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densely ferrugino-stellate pubescent. Female flower short-pedicellate, 

 bicolorate (dark within light without) color and pubescence a counterpart 

 of that of the leaves; cal3rx lobes 5, spatulate, deeply 3-5-dentate toward 

 the apex; ovary ovate, rusty-hairy, styles 3 each bifid to the base, the 

 branches long and cyHndrical, with flattened, incoiled apices. Male 

 flower bicolorate as in the female, pedicellate; calyx 5-lobed the lobes 

 ovate, obtuse; petals 5, obovate-spatulate, thin, red-brown; stamens 6, 

 filaments with a tuft of hairs at the base. Capsule densely stellate- 

 pubescent, enclosed in the persistent calyx; seed flatly scaraboid, 3x2 

 mm., caruncle very thin, papyraceous. 



Yucatan, at Yot Tzonot, Gaumer ijiq (Type in herb. Field Museum 

 cat. no. 438,278). 



Tragia {Eutragia) yucatanensis sp. nov. 



An erect, shrubby climber, i meter high. Stem terete, puberulent, 

 branches virgate; stipules small, cordate-lanceolate, acute, closely ap- 

 pressed to the stem; petioles one-third to one-half the length of the leaf 

 blade; leaves ovate-lanceolate, 3-6 x 2-4 cm., 5-nerved, somewhat 

 cordate at the base, acuminate, dentate, scattered-hairy on both sur- 

 faces. Inflorescence in few flowered, slender, short, simple racemes 

 one-half to three cm. long, inserted opposite the upper leaf petioles, the 

 female solitary near the base of the raceme, the male few, terminal; 

 bracts minute, sessile, lanceolate, acute, entire. Male flowers pedicelled; 

 pedicel about equaling the width of the QolyK., pilose, somewhat thick- 

 ened below; calyx 3-parted, lobes ovate, acute, glabrous; stamens 3, 

 filaments turgid-bulbous below; anthers ovate; rudimentary ovary 

 wanting. Female flowers pedicelled; pedicel about one-half the width 

 of the calyx; cdlys. segments 6, ovate, acute; ovary 3-celled, densely 

 acicular-hairy ; style turgid, trifurcate to the middle, the branches tightly 

 recurved at the tips. Capsule densely invested with long, white, acicu- 

 lar hairs; seed globose, 2.3 mm. diameter, yellow, mottled in irregular 

 anastomosing splotches and stippled with minute dots of red-brown. 



Yucatan, in woodlands at Chichankanab, Gaumer 2154 (Type in 

 herb. Field Museum cat. no. 438,347) ; and at San Anselmo, 1931. This 

 species and Tragia nepetaefolia are called P o p o x by the Mayas. 



