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eymulis vulgatim 2-3-floris breviter pedicellatis bracteolis linearib 
suffultis; calyce anguste campanulato basi turbinato, tubo griseo 
arachnoideo, lobis 4 lanceolato-linearibus deflexis modice inaequalibus 
tubum subaequantibus glabriusculis; corolla coccinea, tubo gracili 
subcylindrico sursum paulo ampliato basin versus glabriusculo supra 
cum limbo patente plus minusve arachnoideo ca. 17 cm. longo, lobis 
4 orbicularibus ca. 3 mm. diametro tenuiter margine crispulis; ore 
nudo; staminibus 4 in ore affixis paulo exsertis, antheris lineari- 
oblongis ; capsula subglobosa ca. 4 mm. diametro septicidali, valvis 
bifidis. — Mexico: Chicharras, Chiapas, alt. 920-1840 m., H. W. Nel- 
son, no. 3755 (type material in U. S. Nat. Mus. and Gray Herb). 
This plant possesses so precisely the habit and most of the technical 
features of a Rondeletia that it seems best to refer it to this genus, 
though it will form an exception among the known species in the fact 
that its fruit is septicidal. 
Hymenodictyon floribundum (Hochst. & Steud.), n. comb. 
Kurria floribunda Hochst. & Steud. Flora, xxiv. pt. 1, Intell. 28 
(1841), name only ; ibid. xxv. 234 (1842), with description. Hymeno- 
dictyon Kurria Hochst. Flora, xxvi. 71 (1843). ; 
Bouvardia gracilipes, n. sp., fruticosa ; ramis gracilibus teretibus 
cortice griseo tectis glabris, ramulis valde compressis, internodiis lon- 
giusculis glabris, nodis stipulisque puberulis ; foliis oppositis breviter 
petiolatis tenuibus ovatis acuminatis basi rotundatis 5-7 cm. Jongis 
2-3.5 em. latis supra laete viridibus glabris subtus pallidioribus m 
costa venisque obscure puberulis ; petiolo 2 mm. longo sordide tomen- 
tello ; ocreis pallidis ca. 1 mm. longis marginem versus tomentellis 
cum appendicibus filiformibus breviter pubescentibus ca. 2 mm. longis 
munitis ; inflorescentiis terminalibus laxis 8—12-floris glabris ; pedun- 
culis 2-4 cm. longis trichotomis, bracteis linearibus 1-3 mm. longis, _ 
ramulis lateralibus 3-4 cm. longis vicissim trichotomis ; pedicellis fil 
formibus 1.5-2 em. longis apice denique uncinatis ; calycis dentibus 
4 linearibus 1 mm. longis erectis in fructu inflexis persistentious ; 
corolla non visa ; fructn 6 mm. lato 4.5 mm. alto pallide ie 
lente albido-lineato quasi strigilloso. — Mexico : Tepic, 5 January 
6 February, 1892, Dr, #. Palmer, no. 1971 (type, in Gray 
Although this species is described from fruiting material and Wi 
knowledge of the corolla, it is believed that the unusually loose suff 
escence with filiform at length hooked pedicels yields characters SI" 
a distinctive for ready recognition. foliis — 4 
UVARDIA LONGIFLORA (Cav.) HBK., var. induta, n. val 
ovato-rhomboideis acutis supra scabriusculo-puberulis subtus 
tosis ; corolla extus tomentella. — Mexico: “Chiapas, 
Herb.) 
ete.” Dr. 
