806 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY. 
Crusea coccinea, DC., var. pubescens. Leaves ovate, acute, 
often short-acuminate, covered above with a scattered hirsute pubescence: 
corolla-tube, especially the lower slender portion, pubescent on the outer 
surface. — Collected by E. W. Nelson, on the west slope of Mt. Zempo- 
altepec, altitude 2,100 to 2,400 m., 5-13 July, 1894, no. 581; also on 
the northwestern slope of the same mountain, altitude 2,400 to 3,000 m., 
10 July, 1894, no. 699. Differs from the species proper by the smaller 
leaves, the pubescence of the same, and by the pubescent corolla. 
Crusea cruciata, Watson, var. villosior. Stem #to 1 m. in 
height: leaves lanceolate, acuminate, 9 to 12 cm. long, 1 to 2 cm. broad; 
floral leaves villous-pubescent on the lower surface near the base: flowers 
white to purple. — Collected by Dr. E. Palmer, at Jalisco, 1886, no. 
901, and by C. G. Pringle, near Cuernavaca, altitude 1,600 m., 17 Sep- 
tember, 1896, nos. 6508, 7225. With habit, laciniate stipules, and 
essential characters of the type, but somewhat more robust, and with a 
rather striking villous pubescence on the broadened basilar portion of the 
floral leaves. 
CrUSEA VILLOSA, Watson, founded upon Pringle’s no. 2448 from 
Jalisco, collected in 1890, also Pringle’s no. 3257 from the same locality, 
collected in 1890 and distributed under the above name, may be referred 
to Crusea Palmeri, Gray. Notwithstanding the somewhat remote locali- 
ties, both of Mr. Pringle’s numbers are identical with Dr. Gray’s typé, 
collected by Dr. Edward Palmer in Southwestern Chihuahua. 
Galium pretermissum. Perennial: the slender woody roots 
containing a red coloring matter: stems 8 to 44 dm. long, slender, weak; 
decumbent, purplish at the base, green above, glabrous or hispidulous 02 
the angles: leaves in fours, sessile, linear-lanceolate, 8 to 14 mm. long, 
1 to 3 mm. broad, acute, margin revolute (hispidulous on the older leaves), 
upper surface usually hispidulous, shining, glabrous beneath: flowers in 
subtrichotomous cymes: pedicels 3 to 10 mm. long, glabrous or minutely 
hispidulous: corolla rotate, yellow, 4(-3)-lobed; lobes ovate-oblong, ob- 
tuse or short-acuminate and obtusish: fruit long-hirsute with uncinate 
hairs. — Collected by C. G. Pringle, in pine woods, base of Sierra de 
Ajusco, altitude 2,460 m., 19 September, 1896, no. 6596. A species with 
the habit of G. Mexicanum, HBK., but with leaves in fours, not put 
gent-acuminate, and with much longer uncinate hairs on the fruit. ; 
VisurnuM ELATUM, Benth. Excellent flowering and fruiting spec’ 
mens, apparently belonging to this species, have been secured by “4” 
Pringle, and the following additional characters may be noted. Drupe 
ovoid, 12 to 14 mm. long, black, covered with a blue bloom; stone flat, 
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