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can be stuck througli the tree unless at first the harder 

 wood of the reticuLited frame work is struck. The flowers, 

 like those of the other species of the genus, grow from the 

 top, and must be quite handsome; they are said to have a 

 decided yellow tinge and to appear soon after the fall rains. 

 The old capsules are 8-10 mm. long, sessile in a panicle, 

 about 10 inches long. The leaves, as noticed by Dr. Eng- 

 elmann concerning those of F. splendens, Bot. Gazette, Yol. 

 VIIT, 338, afford fine examples of the morphology of spines. 

 The common name of the tree is "cirio," called so by the 

 inhabitants on account of its fancied resemblance to the 

 torch of the altar of their Church. 



Bergia Texana Seubert. — Comondu. 



Malva BOREA.LIS Wall. — Comondu. 



Ma.lv ASTRUM TRICUSPID ATUM Gray. — Comondu, Purisima. 

 Malvastrum, sp. Too young. — San Gregorio. 

 Anoda hastata Cav. — Common in Comondu Canon. 



Anoda crenatiflora Ort. ? Radiate summit of fruit 

 pubescent: cusps short: carpels 8-10, with mid-rib separ- 

 ating for the upper two-thirds: septum represented only 

 by slender threads attached near the apex of the carpel 

 and to the base of the column: clathrate covering of the 

 seed purplish brown, white powdery, loose, cleft at the apex: 

 seed pubescent with very fine hairs: petals 4 lines long, pale 

 yellow, crenate. 



As there is much uncertainty concerning the species 

 of Ortega, it seems best not to give this plant another 

 name, especially as it is near A. pavviflora, to which 

 the general resemblance is quite strong. — Steep slopes of 

 Comondu Canon. 



Anoda pentaschista Gray. Plants slender, flowers small 

 and leaves mostly narrowly linear. — Purisima, Comondu. 



