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middle, equilateral or occasionally inequilateral, sessile or sub- 

 sessile, glabrous, coriaceous, lustrous above, pellucid-glandular, 

 the glands few, scattered, the marginal glands larger ; lateral 

 leaflets 2.5-7 "^^n- lo"g> ^-4 ^^- broad, the terminal leaflet 

 somewhat longer and broader; flowers not seen; calyx from 

 under mature carpels, 1.5-2 mm. broad, the sepals 5, entire or 

 denticulate ; fruiting inflorescence lateral, sessile or subsessile ; 

 capsules one to three, sessile, obovoid, compressed, 6-9 mm. 

 long, 5-9 mm. broad, blackish or brownish, the surface wrinkled ; 

 seeds orbicular, compressed, often truncate at the base, 5-6 mm. 

 long, black, shining, smooth or slightly wrinkled. 



Type collected in a xerophytic region near Gonaives, Haiti, G. 

 V. Nash IS79- 



Amyris texana (Buckley) Wilson, comb. nov. 

 Zanthoxylum texanuni Buckley, Bull. Torrey Club 10 : 90. 1883. 

 Amyris parvifolia A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 23 : 226. 1888, 



Type collected by S. B. Buckley near Corpus Christi, Texas, 

 April, 1882. 



Casimiroa edulis La Llav. & Lex. Nov. Veg. Descr. 2 : 2. 



1825. 

 Zanthoxylum bombacifolium A. Rich. Ess. Fl. Cub. 329. 1845. 

 Fagara bombacifolia Krug & Urban, Bot. Jahrb. 21 : 567. 



1896. 



Sagra's specimen in the herbarium of the Academy of Natural 

 Sciences, Philadelphia, agrees with Mexican material of Casimiroa 

 edulis ; the ovary in the Sagra specimen is abortive. It is very 

 probable that the material upon which Richard based his Zan- 

 thoxylum bombacifolium was from a cultivated plant. 



Specimens collected in Cuba by Bonpland and G. Don and 

 referred by Dr. Urban to Richard's species have not been ex- 

 amined by me. 



Percy Wilson. 

 Nf.\v York Botanical Garden. 



Another Leaf-spot Fungus of the Apple. — During the 

 past five years, I have been trying to find out what fungus it is 

 that causes the defoliation of so many apple-orchards in West 

 Virginia. An examination of hundreds of leaves from some of 



