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erately oblique at the base, 4-6 lines in length, 1}—2 lines in 
breadth, paler beneath: racemes numerous, many-flowered, 6 inches 
or more in length, flowering from near the base: flowers early de- 
ciduous, leaving the rhachis naked below: pedicels 4—5 lines long, 
articulated somewhat above the middle: calyx-teeth subequal, 
ovate-oblong, smooth, yellowish brown, subcoriaceous, distinctly 
but narrowly imbricated, 2-2} lines long, reflexed in anthesis: 
petals bright yellow, obovate, erose, 4-5 lines long, one of them 
with a slightly narrower blade and broader claw, and bearing 4 — 
small crest-like appendage on the inside near the base; stamens 
erect, equalling the corolla; filaments silky near the base; ovary — 
hirsute, about 6-ovuled: fruit not seen.— Volcanic hills, Monte . 
Leon Pass, Michoacan, May, 1891 (n. 3730). “The very narrow — 
imbrication of thé sepals tends to connect Cesalpinia and — 
Poinciana. ‘ 
LopEeziA ANGUSTIFOLIA. Somewhat woody near the base: stem — 
purplish, nearly smooth, 2-4 feet high, giving off numerous slen- — 
der spreading subsimple branches: cauline leaves not persistent, — 
the lower not seen, the upper ones and those of the branches nar — 
rowly lanceolate, irregularly subserrate, glabrous, 5-10 lines long, 2 
1-2 lines broad, pellucid-punctate, narrowed to a bluntish point, — 
contracted at the base to a slender petiole (13-3 lines in length) — 
midrib often reddish: racemes numerous, terminating the stem — 
and branches, not distinctly pedunculate; pedicels not exceeding — 
6 lines: calyx segments red, linear, narrowed to an obtuse point, a 
the lowest somewhat broader: petals purple, the lower ones 0D® — 
vate, cuneate, 3 lines long, the upper with a linear-oblong blade, a 
searcely at all auriculate at the base; glands single, very slightly — 
contracted in the middle: sterile stamen with filament not equal : 
ing the suborbicular retuse bright-red blade: fruit spherical, 2 
lines in diameter.— Limestone ledges of Las Canoas, San Luls- 
Potosi, October, 1891 (n. 3990).. 
COULTEROPHYTUM, n. gen. of the Umbelliferse (Selinew): 
Stylopodium slender, conical; margin not distinctly undulate: — 
Fruit clavate, subterete in cross-section, contracted below th? — 
seeds into a short winged stipe-like base; commissure broad; ¢2° — 
pels compressed dorsally; the primary ribs narrowly winged, the : 
lateral wings slightly broader; oil-tubes single at the intervals, a 
about four on the commissure; seed-face concave.— Tall perennial of i 
_ robust habit; leaves bi- or tripinnate: inflorescence much branched; 
oe umbels compound: bracts of the involucres and involucels several, 
