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nent, lateral veins nearly at right angles. Inflorescence ter- 

 minal, one or few light-pink involucres. Involucre bilabiate, 

 the outer lips sarcous, shorter, composed of 3 lobes; 2 truncate- 

 deltoid, gibbous and uniglandular at the base; the third an evi- 

 dent cohesion of two others into a large, emarginaie, 2-glandu- 

 lar lobe; the inner lip thin, tubular, composed of two divisions; 

 one small, entire; the other cleft into three veined lobes, the cen- 

 tral one 3-lobed at the apex. Style columnar, short-exserted; 

 stigmas three, aristate. Fruit 



Named in commemoration of the Itza^, the ancient sacred peo- 

 ple of the aboriginal Maya's. 



Coastal. On cultivated lands at the port of Silam, March to 

 Jun^(452). Also collected by Sr. \^aldez (<5j) without localit}-. 

 Some of the specimens arrived at this institution full of vitality, 

 and are now growing well in pots. 



Phyllanthus sp. 



Island of Cozumel, 1885 [Gaitmcr, /Oj). This specimen was 

 not included in Professor Hemsley's enumeration of the Cozumel 

 collection. Specimen in Herb. Gray. Harvard, communicated 

 by Prof. Olliver. 



Phyllanthus acu.minatus Vahl. 



A small tree, 10 feet high. Infrequent in the forests about 

 Izamal, Sept. (797). 



Phyllanthus Carolinensis Walt. 



Shady places near Izamal, Feb. (50S in part). 



Phyllanthus nutans Sw. Xkahyuc. Xcaba-xpixtolon. 



Shrubby, 25 feet high. Abundant in brush lands about Iza- 

 mal, Feb. to May (475). Common also at Temax, in fruit. 

 May (685). 



This is the " Phyllanthus, sp." collected on Cozumel in 1885 

 by Dr. Gaumer and noted on page 26. 



RiciNUS COMMUNIS Linn. Higiierilla. Xkoch.* 



Tree-like herb 10 to 20 feet high. Cultivated, and escaped to 

 waste grounds, Izamal (457)- 



Tragia nepetaefolia Cav. Popox. 



Trailing 3 feet. Common everywhere about Izamal, June (731 ). 



CELASTRACE/E. 



Hippocratea celastroides H. B. K. ? Tulubalam. 



Woodlands near Merida {Wildez, 75, j'j'). 



SAPINDACE^. 



Cardiospermum molle H. B K. Huayunak. 



\'me 60 feet, abundant everywhere near Izamal, Jan. to Dec. 



(494V 



♦The Maya name is misspelled on page 27. 



