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sessile or short-pedunculate, 2~3-jointed, in anthesis 3 to 6 mm. long, 
7-13-flowered: flowers 3-merous, fruiting spikes 1.5 to 2 em. long, on 
peduncles 2 to 6 mm. in length: berry oblong, 3 to 4 mm. long, hir- 
tellous-puberulent.— Mexico. State of San Luis Potosi: Alvarez, 5 
to 10 September, 1902, Dr. Edward Palmer, no. 119 (hb. Gr. and 
hb. U. S. Nat, Mus.). 
In general appearance this species resembles Phoradendron brachys- 
tachyum, D. Oliv., but differs in the denser tomenium, the longer and 
pedunculate fruiting spikes, and finally by the more oblong pubescent 
fruit. 
Kchites Smithii, n.sp. Stem terete, closely and evenly puberulent : 
leaves opposite, short-petiolate, oblong-lanceolate, 3 to 6 em. long, 1 to 
2.5 cm. broad, acute, entire, subcordate at the base, dark green and 
glabrous or slightly hirtellous-puberulent above especially near the 
margins, paler and glabrous beneath, bearing 2 small glands on the upper 
surface of the blade at its junction with the petiole; midrib and the 5 to 
7 pairs of lateral nerves rather prominent beneath ; petioles 2 to 4 mm. 
long, puberulent: inflorescence usually supra-axillary, racemose, few 
(1-3)-flowered, shorter than the leaves; peduncles 5 mm. or less in 
length; bracts lance-linear,}4 to 5 mm. long, acute, often purplish ; 
pedicels 5 to 8 mm. long and as well as the peduncles puberulent: calyx 
deeply 5-parted, persistent; lobes lanceolate, acute, 4 to 5 mm. long, 
green or slightly purplish-tinged: glands 2 to 4, opposite each sepal: _ 
corolla salverform, yellow or yellowish white, glabrous; tube 10 to 12 
mm. high; lobes oblique, about 8 mm. in length: stamens included ; 
anthers blunt, 2.6 mm. long: immature follicles pubescent: disk deeply 
5-lobed. — Mexico. State of Oaxaca: Saloma, altitude 1981 m., 9 
August, 1895, Albert L. Smith, no. 672 (hb. Gr.); Huancilla- 
Nochixtlan (Nochistlan), alt. 2000 m., June, 1901, C. Conzatti & V. 
Gonzalez, no, 1198 (hb. Gr.). 
MANDEVILLA OAXACANA, Hemsley, Biol. Cent.-Am. Bot. ii. 316. 
To this species should be referred specimens collected by Mr. C. G.. 
Pringle on dry ledges of foothills above the city of Oaxaca, Mexico, at an 
altitude of 1830 m., 29 May, 1895, no. 4662 (hb. Gr.). This number of 
Mr. Pringle’s exsiccatae was erroneously determined as Lchites secundi- 
flora, A. DC., under which name it was distributed. Hereto may also 
be referred specimens secured by Sefior C. Conzatti on hills of the San 
Felipe del Agua, Oaxaca, altitude 1800 m., 1 September, 1895, no. 578 
(hb. Gr.). 
The species is apparently common about the City of Oaxaca, and is 
