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len«'tli : lower part of the style as well as the apex of the ovary strongly 

 hirsute ; ovary 3-celled ; fruit oblong, dark-colored, with slight puberu- 

 lence, tipped with the hardened calyx-teeth. — Hills of Patzcuaro, 

 Michoacau ; November, 1890 (n. 334a). Resembles in many respects 

 S. prionophyUa, Hemsl. (ex char.), but has leaves not at all ovate, 

 and the petals nearly smooth and united with each other and with the 

 stamens for about half their length. In the species just mentioned 

 they are described as nearly or quite free. 



GoxoLOBus PARViFLOKUS, Gray, var. brevicoroxatus. Corolla 

 erect, instead of being reflexed as in the type ; the outer crown of five 

 short rather thick truncate scales, which are not at all produced into 

 lobes at the edges; the inner crown of five horns as in the typical 

 form. — Laredo, Texas; July, 1889 (n. 3029). 



BuDDLEiA Chapalaxa. Suffruticose ; branches with a smooth yel- 

 lowish bark ; branchlets woolly : leaves ovate or ovate-oblong, 1^ to 

 2^ inches long, an inch broad, appearing more or less rhombic in out- 

 line from being contracted at base into a broadly winged petiole, au- 

 riculate-perfoliate, acute, rather coarsely and bluntly toothed, woolly 

 on both sides when young, becoming nearly smooth at maturity and re- 

 taining only a slight mealiness ; floral leaves much smaller, lanceolate, 

 scarcely perfoliate : flowers in globular heads ; the heads half an inch 

 in diameter and borne in pairs on axillary peduncles about 4 lines 

 long; corolla 1\ lines in diameter, short, not or scarcely exceeding the 

 woolly calyx. — On dry cliff's in the mountains near Luke Chapala, 

 Jalisco; December, 1889 (n. 2972). 



CoRDiA Pringlei. A shrub 10 to 15 feet high, belonging to 

 the section Dasycephal(E ; branchlets, peduncles and petioles stellate- 

 tomentose : leaves ovate or ovate-oblong, more or less narrowed to 

 an obtuse apex, often one-sided, all but the smallest abrupt or even 

 subcordate at base, crenate-dentate with irregular teeth, green and 

 finely stellate-pubescent above, lighter and tomentose beneath, 3 inches 

 long, 1 or 2 inches broad ; petioles 6 lines in length : heads globular, 

 an inch in diameter on subterminal peduncles 1^ inches long ; calyx 

 narrowly campanulate, the tube white-pubescent, and the filiform teeth 

 stellately ferruginous-pubescent, curled irregularly, mostly reflexed ; 

 corolla funnel-form, white, 5 lines broad, with obtuse lobes: stamens 

 inserted near the summit of the pubescent throat. — Las Palmas, San 

 Luis Potosi ; June, 1890 (n. 3091). Differs from C. omhigua, Cham. 

 &, Schl., in its larger heads and the abrupt or subcordate bases of the 

 leaves, as well as in the absence of the long spreading hairs on the 

 petioles and peduncles. Mr. Pringle's plant much resembles a speci- 



