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upper two thirds, often slightly cut towards the apex, finely- 

 serrate or entire towards the base, acute or acuminate at the 

 apex, broadly cuneate at the base, 3-7 cm. long, 3-4.5 cm. wide, 

 subcoriaceous, dark-green and shining above, paler below, young 

 leaves slightly appressed-pubescent above, becoming scabrous, 

 smooth beneath ; petioles slightly winged above, a little pubes- 

 cent, about I cm. long : flowers white, about 1 5 mm. wide, in 

 few-flowered, slightly villous, compound corymbs ; pedicels sub- 

 tended by deciduous pinkish bracts about 10 mm. long, 2 mm. 

 wide, the edges serrated with stalked glands ; calyx-tube smooth or 

 sometimes slightly pubescent; sepals linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 sharply glandular-serrate, about 7 mm. long, smooth on the out- 

 side, appressed-pubescent above ; stamens about 10 ; anthers light 

 salmon-pink; styles 4-5, smooth at base: fruit oblong to pyri- 

 form, red, slightly pubescent, about 2 cm. long ; flesh thick, soft 

 when mature, ripe about the first of October ; calyx-lobes re- 

 flexed, generally deciduous ; fruit containing generally five nut- 

 lets 7-8 mm. long, strongly ridged on the back, nest of nutlets 

 about 8 mm. thick. 



This species was found by Dr. C. G. Pringle on the estate of 

 Mr. Eugene Barousse in the mountains southeast of Saltillo, 

 Coahuila, Mexico ; he states that it is reported from other 

 mountains in the State of Coahuila, and that the fruit is used in 

 a marmalade in a number of towns of the state. Type, no. 

 1 008 J, Pringle, Oct. 4, 1905 (flowers, April 12, 1906), in her- 

 barium of the New York Botanical Garden. 



This species is entirely different from any described from either 

 Mexico or South America ; it seems to have its nearest relatives 

 among some of the Texas species, being nearest to C. Berlandicri 

 Sargent, except in the character of the leaves, in which it has 

 some affinities with the group Douglasianae of the western United 

 States. 



New York Botanic.\l G.arden. 



SHORTER NOTES 



New Stations for two Plants. — Kyllinga pumila. — 

 Professor R. E. Schuh, of California, Pa., recently sent me some 

 plants which he identified as Kyllinga pumila Michx. On com- 

 parison with material in the Carnegie Museum the identification 



