154 Robinson and Greenman—Meaican Plants. 
glandular-puberulent peduncles; outer involucral bracts lanceo- 
late to linear-oblong, obtuse, 4 lines long, a line wide, inconspic- 
uously 3-nerved; inner bracts ovate, acutish: ray-flowers about 
11, bearing sterile stamens; ligules nearly 3 lines long, obtusely 
3-toothed at the apex and provided at the base on the inner side 
with 2 smaller teeth : achenes oblique, smooth.—Collected by ©. 
G. Pringle, in cold brooks, meadows of Sierra de Clavellinas, alti- 
tude 9,000 feet, 16 October, 1894 (No. 4987). 
GYMNOLOMIA TRIPARTITA. Stem slender, glabrous, nearly ter 
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cuneate-winged : inflorescence corymbose; pedicels 8 lines to 1} 
inches in length: involucral scales lanceolate, acute, 3-nerved, 
glabrescent: ray flowers about 11, yellow, oblong, 34 lines long: 
disk conical, 4 lines in diameter: chaff strongly keeled, terminated 
by a short subulate tip.—Collected by L. C. Smith, at Cuicatlan, 
altitude 1,800 feet, 22 October, 1894 (No. 239). i : 
ERYMENIUM JALISCENSE. Caudex short, thick, an inch 1 
feet high: leaves opposite, short-petioled, oblong to linear-lance 
late, obtuse, serrate or subentire, narrowed at the base, condupll- 
cate, spreading and somewhat recurved, about 2 inches long, 3 to 
ines , 3-ner US ; 
very unequal: involucral scales in 3 series; the outer broadly 
ovate, obtuse, minutely cinereous-pubescent, ciliated upon the mar- 
gin; the inner longer, about 2 lines in length: rays 8, uneq” 
about 3 lines long, more than two-thirds as broad, bright-yellow, 
minutely 3-toothed at the apex, ciliolate toward the base xy 
upon the nerves on the outer surface: mat 
lines long, minutely pubescent toward the ap 0 
Dr. Edward Palmer, Rio Blanco, Jalisco, August, 1886 (No. 310), 
and also by C. G. Pringle, on rocky hills near Guadalajara, se 
August, 1893 (No. 5 Dr. Palmer’s specimen has 
referred t Cervantesii DC. by Dr. Watson, Proc. Am. 4° 
- xxii, 427, but it has been compared with the type at Gene 
through the kindness of Dr. Casimir De Candolle and Monsieu 
Buser and proves to be quite distinct, nor does it appear to ae 
form of P. Mendezii DC., as suggeste Dr. weer eA 
an umbellate inflorescence. The plant is habitally marked by * 
strongly conduplicate and somewhat recurved leaves. 
