GREENMAN. — PHANEROGAMS. 477 
ovate or slightly obovate, 4 to 7 em. long, 2 to 3.5 cm. broad, abruptly 
acuminate to an obtusish apex, entire or somewhat repand, narrowed at 
the base to a short petiole, glabrous above except on the puberulent mid- 
tib, pubescent below, the midrib and veins prominent on the lower sur- 
face, nerves not strongly reticulated: petioles barely 3 mm. in length: 
ochre about 2 mm. long, deciduous: fruiting calyx 2.5 cm. long; tube 
4 mm. long; inner divisions of the calyx small, linear, acute: akene nar- 
Towly ovate-acuminate, glabrous below, above bearing a trace of pubes- 
cence on the acute angles, the lower portion triangularly 3-lobed with 
shallowly furrowed lobes and rather deeply sulcate faces. — Collected by 
C. G. Pringle in Tomellin Cafion, Oaxaca, altitude 925 m., 7 December, 
1895, no. 7008. 
A species in general aspect similar to 2. fusca, Fern., but with differ- 
ently outlined and less reticulately veined leaves, smaller fruiting calyx, 
and essentially glabrous akene. 
Tesine discolor. Shrub: stems terete, covered with a grayish 
bark and often dotted with numerous lenticels, the ultimate branches 
finely tomentose, somewhat compressed at the nodes: leaves opposite, 
petiolate, ovate-lanceolate, elliptic-lanceolate, or sometimes ovate, acute, 
1 to 5 em. long, 5 to 20 mm. broad, usually strongly discolorous, finely 
pubescent or even tomentose and granulose above, densely soft-tomentose 
beneath, acute or obtusish at the apex, margin entire, narrowed at the 
base into a short pubescent petiole; petioles 3 to 6 mm. long: inflores- 
cence of rather small panicles terminating the branches; the branches of 
the panicles bearing pedicelled spikelets with tomentose rhachises ; bracts 
Scarions, broadly 1-nerved, ovate, obtusish: flowers dicecious: staminate 
flowers about 2 mm. long; divisions of the calyx scarious, oblong-elliptic, 
obtuse ; stamens united at the base into a short cup, the 5 stamin 
‘we thirds as long as the filaments, hirtellous; the rudimentary ovary 
With sessile shortly 2-lobed stigmas: pistillate flowers about 2 mm. long; 
calyx divisions elliptic-lanceolate, acutish, distinctly 1-nerved, with scari- 
ous margins ; ovary glabrous; styles short with 2 (to 3) long slender 
stigmas. — Collected by C. G. Pringle and C. Conzatti in Santa Catarina 
Cafion, altitude 1000 m., 4 July, 1897, Conzatti’s no. 231; also by C. G. 
"ingle in Tomellin Cafion, altitude 1230 m., 4 July, 1897, no. 6713, 
and in the same locality, altitude 1000 m., 17 May, 1894, no. 5787. 
latter number, although differing slightly in foliar characters, has 
a ce floral structure, and is said by Mr. Pringle to be the same as 
Batis MaRitima, L. Syst. Nat. ed. 10, 1176. This species, not 
