NEW YORK 

 BOTANICAL, 

 ^ CiAXDEN 



NEW SPECIES OF PLANTS FROM MEXICO. 



By T. S. Brandegee. 



The following species are described raaiuly from a collection 

 made by Mr. A, W. Anthony during the spring of 1897. All the 

 islands off the west coast of Lower California were visited by him, those 

 whose flora had already been collected, as well as others botanically 

 unexplored. A landing was made at San Bartclome Bay and other 

 coast localities, including San Jose del Cabo, I accompanied the 

 expedition to the latter place and then returned, while Mr. Anthony 

 visited the Revillagigedo group of islands 250 miles further south. 

 This group consists of Socorro, Clarion, and San Benedicto, and the 

 only knowledge of their flora had been obtained from a small collec- 

 tion made by the All)atross in 1889.* Mr. Anthony's collections 

 have added many species to the previously known flora of these 

 islands and also to that of the better-known Cedros, Guadaloupe, 

 and San Benito Islands. The coast from San Bartolome to below 

 Magdalena Bay was dry as a drought of two years' duration could 

 make it, and consequently only a small collection was made from 

 this part of the Peninsula, but something was learned concerning 

 the distribution of plants until then supposed to be insular. During 

 the return trip many localities were revisited and plants flowering 

 later in the season were collected. 



A great deal of credit is due to Mr. A. L. Stockton, who collected 

 most of the specimens and dried them in a small schooner under 

 unfavorable conditions of climate. A few of the following new 

 species are from collections made by Dr. C. A. Purpus in tlie spring 

 of 1898, about Santo Domingo, Calmalli and San Pablo of Central 

 Lower California, and some were collected by myself in various trips 

 into Baja California. 



Triumfetta Socorrensis. Frutescent, densely stellate- 

 csj tomentose: leaves cordate, broadly ovate, acuminate, 4—6 cm. long 

 2^ and nearly as broad, on petioles 2 cm. long or less, whiter and more 



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^^ *Proc. U. S. National Museum, Vol. xiii, p. 145. 



§ Ebythe-\, Vol. VII, No. 1 [5 Januarv, 1899]. 



