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strongly pubescent beneath, and sparingly above, with as- 
cending tuberculate hairs; petiole two-thirds as long as the 
blade, densely covered with reflexed hairs: peduncles two to 
four inches long, sparingly appressed-pubescent, bearing two 
to four large flowers: calyx about an inch long; sepals ovate- 
lanceolate, the outer much larger than the inner: corolla rose- 
purple, three to three and one-half inches high, three to four 
inches broad when expanded: style exceeding the unequal 
stamens and reaching nearly to the throat of the corolla.— 
Collected near Zopelote, Tepic, at 2,000 feet altitude, by Mr. 
Lamb, February 10, 1895 (no. 556). 
Solanum (Polymeris) Lambii, n. sp.—A stiff vine climb- 
ing ten feet over bushes: branches subterete, geniculate, 
densely stellate-pubescent above: leaves solitary or geminate 
and unequal above, an inch or two long, broadly ovate or ren- 
iform with blunt or rounded tips and cordate bases, densely 
white-stellate beneath, fuscous-stellate above, especially on 
the veins; petioles two to seven lines long, stellate-pubescent: 
peduncles stellate-pubescent, two to four, axillary, unequal, 
none exceeding the leaves, bearing single flowers: calyx sub- 
globose, stellate-pubescent, with ten linear teeth one and 
one-half to two and one-half lines in length: corolla blue and 
white, eight lines high, plicate, angulately 5-lobed, externally 
cinereous-puberulent in bands, the narrow lobes somewhat 
incurved: anthers oblong, yellow, two and one-half to three 
lines long, one of them raised on a filament to twice the 
height of the other four.—Collected at Villa Union, Sinaloa, 
by Mr. Lamb, January 10, 1895 (no. 446). 
Two specimens, one collected at Wartenberg, Huasteca by 
Ervendberg (no. 126), August-September, 1858; the other 
by Mr. Hahn in 1865-66 (no station given), may belong here, 
but they have their leaves tapering at the base. 
Carlowrightia glabrata, n. sp.—The slender somewhat 
woody stem diffusely branched, a foot or two high, villous of 
glabrate or merely puberulent: leaves one and one-half to two 
and one-half inches long, tapering below to slender petioles 
three to four lines in length, and above to cuspidate tips, 
finely pubescent or glabrate on both surfaces: flowering 
branches almost naked, arising from the upper axils, some- 
what dichotomous, elongated and forming very slender few- 
flowered spikes three to eight inches in length: calyx-teeth 
subulate, one and one-half to two lines long, viscid-pubescent, 
twice as long as the lance-subulate bracts: corolla white of 
