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Beenardia yiridis, sp. nov. An upright, irregularly 

 branching shrub; branches glabrous below, sparingly stel- 

 late pubescent toward the ends; leaves thick, oblong to 

 nearly ovate, obtuse, somewhat cuneate at the base, olive- 

 green above, paler beneath, and reticulate veined; margin 

 repandly dentate, the midrib and veins beneath densely 

 woolly with a stellate-pubescence that is distinctly separate 

 upon the parenchyma above and below; petioles of the full- 

 grown leaves fall one-quarter the length of the blade; inflo- 

 rescence dioecious, the staminate flowers sessile in very short 

 2-6-flowered clusters or racemes; calyx 3-parted: pistillate 

 flowers, terminal, sessile; capsule densely stellate-pubes- 

 cent; seed oval, straw-color, smooth, plainly carinate. 



Branches 8 cm. to 2 J dm. long; leaves 2-3 cm. long, J-2J 

 cm. broad; capsules 12 mm. in its longitudinal diameter; 

 seeds 7 mm. long, 5 mm. broad. — San Pablo, April 22d. 



Tkagia (§ Eutragia) urtic^folia Michx. (Flor. Bor. 

 Amer., vol. ii, p. 176.) — Very chare teristic specimens from 

 San Esteban, April 18th. 



Jatropha (§ CuRCAs) CANESCENS Miill. (DC. Prod., xv., 

 pars. 2, p. 1079.) — Specimens in flower^ with the fruit of 

 the previous season, at Magdalena Island, January 12th. 



Jatropha (§§ Mozinna) spathulata Mlill., var. sessili- 

 FLORA Mlill. (DC. Prod, xv, pars. 2, p. 1082). A form with 

 smaller leaves, and more or less paniculate inflorescence. — 

 San Gregorio, February 2d. 



Stillingia (§ Gymnostillingia Watson, vide infra.) lin- 

 EARIFOLIA AYatson. (Proc. Am. Acad., vol. xiv, p. 297.) 

 Beautiful specimens, in fine flowering and fruiting condition, 

 from Cardon Grande, April 23d. 



Sebastiania (?) BiLOCULARis Watsou. (Proc. Am. Acad., 

 vol. XX, p. 374.) Our specimens agree with the description 

 of this unsettled species except in the leaves; those of the 

 description being "linear oblong or narrowly lanceolate 



