A474 LEWTON: CIENFUEGOSIA DRUMMONDII 
cotton field belonging to the Coleman-Fulton Pasture Company 
at Taft, Texas. Thisisa rapidly developing town in San Patricio 
County, located on the San Antonio & Aransas Pass Railway 
between Sinton, the county seat, and Gregory, the junction with 
the Rockport branch of the railroad. The first plant found was 
all but buried in the soil, the field having been cultivated a few 
days before. 
This plant was subsequently found to be plentiful at Taft, 
in the fields, where it can escape the agricultural implements, 
around the margins of the irrigating tanks, and along the banks 
of the roadside ditches. Its large sulphur-yellow flowers tinged 
with green make it a conspicuous object when in bloom. 
According to Small* and Heller} this plant is the same as the 
Brazilian plant described by Saint-Hilairet under the name 
Fugosia sulfurea. Another student of this difficult genus, Hoch- 
reutiner, considers the Texan plant a variety of the Brazilian 
species and in an annotated list of the species of the genus§ labels 
it Cienfuegosia sulphurea, var. Drummondii. 
The Brazilian species is evidently quite variable, however, 
and Giirke has described|| under the name of Cienfuegosia sul- 
phurea, var. glabra, a variety which appears to be nearer Gray’s 
Fugosia Drummondti than the typical F. sulfurea. Morong’s 
no. 929, collected in Paraguay in February 1891, when compared 
with the Texas specimen, shows a larger, more erect plant; leaves 
more nearly round; curved and much shorter peduncles, having 
fewer, smaller and narrower involucral bracts and bearing smaller 
flowers, which have a “brown eye at the base inside.” § 
In the opinion of the writer the Texas plant differs from the 
Brazilian Cienfuegosia sulfurea (St. Hil.) Garcke by sufficient 
characters to warrant the restoration of Gray’s specific name. 
These differences might be contrasted as ‘follows: 
*Small, J. K. Flora Southeastern United States og Ue Paes 163 
tHeller, A. A. Contr. Herb. Franklin & ms Coll. no. 1:67. 1895. 
tSaint-Hilaire, A. Flora Brain Meridionalis 1 . pl. 4 1825. 
§Hochreutiner, B. P. G. onserv, et Jard. brig Sie 57. 1902. 
||Giirke, M. Martius, hi “Seacliaee 123: 577. 1892 
—{Morong, T. Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. 7: 60. 1892. 
