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The specimens which served as the type of Gray’s description 
of A. Schiedeana (palmatifida)* were gathered by Charles Wright 
in northern Sonora. The same species was subsequently recorded 
from Arizona.t As might have been expected from the geo- 
graphical distribution, it is not conspecific with Kuryanthe 
Schiedeana (Vera Cruz), a co-type of which is preserved in the 
Botanical Department of the British Museum. Mature seeds 
of E. Schiedeana are unfortunately not known, but the shape 
of the leaf-segments seems to indicate a relationship with 
A. Wrightii. 
The identification of Wright’s Sonora specimens with 
A. palmatifida, Moc. et Sessé, appears to be better founded. 
Mocifio and Sessé’s drawing is not very characteristic, but the 
shape of the leaf-segments of the right-hand leaf lends support 
to Gray’s identification. Moreover, A. P. De Candolle cited 
under A. palmatifidat a specimen from the Herbarium of Ruiz 
and Pavon, then in Lambert’s. Herbarium and now at the British 
Museum ;$ and this specimen matches Thurber’s No. 708, and 
Wright’s No. 916, both from Sonora, the latter being the type 
of Gray’s palmatifida. 
Seven species of Amoreuxia may accordingly be recognised : 
A, palmatifida, Moc. et Sessé, A. Schiedeana (Cham. et Schlecht.), 
A. Wrightit, A. Gray, A. malvaefolia, A. Gray, A. unipora, Van 
Tiegh., and two new ones, A. colombiana, from Ibagué, Colombia, 
and A. Gonzalez, from northern Sinaloa. Additional species 
may possibly be represented by specimens collected by Palmer 
(No. 176) at Guaymas, Sonora, and by Rose (No. 1624) between 
Rosario and Colomas, Sinaloa. These were distributed as 
Amoreuxia palmatifida, but differ from that species in the shape 
of the leaf-segments. It seems undesirable to describe them 
as new species, however, until the capsules and seeds are known. 
Amoreuxia, Moc. et Sessé ex DC. in DC. Prodr. ii. p. 638 
(1825); Endl. Gen. p. 1250 (1840); Planch. in Hook. Lond. 
Journ. Bot. vi. p. 140, t. 1. (1847); Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc., 
Bot. v. Suppl. 2, p. 79 (1861); Triana et Planch. in Ann. Sc. 
Nat. sér. 4. xvii. p. 92 (1862) ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. 
p. 124 (1862); Baillon in Adansonia, x. p. 259 (1872); Dict. 
Bot. i. p. 152 (1876); Warb. in Engl. et Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iii. 
6, p. 313 (1895); A. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. Am. ed. Robinson, i. 
part rie 206 (1895); Van Tiegh. in Journ: de Bot. 1900, 
xiv. 
hain Cham. et Schlecht. in Linnaea, v. p. 224 (1830). 
Cochlospermum, Baillon, Hist. Pl. iv. pp. 289, 321 (1873), 
pro parte. 
Low undershrubs. Stems erect, simple or slightly —_— 
1-5-4 dm. high, arising from a stout, tuberous or woody ro 
* Pl. Wright. ii. p. . (1853). 
} A. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. Am. ed. Robinson, i, part 1, p. 207 (1895). 
ips 638 (1825). 
§ Hist. Coll. ‘Nat. Hist. Dep Brit. Mus. i. pp 161, 178 (1904). 
