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flexuose, somewhat gray-pubescent with incurved hairs, densely 
leafy. Leaves obovate, rounded at the mucronulate apex, cuneate 
at base, 1-nerved, somewhat dull with incurved puberulence, dense- 
ly translucent-glandular-dotted, 4.5-8 mm. long, 1.5-6 mm. wide, 
on petioles 0.5 mm. long. Racemes axillary, very short, 1-2- 
flowered. Flowers purple, 6—7.5 mm. long. Sepals oblong-ovate, 
obtuse, ciliate and puberulous, 1.2-1.5 mm. long, the upper often 
subpersistent. Wings spatulate-obovate, long-cuneate at base, 
rounded at apex, sparsely ciliate, purple, 7.5 mm. long, 3.7 mm. 
wide. Keel 3-lobed, the lateral lobes broad and rounded, 4.5 mm. 
long. Upper petals oblong-obovate, rounded at apex, 5 mm. long. 
Staminal tube ciliolate at base. Capsule “ elliptic, deeply emar- 
ginate, slightly pilose, dotted with whitish glands.” Seed “ oblong, 
clothed with appressed hairs.” Aril ‘ galeiform, equitant, with 
very short lobes, 3-4 times shorter than the seéd.”” — HBK. Nov. 
Gen. v. 404. t. 510 (1821); Chod. Monog. ii. 37. t. 14. f. 37-39 
(1893). Viola punctata Humb. & Bonpl. ex R. & 8. Syst. v. 391 
(1819), not P. punctata A. W. Benn. Journ. Bot. xvii. 172 (1879). 
P. Greggit Wats.! Proc. Am. Acad. xvii. 325 (1882). — Nurvo 
LEon: west of Cerralbo, 29 May 1847, Gregg (rypE of P. Greggii: 
G). San Luis Potost: dry hills, Micos, 1 Aug. 1891, Pringle 
4006 (G). — The flowers are described by Watson, presumably 
from Gregg’s label, as white, but as some of those in Pringle 4006 
are manifestly purple, while others have faded to the same dull 
whitish hue as in Gregg’s plant, I have taken the normal color of 
the fresh flower as purple. 
69. P. phoenicistes, sp. nov. Caules plures e basi fruticulosa 
~ procumbente suberecti vel laxe diffusi ramosi laete virides incurvo- 
puberuli et glanduloso-punctati dense foliosi 6-15 em. longi. Folia 
cuneato-obovata apice rotundata mucronulata basi cuneata dense 
glanduloso-conspersa subtus ad costam obscurissime incurvo-pu- 
berula ceterum glabra 5.5-7 mm. longa 2.54.5 mm. lata, in petiolis 
sparse incurvo-puberulis 0.5 mm. longis. Flores purpurei in racemis 
brevissimis 1-floris 6-7 mm. longi. Sepala lanceolata acuminata mar- 
gine sparsissime ciliolata ceterum glabra glanduloso-punctata 2.5 
mm. longa, superius persistens. Alae spathulato-obovatae apice 
obtusae basi longe cuneatae purpureae subsparse incurvo-puberu- 
lae et ciliolatae 6 mm. longae 2.5 mm. latae. Carina ut in P. 
glandulosa, 6 mm. longa. Petala superiora obovata apice rotun- 
