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are produced into 4-5 or more finger-like processes of unequal 
lengths, the longest being 3 mm. long. The minute anther 
wings are corneous. Collected on Cerro de Castillo, near Coate- 
pec, Puebla, growing in rocky soil. No. 2836. 
Asclepiodora insignis. Caules 3-4 dm. longi compressi glabri 
e radicibus tuberosis: foliis glabris oppositis oblongis obtusis 
vel retusis, apice abrupte acuminatis, basi cordatis, margine un- 
dulatis, sessilibus: umbellis caules terminantibus; pedunculis 
2-4 cm. longis; pedicellis 1-2 cm. longis bifariam pubescentibus: 
calycis segmentis oveto-lanceolatis numquam reflexis, 6-8 mm. 
longis: corollis fere basi in lobos flavescenti-albidos ovato- 
oblongos, 1.5-1.8 cm. longos, albo-marginatos, apice obtusos 
curvato-mucronatos sectis: cucullis columnz affixis, a latere 
complanatis, costa 1.5 mm. lata szepe rubella, antheras multo 
Superantibus, lamellis triangularis instructis, squamis parvis 
duobus alternantibus: antheris alis truncatis basi rotundatis. 
Folliculi nh 
This peculiar sp blesi ts A. Foaws a plant 
that has been considered an Asc/epias by Gray, and an Asclepio- 
dora by Chapman. The genus Asclepiodora is suppressed in 
Pflanzenfamilien by K. Schuman. This plant is certainly not an 
Asclepias, and also not a good Ascleprodora. The hoods altern- 
_ ate with two small scales, are solid below the middle, and the 
sides of the upper part are separated by a thin lamina attached to 
the midrib. The midrib has almost no thickness, but is wide, as 
if the sides of the hood were united to form it, and it is colored a 
reddish brown, making astriking contrast with the corolla. The 
anther wings are corneous, except at their rounded bases and 
the pollinia equal in length the caudicle. San Luis Tultitlanpa. 
No. 2624. 
Nama spatulatum. Caules e radice lignosis 5-10 cm. alltis, 
hirsutis foliosis: foliis spatulatis 2-3 cm. longis, 2-5 mm. latis 
utrinque hirsutis, basi angustatis, sessilibus acuminatis: floribus 
axillaribus pedicellis 4 mm. longis: calycis segmentis 9-10 mm. 
longis, lineari-lanceolatis, pubescenti-hirsutis: corollis calycibus 
duplo longioribus tubulato-infunduliformibus purpureis, lobis 
Parvis: filamentis inferne bidentatis, basi corolla adnatis margini- 
