulate lower lip exceeding the galeate externally pubescent upper 

 lip. — Mexico. State of Chihuahua : in the Sierra Madre, near Colonia 

 Garcia, altitude 2450 m., 17 July, 1899, Townsend £$■ Barber, no. 128 

 (hb. Gr.). 



A species resembling in general habit S. agraria, Cham. & Schlecht., 

 from which, however, it is readily distinguished by the oblong cuneate 

 leaves, and by the mostly spreading not reflexed hairs of the stem. 



Capsicum frutescens, Linn., var. lanicaule. Stems more or less 

 densely lanate-villous-pubescent : leaves ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 3 to 

 8 cm. long, 1 to 3.5 cm. broad, mostly villous-pubescent especially along 

 the midrib and lateral veins beneath ; petioles 0.5 to 3 cm. long : flowers 

 solitary, axillary, nodding in anthesis : fruit oblong or oblong-lanceolate, 

 2 to 3 cm. Ions, 1 to 1.2 cm. in diameter. — Mexico. State of Oaxaca : 

 altitude 1550 m., 5 September, 1899, V. Gonzalez, no. 975 (hb. Gr.). 

 State of Jalisco: near Guadalajara, September, 188G, Dr. Edward 

 Palmer, nos. 639, 640, 642 (hb. Gr.). 



Senor Gonzalez's specimens, on account of the copious pubescence of 

 stem and foliage, seem at first sight to represent a distinct species, but 

 the examination of a series of specimens representing Capsicum fru- 

 tescens, L., shows very clearly that this species is sometimes rather con- 

 spicuously pubescent, hence it has seemed best for the present at least to 

 regard the Gonzalez plant as a variety to which may be referred, as 

 somewhat less pubescent forms, the above numbers collected by Dr. 

 Palmer. 



Brachistus Pringlei, Watson, Proc. Am. Acad. xxv. 159. Hereto 

 should be referred specimens collected at Santa Rosa, Department of 

 Santa Rosa, Guatemala, altitude about 1000 m., Heyde fy Lux, nos. 3436, 

 4545 (exsic. John Donnell Smith), distributed as " Capsicum frutescens, 

 L." The Guatemalan specimens here cited are somewhat less pubescent 

 than in typical B. Pringlei, but in all essential characters they accord 

 well with the original or type of that species. From descriptions of 

 B. diversifoliiis, Miers, the B. Pringlei must be very closely related if 

 indeed it does not represent the same species ; but until a comparison 

 of the original specimens of the two species can be made, it would not 



