XEW PLANTS FROM MEXICO. / 



on petioles 1-2 mm. long, the upper ones gradually becoming sessile 

 bracts ; flowers solitary on peduncles 5-7 mm. long ; calyx 5 mm. 

 long, deeply lobed ; corolla white 10-12 mm. long; seeds 2-3 mm. 

 long furnished above with a few bristles. 



Very closely related to T. Town-^endii Vasey & Rose,* of Clarion 

 Island, Jiud might perhaps be considered a variety of that species. 

 It differs in having narrower and longer leaves not so densely 

 crowded upon the steins, lobes of the corolla not as broad and 

 rounded, lobes of the calyx narrower and seed differently marked. 

 Anthony's Ko. 385. Socorro Island. 



Euphorbia Anthonyi. Frutescent, 2^ dm. or more high, much 

 branched, glabrous; leaves opjjosite, 1—1^ cm, long, 5-8 mm. wide, 

 fleshy, crowded, 2-3 tini^s longer than the internodes, more or less 

 broadly oblong or somewhat oblong-obovate, obliquely truncate or 

 cordate at base, entire; stipules small, triangular-setaceous; invo- 

 lucres 2 mm. long, crowded in axillary capitate clusters along one 

 surface of the ends of the brandies; glands 4, dark brown, usually 

 without appendages but sometimes very narrow dark brown ones 

 can be found; capsule 1-H- mm. long, pubescent, obtusely angled, 

 twice the length of the 2-cleft styles; seeds oblong, pointed, 4-:ingled, 

 ash-colored and deeply rugose upon the faces, 1 mm. long. 



The leaves are usually very oblique and many are rose-colored 

 about the margins. The crowded involucres are almost black and 

 contrast conspicuously with the light green leaves. San Beuedicto 

 Island. Anthony's No. 869. 



Acalypha umbrosa. Frutescent, shortly pubescent and glan- 

 dular; stems terete, purple, branched; leaves ovate, crenate-serrate, 

 obtuse or acuminate, truncate at base, 10-14 cm. long, including 

 the 4-5-cm. -long petioles : sterile spikes 2— 3 cm. long on peduncles 

 of the same length : fertile spikes axillary, 6-7 cm. long, loosely 

 flowered ; bracts 1-2 flowered, subequally 14-25-toothed, 6-7 mm- 

 wide, the margins beset with stipitate glands; styles 3, twice 

 divided; capsule hirsute; seed ovoid, nearly black, with white 

 caruncle and under a lens minutely roughened. Socorro Island. 

 Anthony's No. 375. 



Euphorbia Clarionensis. Frutescent, 2^ dm. or more high, 

 much branched, glabrous; leaves opposite, 1-2. cm. long, 5-8 mm. 



*Proc. U. S. National Museum, xiii, 146. 



