20 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 68 



The ample material before the present writer represents a plant 

 differing from Sambncus ebulus in at least two important respects: 

 the branches of the inflorescence are pubescent rather than glabrous, 

 as in that species, and the nutlets are about twice as long and 

 much narrower proportionally. The difference in size of fruit is 

 not the result of insect work, the drupes appearing quite normal. 



