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PHYSALIS SURINAMENSIS G. Miquel, Linnaea 17: 741. 1844. 
(Specimen without number.) The same as Hostmann & Kap- 
pler’s type. 
Physalis Rydbergii sp. nov. 
Younger portions, and especially the calyx, hispid with branched 
white hairs; stems stout, but weak, widely branched, the branches 
slender; petioles 1-2 cm. long, slender; blades 2-6 cm. long, 1-3 
cm. broad, ovate, pisecocaipe especially at the broad base, acumi- 
nate and acute at the apex, coarsely and irregularly dentate, very 
thin and flaccid, bright-green, the venation slender, very prominent 
h : 
iene, ‘little elongating in fruit; eee in flower 5 mm., in fruit 1.7 
cm. long, ovate, acute; coro olla 7m say very pale, the base 
loosely enclosed in the calyx. (Vo. 2520.) 
Species near P. minima, but iiffering i in the indumentum. al- 
mer 472 from Guadalajara, Mexico, appears to be a more hispid 
form of this species, while A@iler 2855 from Veracruz is possibly 
a smooth form. 
Bassovia aNcEPS (R. & P.) Rusby, Bull. Torrey Club 26: 197. 
1899. (Nos. 2527 and 2526.) 
BRACHISTUS LASIOPHYLLUS (Dunal) Rusby, Bull. Torrey Club 
26: 198. 1899. (Wo. 2677.) 
Brachistus fasciculatus sp. no 
Softly gray-tomentose with ne hairs; branches slender, 
woody, terete; petioles 2-3 cm. long, narrow, lightly channeled ; 
flaccid, deep-green above, gray underneath, the venation very slen- 
der, reticulate, lightly prominent both sides; pedicels fascicled, 
2-3 cm. long, very slender, gradually thickened upward; arg 
tube a mm. long, 4 mm. broad, the ro teeth filiform, 4-5 m 
long; corolla Nie I-I. ae cm. long, shallowly lobed; fruit ae 
seen. (Vo. 2872.) 
The same as inden gii and 412. 
Poecilochroma macrophylla sp. 
Branches elongated, stout, aban roughened with slender, curved, 
corky excrescences; petioles 1-2 cm. long, narrow considering the 
size of leaf, channeled ae blades 0.7-1.5 dm. long, 3-6 cm 
broad, ovate, oval, or some obovate, acute at the base, mostly obtuse 
at the apex, entire, bright-green, glabrous, but strongly and finely 
wrinkled in drying, thickish, midrib channeled above, venation 
lightly prominent underneath, secondaries about 7 pairs, intercon- 
