50 CONTRIBUTIONS TO WESTERN BOTANY 
Cuphea Watsoni‘n. sp. No, 4616 Pringle, Tequila, 
Jalisco, Mex., Sept 1893, Herb. Univ. Cal. No. 108986. A tall 
slender annual, with long internodes, Stems, upper leaves, and 
inflorescence low-shaggy with abruptly spreading and glandular 
airs. Leaves truncate-ovate to cordate-ovate, 1-2 inches long, 
on a stout petiole 1 mm. long, conspicuously feather-veined below 
and rather abruptly acuminate, very obscurely denticulate: upper 
ones somewhat reduced and lanceolate. Calyx 15 mm. long by 
m. 
petals oblanceolate to linear and 4 mm. long. Growing in fields 
Euphorbia corallifera n, sp. No. 27545, Caynca 
ranch, Sierra Giganta, Oct. 23 1930. This belongs to the Poin- 
settia group, apparently near E. tricolor Greenman. A slender 
little lacerate. Glands round, red, prominent. Appendages ovate 
to rhomboidal, a little erose above, white or tinged with purple, 
nearly half an inch long, spreading, Pods depreased-spherical 
smooth, green, about quarter inch long, immature. Inflore scence 
sometimes compound. This is a very showy bush 6-8 ft, high. 
_ Euphorbia Espirituensis n. sp. No. 27505, Espiri- 
tu Santo island near La Paz, Sept 291930 A straggling and very 
or more rudimentary leaves which are 4-5 mm. long and about 
oval though a little oblique below and rounded above, thick, en- 
tire and smooth, on stout petioles half as long, and with conspicu- 
small. Pods smooth. Seeds oval-ovate, acutish, slightly angled 
8ray, smooth, with a trace of sculpturing on the sides, the shape 
and size nearly that of Preslii. 
ke might pass for Magdalene but appears to be a fair insular 
ies, 
