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cymulis vulgatim 2-3-floris breviter pedicellatis bracteolis linearibus 

 suffultis ; calyce anguste campanulato basi turbinato, tubo griseo 

 arachnoicleo, lobis 4 lanceolato-linearibus deflexis inodice inaequalibus 

 tubum subaequantibus glabriusculis ; corolla coccinea, tubo gracili 

 subcylindrico sursurn paulo aropliato basin versus glabriusculo supra 

 cum limbo patente plus minusve arachnoideo ca. 17 cm. longo, lobis 

 4 orbicularibus ca. 3 mm. diametro tenuiter margine crispulis ; ore 

 nudo ; staminibus 4 in ore affixis paulo exsertis, antberis lineari- 

 oblongis ; capsula subglobosa ca. 4 mm. diametro septicidalr, valvis 

 bifidis. — Mexico : Chicharras, Chiapas, alt. 920-1840 m., E. W. Kel- 

 son, no. 3755 (type material in U. S. Nat. Mus. and Gray Herb.). 

 This plant possesses so precisely the habit and -most of the technical 

 features of a Rondeletia that it seems best to refer it to this genus, 

 though it will form an exception among the known species in the fact 

 that its fruit is septicidal. 



Hymenodictyon floribundum (Hochst. & Steud.), n. comb. 

 Kurria jloribunda Hochst. & Steud. Flora, xxiv. pt. 1, Intell. 28 

 (1841), name only ; ibid. xxv. 234 (1842), with description. Hymeno- 

 dictyon Kv/rria Hochst. Flora, xxvi. 71 (1843). 



Bouvardia gracilipes, n. sp., fruticosa ; ramis gracilibus teretibus 

 cortice griseo tectis glabris, ramulis valde compressis, internodiis lon- 

 giusculis glabris, nodis stipulisque puberulis ; foliis oppositis breviter 

 petiolatis tenuibus ovatis acuminatis basi rotundatis 5-7 cm. longis 

 2-3.5 cm. latis supra laete viridibus glabris subtus pallidioribus in 

 costa venisque obscure puberulis ; petiolo 2 mm. longo sordide tomen- 

 tello ; ocreis pallidis ca. 1 mm. longis marginem versus tomentellis 

 cum appendicibus filiformibus breviter pubescentibus ca. 2 mm. longis 

 munitis ; inflorescentiis terminalibus laxis 8-12-floris glabris ; pedun- 

 culis 2-4 cm. longis trichotomis, bracteis linearibus 1-3 mm. longis, 

 ramulis lateralibus 3-4 cm. longis vicissim trichotomis ; pedicellis fili- 

 formibus 1.5-2 cm. longis apice denique uncinatis ; calycis dentibus 

 4 linearibus 1 mm. longis erectis in fructu inflexis persistentibus ; 

 corolla non visa ; fructu 6 mm. lato 4.5 mm. alto pallide viridi sub 

 lente albido-lineato quasi strigilloso. — Mexico : Tepic, 5 January to 

 6 February, 1892, Dr. E. Palmer, no. 1971 (type, in Gray Herb.). 

 Although this species is described from fruiting material and without 

 knowledge of the corolla, it is believed that the unusually loose inflor- 

 escence with filiform at length hooked pedicels yields characters suffi- 

 ciently distinctive for ready recognition. 



Bouvardia longiflora (Cav.) HBK., var. induta, n. var., foliis 

 ovato-rhomboideis acutis supra scabriusculo-puberulis subtus tomen- 

 tosis ; corolla extus tomentella. — Mexico : " Chiapas, etc." Dr. 



