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flore solitario e axilla foliorum superiorum orto in specimine ad 
manum etiam praesente ~— an normaliter ?) 1 dm. alta 1.5 dm. 
lata nuda scabrida pilis patentibus apice glochidiatis aliis eglochi- 
diatis admixtis, in pedunculo nudo 5.5 em. longo; bracteae fili- 
formes 2-3 mm. longae setosae pilis non glochidiatis; pedicelli 1.5 
em. longi vel breviores. Calycis tubus anthesi turbinatus setosus 
pilis aliis apice glochidiatis aliis longioribus eglochidiatis 2 mm. 
longus, segmenta lanceolata acuminata herbacea erecta similiter 
pubescentia 3 mm. longa; tubus maturitate ampliatus 10-costatus 
3—4 mm. longus, segmenta 3-costata usque ad 6 mm. longa. Petala 
5 flava ovalia apice obtusa basi vix contracta 8 mm. longa 4.5 mm. 
lata patentia basi paullum connata. Discus vix ullus. Stamina 10 
omnia antherifera glabra, antisepala longiora; filamenta 3.5 et 4.5 
mm. longa; antherae albidae 3 et 5.6 mm. longae. Capsulae pars 
infera ca. 4 mm. longa, pars supera conica acuta glabra 5-7 mm. 
longa; stylus persistens erectus glaber 9-10 mm. longus; stigma 
0.5 mm. longum. Semen 0.7-0.8 mm. longum, uno fini funiculo 
latiusculo brevi, altero appendice brevissima donatum. — Oaxaca: 
Cafetal Nueva Esperanza, Dept. Pochutla, 600 m., 9 April 1917, 
Conzatti, Reko, & Makrinius 3010 (tyre in Gray Herb.). — Local 
name “‘ Camote de llama ” (camote is a name for the Sweet Potato, 
and evidently refers to the thick tuberous root of the plant). 
- The genus Schismocarpus (from cxicun, a cleft, and xaprés, 
fruit, in allusion to the 5-cleft free portion of the capsule) evidently 
belongs in the tribe Mentzelieae as the family is by 
Urban & Gilg in their monograph. From Menitzelia, the only genus 
recognized in that tribe by Urban & Gilg, it differs primarily in the 
more than half superior ovary and the innumerable multiseriate 
seeds. The few stamens, unequal in size but otherwise similar, 
and the lack of staminodia are features less characteristic of the 
genus. The many-flowered pedunculate and essentially naked 
Sympodial cymose panicle of Schismocarpus is moreover quite 
unknown in Mentzelia, although suggested by some species of 
Klaprothia. 
CuUPHEA (CLeptocalys) megelophyis, Blake, ‘Sp. Nov. Herbacea 
(basi invisa mplex. Caulis 
Viridis inf subteres supra leviter 4-sulcatus to PE hispidulus 
pilis brevissimis retrorsis vel appressis et subdense setosus pilis 
longis patentibus albidis eglandulosis. Folia opposita subinae- 

