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slender petioles half as long, rather doubly low-serrate, much lighter-col- 

 ored below, rather scanty. Panicle leafy throughout the main bfdhcheis, 

 which are mostly racemosely compound and with smaller leaf-like bracts- 

 Flowers nearly sessile, the calyx globose-ovate, ahout 5 mm. long, densely 

 hoary as are the leaves, and with apprtssed lobes ovate and acute and 

 with raised margins and midnerve malcing ^c calyx very strongly 



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run 



the 



sinuses. Petals apparently yellowish but not developing or vespert 

 Carpels half as long as calyx, about 3 mm. long by 2 mm. wide, h: 

 reniform, triquetrous in cross-section, rather flat on die back, and she 

 hairy and rugose. The empty tip thin but not produced much. Tlie sir 

 seed triquetrous, chestnut-colored, smooth and hard. No 22858, Acapoit 



near to S. cordifolia L. but sufficiently distinct. 



March 1. This appears 



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Kosteletzkia'bracteosa N: Sp. 'Slender shrub, 6-8 feet high and 

 widely branched. -Leaves thin, 1-2 inches long, tnangular-oyate, acumi' 

 nate, sharply serrate, truncate to cunate belo\v, not Jobed, sparsely stel- 

 late-hairy below, on a petiole about 1 cm. long* Flowers single in the 

 axils of the upper leaves, on long peduncles about twice as long as the 

 leaves; Bracts about 8, linear, nearly an inch long, green, ascending, 

 equaling the petals,-" which are dark-purpTe, and which surpars the .^a 

 mens. Fruit globcse, hispid above, with single long-hairy secd.^. San 

 Bias, Sinaloa, February 1, 1927. No. 22863. 



Lopezia globosa N. Sp. Slender and erect annuals, widely and openly 

 paniculate and with very slender stems rscemosely and ^atteringly flowerc i 

 above with a single flower in the axil of each leaf. Leaves elliptical tn 

 ovate, inclined to be erose on the margin and when young sparsely stri* 

 gose-hairy, as are the younger parts, thin, 1-2 cm. long, acutish, on peti- 

 oles 2-3 mm. long. Pedicels capillaiy, widely spreading, about 2 <:m. 

 long. Flowers in bud about S mm. long and broadly linear, dark-purple 

 and smooth, with ovary globose and constricted" at very tip: Calyx split 

 nearly to the base, and with the 4 lobes equal and widely spreading \\x 

 anthesis, falling entire at maturity. Abortive stam'en appearing stiff, 

 white below and pink above, half-obovate-arcurate, on a short stalk 

 and often with a green spot on the inner upper comer, about 2 mm 

 lone. Petals 4, one of them longer and rather oval in outline, crumpled 

 or erose on the margin, white, on a long stalk, the other three petals pur- 

 plish, with much the same shape but laciniate. Anther on the perfect 

 stamen linear-arcuate and acute. Petals nearly twice as long as tlie 



.•^pals. Pods globose, about 3 nwn. J 

 *:e.firment5. This species appears nea 

 differs in Ac Semeneiandroid capsule. 

 No. 23299. . : ^ - 



LcM>ezia laciniata (Rose), Pelozia 



but 



Rose 



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As to Rose's Pseudolopezia I am not prepared to say, but I think 



