FERNALD, — ACAPULCO PLANTS. 93 
DENTELLA REPENS, Forst. Char. Gen. 26, t. 13. A well known 
species of Southern Asia and Australia. Growing about Acapulco in 
ravines or in moist shaded walls of houses, November, 1894 (no. 65). 
Genipa (?) cinerea. A loosely branching shrub, with the cinereous 
bark minutely pubescent: leaves clustered at the ends of the subhori- 
zontal branches: spines 1 or 2 (or 0) toward the tips of the branches, 
thickish at base, 6 to 9 mm. long: stipules broadly ovate, obtuse, 7 mm. 
long, puberulent without, pilose within, somewhat persistent: leaves 
coriaceous on dilated petioles 2} to 4 cm, long, ovate or obovate, obtusish 
at the tip, acute or obtuse at the base, 5 to 15 cm. long, 4 to 9 em. broad, 
short-pubescent and dull above, cinereous beneath with somewhat woolly 
hairs ; veins prominent beneath : fruit apparently 1-celled, obovate, 7 cm. 
long (including the short oblong beak), 5 cm. broad ; the firm rind 4mm. 
thick, with 6 or 8 prominent longitudinal ribs, and many irregular sec- 
ondary ones, somewhat warty, the outer surface soft-pubescent with short 
cinereous hairs, the inner surface straw-colored and shining: seeds very 
many, brown and shining, oblong or suborbicular, about 1 em. long, thin 
and slightly concave on one side; the thin testa tending to separate on 
the edges from the horny albumen; embryo plane, the terete radicle 
nearly 2 mm. long, the reniform cotyledons about as broad. — Growing 
among other plants for support in the high mountains near Acapulco, 
January, 1895 (no. 348). Doubtfully referred to this genus. The ap- 
parently 1-celled fruit seems to place it with Genipa, but the spinose 
branches and horny albumen are more characteristic of Randia. The 
seeds are apparently good, and flowering plants may possibly be secured 
for further study. 
Montanoa Palmeri. Large upright shrub with habit of the Elder, 
2 to 24m. high: branches terete, fuscous, striate, marked with lenticels, 
glabrous : branchlets tomentulose: leaves ample, opposite, slender-peti- 
oled, rhombic, crenate, 10 or 12 cm. long, 7 or 8 cm. broad, caudate- 
acuminate, with a single strong angle or short lobe on each side, 
5(~7)-nerved from very near the base, roughish above, slightly paler and 
tomentulose beneath ; the uppermost leaves ovate, crenate but not lobed : 
®orymb ample: bracts linear: heads 1 cm. in diameter: scales of in- 
Volucre lance-oblong, acute, silky-villous, 6 mm. long: disk-flowers 10 to 
12, with tube shorter than the throat; ray-flowers 5; rays white, 6 or 
mm. long, two thirds as broad: chaff very woolly and with slightly 
Pungent at length recurved tips. — Collected on hillsides near Acapulco, 
November, 1894 (no. 44), The white flowers have a strong fragrance 
Suggesting apple blossoms. 
