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that were received from Prof. A. Duges, as collected by Prof. Jose 

 Ramirez on the banks of the Alamos River in Sonora, closely resem- 

 ble Mr. Pringle's specimens excepting that the spikes are all bisexual, 

 the staminate bracts 4-5 flowered, and the stamens 2 or 3. The 

 few loose seeds which accompanied these specimens show, however, 

 no caruncle, though otherwise like those of Dr. Palmer. It is prob- 

 able that this is a third species of the same genus, and that too much 

 weight has been given to the presence of a caruncle as a generic 

 character. Tlie fruit of the Sonora plant is said by Ramiiez to be 

 that in which the Garpocapsa saltdans is found ; and this is certainly 

 true of Dr. Palmer's species. Doubtless the "jimiping beans" are 

 the product of more than one of these nearly allit'd shrubs. The 

 fruit of Sehastiania bilocularis is found to be attacked by a similar 

 insect, though of a diflferent genus, which has been named by Mr. 

 C. V. Riley Grapholitha SebastianicB. The capsules which Dr. Palmer 

 collected, like those of the other collections, have the cocci dehiscing 

 nearly to the base, and the rather thin valves become more or less 

 contorted. In fruit occupied by the Carpocapsa, such as I have seen, 

 the cocci remain closed, but the walls are chartaceous and complete 

 dehiscence is readily effected. 



Ficus (Urostigma) .Jaliscana. Young branches, buds and peti- 

 oles pubescent : leaves coriaceous, round-cordate with broad more or 

 less overlapping basal lobes, acute, 3-5-nerved at base, 3 to 4^ inches 

 long, on petioles nearly as long, soon glabrate above and smooth though 

 minutely puncticulate, more puberulent beneath, especially on the 

 nerves : fruit in pairs, on stout pedicels 2 or 3 lines long, globose, 

 densely tomeutose, 4 or 5 lines broad, subtended by a broad somewhat 

 3-lobed involucre ; fertile flowers pedicellate, with unequal sepals, one 

 cucullate, the others shorter, broad and concave, the style rather short 

 and stigma subcapitate ; abortive pistillate flowers similar but smaller 

 and sessile, the style elongated and stigma bifid ; staminate flowers not 

 found : orifice of the receptacle closed within by several rows of rigid 

 closely imbricated broad bracts. — On cliffs near Guadalajara; Decem- 

 ber, 1889 (n. 2932). 



Ficus (Uuostioma) Pringi-rt. Young branches and petioles 

 densely pubescent with spreading hairs : leaves ovate, 3-nerved and 

 slightly cordate at base, obtuse or acutish, 2 to 4 inches long by 

 1.^ to 3 broad, on stout petioles 2 to 4 linos long, very rough above 

 with fine hispidulous reticulations and prominently puncticulate, pu- 

 be.scent and strongly reticulated beneath: fruit sessile in pairs in the 

 axils, involucrate with two opposite orbicular silky-pubescent bracts, 



