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to the base, into oblong blunt shortly 2-cleft lobes : corolla slightly ex- 

 serted, the narrow galea pilose, the somewhat cleft saccate lower lip about 

 1 mm. long. — Hidalgo, damp alpine meadows at 8080 m. altitude, 

 Sierra de Pachuca, July 21, 11)01, and Aug. 22 1902 ((7. G. Pringle, 

 nos. 9674, 866G, Rose S^ Hay, no. 5581) ; Mt. Popocatapetl, alt. 

 3G30 m., Aug. 7 and 8, 1901 {Rose Sf Hay, no. 6022). A beautiful 

 plant somewhat resembling C. Schaffneri, but with shorter stems, much 

 larger red flowers, and densely pilose calyx. 



Utricularia lobata. Scapes 2 to 5 cm. high, bearing 1 or 2 lance- 

 subulate bracts, 1-2-flovvered ; bladder-bearing branches very short, 

 basal or wanting; the scattered bladders barely 1 mm. long: leaves 

 wanting or solitary and radical, narrowly spatulate, 3-nerved, 1 to 1.3 

 cm. long : pedicels at most 1 mm. long, subtended by 3 or 4 slightly 

 longer subulate bracts : calyx of 2 elliptic-oblong lobes 3 to 4 mm. long : 

 corolla violet with yellow centre, the upper lip erect, slightly dilated and 

 subtruncate above, 3 or 4 mm. long ; lower lip 7 to 9 mm. long, deeply 

 3-lobed, the middle lobe broad, more or less cut ; spur subulate, arcuate, 

 equalling or slightly exceeding the lower lip : fruit not seen. — Mexico, 

 springy soil. Sierra de las Cruces, alt. 3080 m., Sept. 2, 1901 (C. G. 

 Pringle, no. 8607). Related to U. resupinata, B. D. Greene, but differ- 

 ing among other characters in its deeply lobed lip. From U. verapazen- 

 sis, Morong, distinguished by its narrower longer leaf, and its much 

 shorter pedicels subtended by subulate, not blunt, bracts. 



Pectis erecta. Perennial, with a slender ligneous caudex : stems 

 erect, simple or branching above, pulverulent, 8 to 15 cm. high : leaves 

 linear, 1.5 to 3 cm. long, 1 to 2 mm. broad, pale green, firm, subulate- 

 tipped, mostly ascending, with 2 to 4 irregular lines of pellucid dots 

 beneath, and with 2 to 5 pairs of whitish cilia at base : peduncles fili- 

 form, erect, 3.5 to 6 cm. long, with 2 to 5 lance-attenuate bracts : heads 

 1 to 1.5 cm. broad, several-flowered ; involucre turbinate, 5 to 6 mm. 

 high, of 5 oblong or narrowly obovate blunt finely ciliate upwardly 

 flattened bracts : rays oblong, 5 to 7 mm. long, yellow becoming 

 crimson : ray-pappus of 2 or 3 elongate (4 or 5 mm. long) dark up- 

 wardly barbed aristiform pales more or less connate at base, with 4 to 

 8 much shorter unequal whitish attenuate pales : disk-pappus similar but 

 the pales more numerous, the elongate dark ones 6 or 8 : achenes 

 slightly setulose. — Nicaragua, Grenada, Department of Grenada, 

 Feb. 28, 1903 (C. F. Baker, no. 2556). In habit resembling Peck's 

 diffusa, Hook. & Arn. of the § Pectothrix, but with the pappus more 

 nearly of P. depressa, Feruald, of the § Eupectis. 



