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high, subterete, green to dark purple, pubescent with spreading or sub- 

 reflexed short fine hairs : leaves lanceolate, 2.5 to G.5 cm. long, 0.3 to 

 1.5 cm. broad, acuminate, acutish, entire, hirtellous-margined, glabrous 

 or with a few scattered hairs on both surfaces, often reflexed : flowers in 

 dense axillary clusters; bracts linear, attenuate: calyx about 1.5 cm. 

 long, equally 5-parted to a little below the middle ; tube 5-angled in 

 cross-section, essentially glabrous, minutely lineolate ; divisions lance- 

 attenuate, keeled, sparingly pubescent on the keel, ciliate-margined : 

 corolla tubular-funnelform, curved, bilabiate, 2.5 to 3 cm. long, crimson, 

 externally pubescent; tube gradually ampliated above, about 2 cm. long; 

 posterior lip suberect, 2-lobed ; anterior lip spreading, 3-lobed : stamens 

 about equalling or sometimes slightly exceeding the upper lip ; filaments 

 below minutely pubescent, above glabrous : ovary glabrous ; style pu- 

 berulent : ovules two in each cell : mature fruit not seen. — Mexico. 

 State of Michoacan : hills near Uruapan, altitude 1675 m., 13 October, 

 1904, C. G. Pringle, no. 8847 (hb. Gr.). 



Although mature fruit of this species has not been seen by the writer, 

 yet on account of the convolute corolla-lobes and other technical char- 

 acters of the flower, as well as the general habit and inflorescence, the 

 plant is confidently placed in the genus Hijgrophila. 



Deppea microphylla, n. sp. A much-branched shrub: stem and 

 brandies covered with a grayish bark ; wood reddish ; the ultimate branch- 

 lets puberulent : leaves somewhat elliptic to oblanceolate or subspatulate, 

 including the petiole 6 to 15 mm. long, 2.5 to 5 mm. broad, obtuse, en- 

 tire, dark green above, paler beneath, glabrous on both surfaces or with 

 a few scattered crisp hairs on the upper surface in the very early stages, 

 narrowed below into a puberulent petiole: inflorescence terminal and 

 axillary ; peduncles 1-2-flowered, usually unibracteate, 6 mm. or less in 

 length; pedicels slender, 2 to 5 mm. long: calyx turbinate or obconical, 

 5-lobed, glabrous; lobes linear-oblong, 1 to 1.5 mm. long, obtusish, about 

 as long as the adnate tube, persistent: corolla rotate, yellow; tube 

 1.5 mm. long ; lobes oblong, 6 mm. long, 2.5 mm. broad, rounded or ob- 

 tusish at the apex : stamens exserted : fruit an obconical capsule, 2 to 

 3 mm. long, longitudinally ribbed, loculicidally dehiscent and the two 

 halves later separating along the septa: seeds small, angled. — Mexico. 

 State of Hidalgo: river bluffs below Trinidad Iron works, altitude 

 1735 m., 2G April, 1904, C. G. PrivgJe, no. 8907 (hb. Gr.). A very 

 distinct species and readily separated from all the hitherto known 

 members of the genus by the small leaves and few flowers. 



Galium pendulum, n. sp. Stems slender, 1 to 2.5 m. in length, 



