Robinson and Greenman—Mewican Plants. 165 
; stipules subulate, 
reflexed, pubescent upon the lower surface, about 2 lines long, 
purple filiform tips, 4 to 6 lines in length, bearing numerous 
divaricate glanduliferous hairs: ovary hispid-pubescent toward 
the apex; styles multifid, reddish-purple.—Collected by C. G. 
Pringle, wet cafions, Sierra de San Felipe, Oaxaca, altitude 7,500 
feet, 13 August, 1894 (No. 4789); and by E. W. Nelson, in the 
Vicinity of Sierra de San Felipe, altitude 9,500 to 11,000 feet, 
1 September, 1894 (No. 1165). 
ARIETARIA MACROPHYLLA. Suffrutescent and decumbent at 
base, 1 to 2 feet high, finely pubescent: stem subterete, striate : 
th 
elson, on the top of the Sierra Madre near Chilpancingo, 
saerrero, altitude 9,000 to 10,200 feet, 24 December, 1894 (No. 
i SPIRANTHES ERIOPHORA. Roots several, oblong, fleshy, tuber- 
ike: base of stem surrounded by the sheaths of old leaves : 
lanceolate attenuate striate bracts: spi o 6 inches long, 
5-10-flowered ; floral bracts similar in texture to those of the 
Stem, more Ovate, exceeding the flowe wers sessile: 
“rect ovary as well as the external surface of the outer divisions 
ay Strongly deflexed perianth pubescent: the upper sepals 
aboute ye nceolate, acute : the lateral linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 
COvern; wuES RUBROCALOSA. Tuberous roots 2 to 4, oblong, 
~Yered with minute fibres : radical leaves 2, narrowly lanceolate, 
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