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long, the larger 4-angled, glabrous, the smaller roundish, some- 

 what pubescent : leaves ovate, nearly entire, mostly rounded at 

 both ends, often pubescent on the veins, sometimes all over, 

 blade of the largest 17 mm. long, 10 mm. broad, mostly smaller 

 (10x8 mm.) ; petiole shorter than the blade, generally pubescent 

 with scattered hairs : peduncle at flowering time not more than 

 3 mm. long, fine-filiform : calyx shorter than the peduncle, fre- 

 quently less than 1 mm. in longest dimension, longer than broad, 

 tube longer than the teeth : corolla very small, about 2 mm. in 

 diameter when fully expanded, darkened at the center; anthers 

 purple : calyx in fruit about 15 mm. long, more or less 5-angled, 

 teeth very short (less than 2 mm.) connivent ; peduncle shorter 

 than the calyx, very slender : berry yellow, much smaller than 

 the calyx, 5 mm. in diameter when dry. 



Acapulco, Mexico, Dr. Edward Palmer, winter of 1894—95, 

 no. 304. 



Pliysalis mimita belongs to the crassifoliae ; its leaves have 

 much the general appearance of P. crassifolia, to which un- 

 doubtedly it is closely related. It is, however, very different 

 from that species in the very short, slender peduncles, the minute 

 flowers and the connivent calyx-teeth. The size of the flower 

 suggests affinity with P. mimitiflora Mog. & Sesse but it differs 

 at least in the entire leaves without any sign of being pruinose. 



Dr. Palmer states that the fruit of this plant is sold all the 

 year round in the markets of Acapulco for making soups, gravies 

 and stuffing for fowls. 

 Columbus, Ohio. 



TWO ORCHIDS FROM NEW MEXICO 



By T. D. A. Cockekell 



On June 17 and 18 of the present year, Dr. M. Grabham of 

 Jamaica, West Indies, who was visiting me at Pecos, New Mex- 

 ico, collected in the immediate vicinity two species of Corallorhiza, 

 which he brought to me alive. After studying the specimens, 

 they were put in press, and examples have been sent to the New 

 York Botanical Garden, to which also the living roots were for- 

 warded. 



