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late, conical in the bud, the inner surface glabrous, dark- 

 brown, the outer, excepting the base, densely gray-villous; 

 the tube twice longer than the spreading dextrorsely con- 

 volute lobes : stamens 3-5, distinct; filaments filiform, at- 

 tached to the base of the corolla, twice as long as the 

 anthers which are glabrous and long-apiculate by the 

 produced connective ; the hairy rudiment of a stamen 

 occupies the middle of one lobe between the two cor- 

 responding sinuses: ovary densely villous, 6-celled, 

 6-seeded; style 3-lobed half wa}- to the base, the lobes 

 similar to but much smaller than those of the corolla: 

 fruit slightly pubescent, globose, 15 mm. in diameter; 

 seeds twice as long as broad, rounded and thick on the 

 back, straight and thin on the inner margin, the sides con- 

 cave; embryo half as long as the smooth corneous albu- 

 men ; the subulate radicle half as long as the cot3'-ledons 

 which are sometimes three. 



From the description of Maha Caribiea (DC.) Prodr., 

 viii, 222, this plant appears to be too closely related to it.. 



357. Vallesia DicHOTOMA Ruiz & Pavon. San Jose 

 del Cabo, La Paz, Todos Santos. 



358. Plumeria ACUTiFOEiA Poir.? " Cacaloxochitl " 

 Very nearly agreeing with the descriptions and drawing 

 of this species. The leaves are glandular tipped; the 

 lobes of the corolla are twice longer than the tube ; the 

 mature follicles, 15-20 cm. long, are divergent and re- 

 curyed. This striking tree is twenty feet high, sparingly 

 branched near the top with the branches terminated by 

 large leaves and showy white flowers. Not uncommon 

 from San Jose del Cabo to Triumfo and San Pedro. 



359. Philibertia Pavoni Hemsley. — San Jose del 

 Cabo. 



360. Philibertia linearis, var. heterophylla 

 Gray. — San Jose del Cabo. 



