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into a petiole (10 to 16 mm. long), punctate especially on the under sur- 
face, dark green above, paler beneath, glandular below on either side of 
the midrib at the base of the blade with 1 to 2 or 3 oblong-elliptic glands: 
inflorescence in terminal and axillary nodding spike-like racemes, 4} to 
11 em. long; bracts minute, equal to or exceeding the pedicels, the latter 
about 1 mm. long, and jointed just below the flowers: calyx 2 mm. long, 
subtruncate, 5-nerved, somewhat 5-angled and ciliate: corolla about 
5mm. in length, tubular, 5-lobed, white or pinkish ; tube broad, glabrous 
on the outer surface below, puberulent above, pubescent in the throat ; 
lobes broad, oblong or rounded, pubescent on either surface: style 
glabrous. — Collected by C. G. Pringle, in the mountains near Lake 
Chapala, Jalisco, 16 December, 1889, no. 2442. Flowers fragrant. Dis- 
tributed as Gonzalea glabra, Wats., n. sp., Proc. Am. Acad. xxv. 152. 
Citharexylum ovatifolium. A soft woody shrub, 2 to 3 m. in 
height: branches tetragonal, minutely striate, pubescent: leaves mem- 
branaceous, ovate-acuminate, 8 to 12 cm. long, 34 to 6$ cm. broad, ob- 
tuse, submucronate, abruptly narrowed at the base into a more or less 
winged pubescent petiole, entire or irregularly crenate-dentate, ciliate, 
pubescent upon either surface, dark green above, slightly paler beneath, 
usually provided with one or more large glands on the lower surface at 
the base of the blade on either side of the midrib: inflorescence in pubes- 
cent spike-like nodding or flexuous racemes, 5 to 12 cm. long, terminating 
the branches and branchlets: bracts about 1 mm. long, minute, subulate, 
*qualling or slightly exceeding the short pubescent pedicels: calyx 3mm. 
long, subtruncate or minutely and irregularly 5-dentate, ciliate, 5-nerved, 
and somewhat d-angled, pubescent on the outer surface: corolla about 
7 mm. long, tubular, 5-lobed, white; tube broad, about 4 mm. long, - 
glabrous on the outer surface, densely pilose-pubescent in the throat; 
lobes subrotund, glabrous on either surface, strongly ciliate: style 
glabrous, — Collected by C. G. Pringle, in a wet wooded barranca 
above Cuernavaca, altitude 2,000 m., August-September, 1896, no. 6540. 
is species has much in common with the imperfectly known O. Sessei, 
D. Don, but as the latter species is so very obscure it seems best to regard 
tT. Pringle’s plant as distinct, especially as it does not accord in all details 
with the meagre description of Don’s species. : 
Solanum (Morella) defiexum. An annual erect or ascending 
herb becoming slightly woody at the base: roots fibrous: stems 1 to 
bi dm. high, simple or much branched, terete, covered especially above 
With a Spreading hirsute pubescence: leaves simple, solitary or in pairs 
of subequal size, 2 to 6 cm. long, one half as broad, ovate, acute or 
