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anthers 3-celled : ovary pubescent ; fruit 3 lines broad, on very slender 

 pedicels 4 lines long. — Same locality (179, 180). 



Triumfetta Galeottiana, Turcz. ? Sufirutescent, with slender 

 branches, finely stellate-pubescent : leaves finely pubescent, whiter and 

 more tomentose beneath, ovate or the upper lanceolate, narrowly acu- 

 minate, very unequally toothed, the larger slightly 34obed, rounded or 

 subcordate at base, 1 or 2 inches long : flowers on short axillary pedun- 

 cles and in a terminal raceme ; sepals 2 to 4 lines long, finely pubes- 

 cent, with slender appendages ; petals narrowly oblanceolate : stamens 

 20 : ovary 3-celled, nearly equalling the petals. — Same locality (23). 

 Nearly accordant with the description of T. Galeottiana, which how- 

 ever is said to be apetalous. 



Heliocarpus Palmeri. a shrub, 8 to 10 feet high, the branch- 

 lets, petioles, and inflorescence covered with a very short substellate 

 tomentum : leaves thinly stellate-pubescent beneath, stellate-puberu- 

 lent above, round-ovate to broadly lanceolate, acuminate, cordate or 

 truncate at base, unequally and bluntly serrate, 3 to 6 inches long by 

 2 to 4 inches broad, on petioles 1 or 2 inches long: panicle leafy, 

 diffuse, 4 to 6 inches long, the peduncles and pedicels very short: 

 sepals 5, appendaged near the apex, densely puberulent, about 2 lines 

 long : stamens 20 : fruit densely stellate-pubescent, with a dense fringe 

 of plumose hairs, less than a line broad. — Hacienda San Miguel 

 (97, 191). 



Heliocarpus attenuatus. A shrub, 8 feet high, the branches 

 and petioles softly pubescent : leaves stellate-pubescent beneath, the 

 pubescence above somewhat thinner and shorter, ovate-lanceolate, 

 narrowly attenuate above, cordate or rounded at base, bluntly serrate, 

 occasionally slightly 3-lobed, 2 to 4 inches long by | to U wide : pan- 

 icle short, diffuse, with short lax branches, the slender peduncles and 

 pedicels 2 to 4 lines long: flowers greenish yellow ; calyx finely tomen- 

 tose, 2 or 2| lines long, the 4 or 5 sepals appendaged; petals linear, 

 less than a line long: stamens 16 : style 2-cleft ; fruit pale pink, rugose 

 and tomentose, the fringe \\ lines broad. — Same locality (99). 



Heliocarpus polyandrus. A diffusely spreading bush, 10 feet 

 high ; branches and petioles very finely puberulent : leaves thin, nearly 

 glabrous, somewhat scabrous on the veins, ovate, narrowly acuminate, 

 cordate at base, obtusely serrate, 3 to 5 inches long by 2 or 3 broad, 

 on slender petioles 1 or 2 inches long : panicle naked, rough-puberulent, 

 diffuse with straight spreading branches ; peduncles and pedicels short: 

 sepals 5, appendaged, 2 lines long ; petals a little shorter, yellow, linear: 

 stamens about 40: fruit unknown. — Same locality (100). 



