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hirsute, 4—5 lines in length, appearing horizontal, the ascending acut- 
ish spur being more than half as long as the proper tube, the latter 
narrowed upwards: the petals lilac, elliptical, subequal: the dorsal 2 
lines, the four ventral 1} lines long: stamens 11, included: ovules 6.— 
Moist banks, mountains near Lake Chapala, Jalisco, November, 1892 
(n. 4349). A species well marked by the almost horizontal calyx, 
which in shape resembles the body of a bird. 
CurHea (Leprocatyx) Rerusrica. Slender, decumbent, about 
3 feet high, somewhat branched: stem slightly scabrous with minute 
transverse hairs attached in the middle and with a line of much longer 
hairs: leaves ovate, acuminate, hispid on both surfaces, paler beneath, 
1-1} inches long, two thirds as broad, abruptly narrowed at the base 
into a petiole 3-5 lines in length: pedicels interpetiolar, 3 lines long: 
calyx slender, nearly straight, almost an inch in length: the tube red 
with a white spot on the ventral surface at the summit, hispidulous, 
shortly and obtusely spurred: appendages linear oblong, setulose, 
green, considerably exceeding the lobes: petals deciduous, bright ¥ eb 
low, all small, the 2 dorsal 13 lines long, the 4 ventral about a line m 
length: stamens 9, unequally exserted: ovules about 12.— Rocky 
hills near Patzcuaro, Michoacan, October, 1892 (n. 4112). An attract 
ive species, somewhat resembling the commonly cultivated C. platy 
centra, the calyx bearing the colors, red, white, and green, of the | 
Mexican flag. 
Fucusia Prinevet. Shrub, 2 feet high, with a brown shreddy 
bark: branches purple, pulverulent: leaves small, ovate-elliptic 
lance-elliptic, obtuse, narrowed to a short petiole, somewhat undulate 
and revolute on the margins, very minutely pubescent above, consider 
ably paler and nearly smooth beneath, about 4 lines long, half as broad? | 
flowers 3 lines long, short peduncled, axillary, solitary: peduncles — 
slender, 2 lines in length: calyx segments dark purple, oblong; apicu- 
late, reflexed, two thirds as long as the free part of the tube: pe 
obovate, spreading, undulate, about equalling the segments of the 
calyx : stamens slightly exserted ; style considerably so: fruit globose, 
3—4 lines in diameter, black. — Mountains near Patzcuaro, Michoaca®, 
November, 1891, in fruit (n. 5063); barranca near Guadalaja™ 
Jalisco, September, 1891, also in fruit (n. 5002); and under pine 
mountains near Patzcuaro, Michoacan, July, 1892 (n. 4140). The — 
species differs from F. minutiflora and F. mixta, Hemsl., in its reflexe 
calyx segments, its undulate not serrulate leaves, and its relatively : : 
longer petals. 
_CyYcLANTHERA Prinewer Stem slender, nearly smooth, 5-ribbed? 
