78 NORTH AMERICAN FAUNA. 



The following report must be regarded as a preliminary one. The 

 specimens upon which it is based are simply those in fruit or flower at 

 the close of the dry season, a considerable number of which have not 

 been determined specifically and a few not even geuerically. As will 

 be seen from the list below, mostly trees and shrubs were collected, 

 while the herbs, which spring up in great variety during the rainy 

 season, are scarcely represented. 



The Gamopetahe and Apetahu have been named by Mr. J. M. Green- 

 man, Graminea} by Prof. F. Lamson-Scribner, and Filices by George E. 

 Davenport. 



The following new species and varieties are based on this collection: 



jEgiphila pacifica Greeuinan. Kuphorlna sulcarnlea tresmario- Millsp. 



Beloperone nelsoni Greemnan. (iiUbertia Insularly Rose. 



UIIXHS pubes'cens Greenman. J'ilocarpus Insularis Rose. 



Cordia insularis Greenman. Trnixtrti'iiiia maltbya Rose. 



Erythritta Janata Rose. Zanthosylum innularin Rose. 



Euphorbia nelsoni Millspangli. Zanthoxylum n than I Rose. 



ANNOTATED LIST OF SPECIES. 



Cissatupelos pareira L. 



Common in Mexico and other tropical countries. May <"> to 25 (Nos. 

 4233 and 4262). 



Argemoiie ochroleuca .Sweet. 



Widely distributed throughout Mexico. Maria Magdalena Island, 

 May 26 to 28, 1897 (No. 4318). 



Capparis cyiiophallophora L. 



Found along the coast of Mexico, South America, and the West 

 Indies. May 3 to 25 (No. 4302). 

 Capparis breynia L. 



Common in Mexico, South America, and the West Indies. May 3 

 to 25 (No. 4219). 



Crataeva tapia L. f 



Perhaps this is the species which has been reported from Acapulco 

 and Mazatlan. May 3 to 25 (No. 4274.) 



Ternstrcemia maltbya Rose, sp. nov. 



Tree 3 to 9 meters high; leaves obovate, entire, obtuse, glabrous, 

 thickish, not black-punctate beneath, 5 to 10 cm. long; flowers solitary; 

 peduncles 2.5 to 3.5 cm. long becoming curved, bracteate a short dis- 

 tance below the calyx; sepals 5, orbicular, 8 to 10 mm. in diameter; 

 petals united at base, acute; stamens numerous; fruit (immature) ovate, 

 20 mm. long, two-celled; seeds red. 



This species is in all probability Seemau's No. 2148, collected on 

 the road from Ma/atlan to Dnrango and enumerated in the Biologia 

 Centrali-Ainericana without specific name. 



