188 SAFFORD: DESMOPSIS, A NEW GENUS 
Herbarium Delessert, collected at Jalapa, altitude 2000 feet, by 
Galeotti (Nos. 4066 and 7083). 
DIsTRIBUTION: Known only from the tierra templada of the 
state of Vera Cruz, Mexico. 
SPECIMEN EXAMINED: 
Mexico: Near Orizaba, 1500 feet, July, Dr. C. Sartorius, in 
United States National Herbarium, Sheet No. 2571; and the fol- 
lowing sheets belonging to the Copenhagen Herbarium: Palanque, 
Liebmann 7 (type, as cited, with duplicate bearing the same data); 
Colipa, Liebmann 5, 6, 9; Mirador, Liebmann 4, 19; between 
Mirador and Jalapa, Liebmann I; San Pablo, Liebmann tro. 
For the opportnnity of examining the Liebmann material I am 
indebted to Dr. C. H. Ostenfeld, Director of the Copenhagen 
Herbarium. Since specimens from several localities are cited by 
Baillon in the original description of this species, and it is possible 
that differences may subsequently be found between plants grow- 
ing remote from one another, it becomes necessary to designate 
one specimen as the type. I have therefore selected as the type 
Liebmann’s No. 7 (sheet No. 153), including leaves, flowers, and 
mature fruit, since this number represents the species more com 
pletely than any of the others. This speciman therefore becomes 
the type of Desmopsis Galeottiana; and Palanque, near Colipa, im 
the state of Vera Cruz, Mexico, must be designated as its type 
locality. 
3- Desmopsis Maxonii sp. nov. 
A small tree 5-7 m. high. Branches slender, brown with 
numerous lenticels; young growth clothed with appressed pale 
fulvous hairs. Leaves broadly elliptical to elliptical-oblong oF 
lanceolate acuminate, narrowed at the base into the short petiole, 
the smaller ones about 10 cm. long and 3.8 cm. broad, gradually 
acuminate, the larger ones 12-14 cm. long and 6-8 cm. broad; 
abruptly acuminate, with the petiole about 5 mm. long, relatively 
thick and grooved above, with the acute base of the blade decur- 
rent upon it, glabrous above, covered beneath when young with 
pale fulvous silky hairs, at length quite glabrous. Flowers straw- 
colored, or pale yellow, fragrant with the odor of banana; peduncle _ | 
714mm. long, opposite a leaf, or apparently terminating a branch- 
let, normally bearing at the summit a suborbicular or broadly — 
ovate clasping leaf-like bract 7-15 mm. broad and (in the specimens 
