244 New Species of Mexican Plants. [ZOE 
Gonolobus Altatensis. A twining vine, the stems pubescent 
and also hirsute: leaves broadly ovate, acuminate, a deep, narrow 
sinus at base nearly closed by the rounded basal lobes, sparingly 
hirsute on both faces, margin entire, 5-9 cm. long, 4-8 cm. wide; 
petioles hirsute, 3-5 cm. long: inflorescence in axillary subum- 
bellate 2-5-flowered racemes; peduncles pubescent and hirsute, 
4-6 cm. long; bracts linear-subulate, hirsute; pedicels 2-3 cm. 
long; buds orbicular, pubescent: calyx segments narrowly ovate- 
lanceolate, hirsute on the outer surface, glabrous within, reticu- 
lated, 4-5 mm. long, 2 mm. wide: corolla rotate, 18°mm. in 
diameter, reticulated, parted to the middle into 5 broad, rounded 
lobes: crown of 5 thick, fleshy, rounded, contiguous proceses 
attached to the corolla and base of the column reaching nearly to 
the anthers, bearing near the middle and base within 2 small 
hyaline scales that are joined to the column and have free tips; 
the processes are widened from the margins near the base out- 
ward and then inward nearly to the column _horseshoe-like: 
stigma flat and radiate: anthers opening transversely, with rather 
prominent acute corneus wings, and white, scarious, deltoid or 
oblong tips 0.5 mm. long: fruit not seen. 
Collected near Altata and Culiacan, Sinaloa. 
NEW SPECIES OF MEXICAN PLANTS. 
BY T. S. BRANDEGEE. 
A few of these plants were found in Baja California the 
others are from the collections of Dr C. A. Purpus, made dur- 
ing the years 1906 and i907, at Zacuapan, Vera Cruz, Esperanza 
and Boca del Monte, Puebla, and at San Luis Tultitlanpa, South- 
western Puebla, near the State of Oaxaca. The region about 
Zacuapan and Mirador has been visited by Galeotti, Sartorius, 
Liebman and other collectors, consequently the large collections 
of Dr. Purpus from this part of Mexico contain few undescribed’ . 
forms. Most of the following species came from the unexplored 
region between Puebla and Oaxaca. The few plants not col- 
lected by Dr. Purpus have the collector’s name mentioned, and 
