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well characterized by the tubular-funnelform corolla, In all other 
characters it agrees well with the genus He/iles. 
Gonolobus calcicola, n. sp. Stems twining, ligneous at the base, a 
hirtellous-puberulent, the younger parts also hirsute with spreading 
or somewhat refiexed hairs: leaves petiolate, ovate, 2 to 6 cm. long, 
1 to 3 em. broad, acute or acuminate, entire, hirtellous-pubescent” : 
above, granulose beneath and often scattered-hirsute especially on the a 
prominent midrib and nerves, revolute-margined; petioles 10 to 22 — 
mm. long, hirtellous-pubescent: inflorescence in axillary congested 
several-flowered cymes; peduncles shorter than the petioles: flowers 
medium-size : calyx deeply 5-parted ; divisions lance-elliptic, 6 to 7 mm — 
long, 2 to 3 mm. broad, acute, ciliate, externally hirsutish pubescent: — 
corolla dark brownish-purple, about 2 em. in diameter, externally min — 
utely puberulent, upper or inner surface corrugated-verrucose, bearing 
a few scattered whitish hairs: crown 5-lobed; lobes fleshy, unequally — 
papillose or somewhat warty: fruit not seen. — Mexico. State 0 is 
Morelos: limestone hills, Jojutla, near Cuernavaca, 30 August, 1902, 2 
C. G. Pringle, no. 11,367 (hb. Gr.). 
In general habit G, calcicola suggests G. congestus, Decne.. but the — 
_ smaller narrower leaves, fewer larger flowers, and the lobed crown serve — 
to separate readily the two species. 
Nama unputatum, HBK., var. macranruum, Choisy, Hydrol. 
18, t. 2, f. 1; DC. Prodr. x. 182; Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. x. 3305 — 
Hemsl. Biol. Cent.-Am. Bot. ii. 364. N. Berlandieri, Gray, 1. G — 
_ Vili, 282. Specimens belonging to this interesting variety have beet — 
secured by Mr. E. W. Nelson at Montemorelos, State of Nuevo Leon; — 
no. 6697. Although the variety has been generally understood a — 
having merely sessile and amplexicaul leaves, yet the specimens now a 
hand, from Mr. Nelson, show very distinctly that the leaves are not 
only sessile and amplexicaul, but more or less decurrent on the stem 
oreover a careful examination of Berlandier’s nos. 699, 2116 (hb 
Gr.) show some of the leaves to be decurrent. The plant is a well- 
‘Variety, and further material, especially complete specimens, MaY 
: : prove it to be specifically distinct, 
ra oh al bettie va tama 8, pen ree ee 
Pringlei, n. sp. Stems leafy to the inflorescences 
_ striate, hirsute-pubescent: stem leaves sessile, 
lanceolate, 3 to 12 cm. long, 1 to 4 em. broad, acute, entire, dark gree? 
_ above, Paler beneath, hirsute-pubescent on both surfaces: inflorescenc? 
semiamplexicaul, oblong: - 
compound, many-flowered, more or less bracteate: pedicels 0.5 to 2 em. " 
s = long, recurved at least in the later stages, 
appressed-pubescent : calyS 
