1328 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM 



EXCLUDED SPECIES. 

 KoHLERiA SAXicoLA T. S. Brandeg. Univ. Calif. Pub. Bot. 6: 66. 1914. 

 According to Brandegee ' this is Diastema rupestre T. S. Brandeg. 



2. SOLENOPHORA Benth. PI. Hartw. 68. 1840. 



A single species is known. 

 1. Solenophora coccinea Benth. PI. Hartw. 68. 1840. 



Type from mountains of Chinantla, Oaxaca. 



Shrub, 1 to 2 meters high, the branches minutely puberulent; leaves opposite, 

 petiolate, ovate, 15 to 20 cm. long, acuminate, narrowed and oblique at base, 

 duplicate-serrate; pedicels axillary, solitary, 7.5 to 10 cm. long; flowers scarlet, 

 about 6 cm. long; calyx adnate to the ovary below, the lobes narrowly lanceolate, 

 denticulate; corolla glabrous, the lobes fimbriate-crenate; capsule 5-angulate. 



3. HIPPODAMIA Decaisne, Rev. Hort. III. 2: 464. 1848. 



Plants suffrutescent; leaves opposite, large; flowers orange or whitish, umbel- 

 late; calyx adnate to the ovary below, the lobes short and broad; corolla pubes- 

 cent, the tube elongate, the lobes laciniate. 



Corolla whitish. Umbels sessile or nearly so 1. H. obscura. 



Corolla orange. 



Umbels subsessile 2. H. endlicheriana. 



Umbels pedunculate 3. H. insignis. 



1. Hippodamia obscura (Hanst.) Fritsch in Engl. & Prantl, Pfianzenfam. 4^^. 



183. 1894. 

 Solenophora obscura Hanst. Linnaea 34: 315. 1865-66. 

 Type from Chinantla, Oaxaca. 



Stems hirtous; leaves serrate, sparsely scaberulous; pedicels shorter than the 

 calyx, the latter villous, the lobes acute, serrate. 



2. Hippodamia endlicheriana (Heller) Fritsch in Engl. & Prantl, Pfianzenfam. 



431': 183. 1894. 

 Arctocalyx endlicherianus Heller; Fenzl in Otto & Dietr. Allg. Gartenz. 16: 



307. 1848. 

 Solenophora endlicheriana Hanst. Linnaea 34: 314. 1865-66. 

 Type from Mirador, Veracruz. 



Stems suffrutescent, long-hirsute; leaves long-petiolate, broadly elliptic, 45 cm. 

 long or less, acuminate, duplicate-serrate, long-hirsute; pedicels equaling or 

 shorter than the calyx; calyx inflated, hirsute, the lobes rounded-ovate, crenulate; 

 corolla 6.5 to 7.5 cm. long, hirsute. 



3. Hippodamia insignis (Mart. & Gal.) Decaisne, Rev. Hort. 1848: 464. 



1848. 



Besleria insignis Mart. & Gal. Bull. Acad. Brux. 9-: 37. 1842. 



Solenophora insignis Hanst. Linnaea 34: 314. 1865-66. 



Type from mountains of Oaxaca, altitude 1,200 meters. Costa Rica. 



Stems hirsute; leaves obliquely ovate-lanceolate or elliptic, acuminate, dupli- 

 cate-serrate, short-hirsute above, pubescent beneath along the veins but else- 

 where glabrous; pedicels as long as the calyx; calyx hirsute, the lobes rounded- 

 ovate, serrulate; corolla sparsely hirsute. 



4. BESLERIA L. Sp. PI. 619. 1753. 

 Plants suffrutescent; leaves opposite, thin; inflorescence axillary, the flowers 

 usually yellow; calyx inferior, campanulate or inflated, shallowly or deeply 



1 Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 6: 193. 1915. 



