158 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY 



petiolate : pedicels umbellately clustered, 2 to 4 lines long : drupes 

 narrowly oblong, curved, rounded at base, 3 to 5 lines long. — Hills 

 near Guadalajara; May, 1889, in fruit only (n. 3021). Near F. pu- 

 bescens, but with thicker and more tomentose entire leaves and with 

 longer and more oblong curved drupes. 



FoRESTiERA RACEMOSA. A tall evergreen shrub or small tree 

 (10 to 20 feet high), forming clumps: leaves rather thin, ovate to 

 lanceolate, acute or short-acuminate, acutish at base, entire or serru- 

 late, puberulent above and thinly tomentose beneath or glabrate, 

 9 lines to 2 inches long, on slender petioles 2 or 3 lines long : flowers 

 pedicelled, opposite in very short racemes (the fertile racemes about 

 6 lines long in fruit) ; calyx of pistillate flowers minute, persistent : 

 fruit globose, 2 to 2^ lines in diameter ; putamen smooth. — At the 

 base of the Sierra Madre near Monterey; August, 1889 (n. 2394). 



Metastelma jiultiflorum. Glabrous or nearly so (the petioles 

 and inflorescence somewhat pubescent) : leaves linear to linear-lance- 

 olate, acuminate, obtusish at base, shortly petiolate, 6 to 10 lines long 

 or usually less, much reduced on the branches : flowers clustered in 

 most of the axils, a line long, the pedicels mostly shorter than the 

 calyx: calyx-lobes short, acute; corolla greenish white or tinged 

 ■with purple, the oblong acute lobes puberulent within : column as 

 long as the anthers ; lobes of the crown inserted at the base of the 

 anthers, linear-lanceolate, exceeding the stigma. — Twining over 

 shrubs in ravines near Guadalajara; November, 1888 (n. 1776). 

 Allied to 3f. Schaffaeri and M. angiisti folium. 



Marsdenia Pringlei. Somewhat puberulent : leaves nearly 

 glabrous, oblong-ovate, acute or abruptly short-acuminate, obtuse at 

 base, 2 to 4 inches long, on petioles 6 to 12 lines long: peduncles a 

 little shorter than the petioles, few-many-flowered, the pedicels 1 to 3 

 lines long : sepals ovate ; corolla white, 3 or 4 lines long, cleft to 

 below the middle, glabrous : divisions of the crown distinct, tipped 

 with a broad triangular appendage slightly exceeding the broad obtuse 

 and entire tip of the anther: stigma terminated by a long-exserted 

 attenuate beak, bifid at the apex, 2 lines long: fruit unknown. — In 

 the Sierra de la Silla, near Monterey; June, 1889 (n. 2531). 



Ompiialodes Mexicana. Stems procumbent, from a perennial 

 branching rootstock ; canescent throughout with fine spreading pubes- 

 cence : leaves ovate, acute, subtruucate or subcordate at base, 3 to 8 

 lines long, shorter than the petioles ; floral bracts more or less cuneate 

 at base and mostly sessile: pedicels elongated (6 to 12 lines), in 

 long terminal racemes: corolla white (3 lines broad), with very 



