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Lut seemingly inclined to be wavy on the margins, very much 
rounded at tip and rarely a little retuse, minutely papillose with 
clusters of raised and shining cells which become elongated one 
concentric in the center surrounding aw stout, erect, and taperir 
airs Fruits vellowish to orange-colored, ok on the warts 
oval, apiculate from the stout remains of f th e2-lobed stigma, a lit 
tie suleate between the seeds, 2-celled, 2- seeded, indehiscent, pu- 
bernlent, on stout pedicels their ewn length, spreading, 7 mm, 
ong by 4mm. wide, a Jitile flattened at the sutures. This would 
pass for Colubrina glabra Wat. which is a very variable species 
but the fruit and Dai eke are different 
Dodoneea mld Sorte sis n. sp. N 0. 21087. The putes a 
guna mts.,Sept 24 1930, A slender yaar 6-8 ft. bigh. Lea b- 
long-lanceolate, spiculate, entire, 3 inches long, nearly an ee 
mide, finely feather-veined, tapering into a short and mar gined 
petiole 6 mm. long vshining and appearing as if waxy,very minutely 
pubescent, clustered at the ends of the branches, Clusters of 
fruit almost sessile. Pedrncles nearly Ls cem.long, filiform. Fruit 
deeply emarginate above and below, lem. hig A, about 1.5 em. 
wide, smooth, eet few in the obnaters This belongs in the 
chess ino grou 
Vi y pestnaninvls n.sp. No. 27159. Laguna mts., 
Sept 22 1930, 650U ft. alt., growing high on Pinus cembroides. 
Leaves cordate. ovate-acuminate, about 3 inches long. smooth a- 
black nearly 1 em. wide, fruiting copiously. Tendrils stout, pet- 
ioles about an inch long. leaves regalarly low-serrate and with 
teeth ending in sharp prickles { mm, high and callused, 
Condalia Parryi Gray has chrome-yellow fruits 1.5m. lon by 1 
cm, wide, round and smooth in cross-section, elliptical, rather 
acute at both ends, eianratad: apiculate at tip, the pulp of ped 
1-2 mm. thick, sweetish and a little bitter, seperating readily from 
the ponte seeds which are chocolate colored and obliquely beaked 
at both ends and a little flattened and with traces of two pune 
lines ay the sides, the walls are very bony and. hard and 2-2.5m 
thick and “reddish, with 2-3 seeds in each cell, which seeds are rou <a 
‘The pedicels are about % inch Jong and mostly single in fruit. The 
fruits fall quickly at maturity. The bushes are 6-8 ft. high usu- 
ally and much branched an gre 
Abutilon Haxratice n. sp. No. 27162 La Barranca. 
Guadalajara, Nov. 19 1930. A sani shrub 3-6 ft. high with 
nearly simple stems ending in a narr nicle. Stems sho nde 
pan 
pubescent with rather long stellate hates from a pustulate base an 
inclined to be glandular on the eno pages Leaves many, " 
inches long, 7-nerved, ovate-acuminate to ovate-lanceolate-acu- 
wh doo somewhat cordate bioaes on stout petioles an inch long, 
ith nerves raised below, softly pubescent below with long-rayed 
