4 CONTRIBUTIONS TO WESTERN BOTANY 
Parsonsia purpureocalycis n. sp. No. 27148, mia, 
east of Loreto on mesas Oct 17 145), Plants allied to P. micro- 
cephila and ternata apparently, Rather tall and siender, probably 
snrubby below, 3-4 ft. high and erect. Rough-pubescent 
thrvughout to even strigose on the young parts and calyx with 
white and ascending hairs, the larger hara with pustulate base 
surrounded:by a circular row of cells, the raised nerves of the 
Jeuves consist of several parallel cells. Lower leaves lanceolate, 
reastie, about 3 inches lung, entire, acute, penninerved and with 
nerves impressed above and raised below, shining though minute- 
ly roughened, not glandnlar, reduced above. Branches racemose, 
wscending. Flowers rather racemose above, not truly axillary, as- 
veiling on stout pedicels abont 4mm. long. Pods oblong, 1 em. 
long, truncate, paper-walled. Seeds flat, smooth, purple-mottled 
wn about 2 mm, wide, round but truncate to alittle cordate at 
oth ends, Calyx 2 inches long by about 4 mm, wide. not spurred 
below but truncate, a little wider, black-purple exvept at base. 
Ualyx lobes deltoid, very hairy. Petals deep-orange, slightly ex- 
Berted, 
the leaves overlap Leaves cordate-oval .5- 1.5 inch long, very 
obtuse, vsiny, 7-nerved at base, smooth except for strigose hairs on 
the veins and stems. Pods smooth, about 3 inches long by an inch 
wide in the middle, triangular-acuminate at tip, less so below, 
cessile, Flowers absent. Petioles about 1 cm. ong. 
erjania Papilio n. sp. No. 27327, La Barranca, 
Guadalajara, Nov. 19 1930, growing on bushes lik Clemstis does. 
Stems variously angled but not evidently sulcate mor striate but 
white-woolly-pubascent in lines. Leaves innate, of 5 leaflets, 
the laterals almost sessile, the terminal one cuneate into a short 
petiolule, aflets ovate to oval, 1.5-2 inches ‘long, biserrate ra- 
ther deeply and irregularly, shortly and abruptly acuminate, rather 
thick, whit e-woolly below an nearly smooth above, strongly ve- 
nose ou both sides, the terminal one winged on the petiolule. Pe- 
duncles stout, the longert ones 3-5 inches long’ and with a very 
