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15 lines long by 6 wide, narrowed at the base into a petiole 3 to 4 
lines in length: flowers 2 to 4 at each node, usually but one of each 
group fruiting; common peduncle none; pedicels slender, 3 lines long: 
calyx-teeth 5, at anthesis ovate, one third as long as the tube; fruiting 
calyx much enlarged, bladder-like, neither angled nor conspicuously 
veined, becoming black, 9 lines in diameter, with throat contracted 
and teeth relatively short; corolla campanulate, 5 lines long, with a 
more or less spreading limb of five ovate acutish segments equalling 
the tube, pale yellow with conspicuous dark spots in the puberulent 
throat; filaments inserted in the middle of the short tube, half the 
length of the oblong anthers: berry globular, red, much smaller than 
the enclosing calyx ; seeds roughened, compressed, yellow. — Tama 
sopo Cafion, San Luis Potosi; June to October, 1890 (n. 3285). A 
plant of puzzling affinities, possessing the habit of a Physalis, but hav- 
ing a woody stem, clustered flowers, calyx without conspicuous angles 
or veins, and anthers much exceeding the filaments. Some of the — 
characters resemble those of Athenea; in that genus, however, the : 
fruiting calyx is much more deeply divided. 
HERPESTIS AURICULATA. Roots fibrous; stem erect, smooth, sharply 
4-angled, much branched above, a foot high; branches mostly simple: 
leaves lanceolate, acute, serrulate, sessile with an auriculate-clasping 4 
base, punctate, 8 to 10 lines long, 8 lines broad; floral leaves gradu 
ally reduced to linear bracts 2 to 8 lines long: flowers small, axillary, — 
mostly in pairs, opposite at each node; pedicels filiform, 3 lines long; 
divisions of the calyx acuminate, a line long, becoming 14 lines Jong : 
in fruit, very unequal in breadth, three of them ovate, the inner two 
rather narrowly lanceolate, none of them at all oblong; corolla pu” — 
plish, 3 lines long, slightly bearded within near the summit of the 
tube; rudimentary stamen present, very small, subulate : capsule de- | 
pressed-ovoid, subglobose, not exceeding the calyx, 2-valved.— Wet 
places near Guadalajara; November, 1889 (n. 2937). 
GERARDIA PUNCTATA. Stem puberulent, much branched: leaves — 
small, numerous, opposite or appearing fascicled, linear, entire, acute, | 
smooth, 7 to 10 lines long, a line or less in breadth; bracts similar * | 
flowers rather numerous, opposite in long subspicate racemes 3 pedicels 
1 to 2 lines long: calyx smooth, 10-nerved, often punctate with small 4 
purple dots, the five teeth lanceolate, acuminate, exceeding the tube, : 
the intermediate nerves terminating at each sinus in a minute g ai - 
lar prominence; corolla purple, tubular-campanulate, an inch long — 
the lobes a fourth as long as the tube; stamens conspicuously didyn® 
mous, the upper pair being much shorter and having consi my 
