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especially with some forms of the polymorphic S. cinerea. A female plant 
has been. previously distributed by Mr. Leefe (Sal. Exs. fasc. ii. no. 33) 
(Caracas) submitted lately to my inspection some fragments of a plant he 
had received from Guayaquil, and which were said to come from the famous 
* Qundurango." It was a single leaf, rather roughly preserved, and a 
considerable quantity of the tufts of silky hairs which constitute the 
coma of the Asclepiadacee. No seeds, how e 
hairs, The leaf is petioled (petiole about 13” long, and hispidulous), 
aves 
of Asclepiadacer’ (DC. . Viii. . (Nov 
Gen. et Sp. Pl. iii. p. 201, t. 233), and M. rotata, Dsne., Cynanchum 
longiflorum, Jacq. (Amer. p. 85, t. 59), was recognized by the same 
author as another species (DC. Prod. viii. 551), but omitted in the article 
dedicated to Macroscepis. Karsten describes a fourth species (calling it 
a third species, as he likewise was not aware of the existence of M. longi- 
a) M. urceolata (‘Flora Columbiæ, ii. p. 115, t. 161). The ma- 
terial at hand renders it, of course, entirely impossible for me to determine 
to which of these species the “ Cundurango" may belong, or if it will 
turn out to be a new species. se who have access to essor 
Jameson's (late of Quito) * Synopsis Plantarum Aiquatoriensium’ (2 vols. 
1865, 1867), will perhaps be able to give some further information.— 
A. Ernst. [See also p. 63.] 
Coruna COoRONOFIFOLIA, L. This plant was first met with in Eng- 
land about two years ago. (See Journ. Bot. 1870, p. 8.) As it is always 
interesting to trace the migrations of an introduced plant, it may be well 
