. (2 to 5 mm. long), glabrous or puberulent on the upper surface, 
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agrees well with the original description. It therefore seems best to 
regard B. Pringle, Wats., as synonymous with B. comosa, Nees. 
To this species also may be referred Dr. Coulter’s no. 1193; and 
Pringle’s plant, collected in Tamasopa Cafion, State of San Luis Potosi, 
10 June, 1890, no. 3074, distributed as B. Pringlei, Wats. 
Beloperone Nelsonii. Erect: stems branching, subterete, covered 
with a spreading or slightly reflexed grayish pubescence: leaves ovate- 
lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 5 to 10 em. long, 2 to 4 cm. broad, 
obtuse at the apex, entire, narrowed below into a slender petiole, densely 
lineolate above, pubescent on either surface, especially on the veils, 
later becoming glabrous; petioles about 2 cm. in length: inflorescence 
terminating the stem and branches in rather close bracteate spikes : 
bracts oblong or obovate: bracteoles linear, nearly 1 cm. long, exceeding 
the calyx: calyx about 5 mm. long, deeply 5-parted; divisions nearly 
equal, lanceolate, acute, ciliate: corolla 2 to 2.5 cm. long; tube exceed- 
ing the limb; upper lip shortly 2-lobed, the lower more deeply 3-lobed, 
rather broad, somewhat plaited in the throat: capsule 10 to 12 mm. 
long, pubescent. —Collected by E. W. Nelson on Maria Madre Island 
of the Tres Marias group of islands, 3-25 May, 1897, no. 4246. 
A species closely resembling B. comosa, Nees, but with a much 
shorter corolla, and broader lower lip. The leaves are also somewhat 
larger, longer petioled and much less pubescent. It may be that further 
material will prove this to be a variety of B. comosa, Nees, but, ast 
material at hand shows no sign of intergradation, it seems best for the 
present at least to regard Mr. Nelson’s plant as a distinct species. 
PorTLANDIA PTEROSPERMA, Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. xxiv. 52. 
cellent fruiting specimens were collected by Mr. E. W. Nelson 0” 
Maria Madre Island, 3-25 May, 1897, no. 4211, but for the slightly 
thicker leaves, correspond accurately with the type of the above species: 
Mr. Nelson’s specimens show well the oblong-obovoid longitudinally 
ribbed and conspicuously lenticulated septicidally dehiscent (2.5 cm. long) 
ca 
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ule. 
ib ibceis floribunda. Shrub or small tree, 3 to 5 m. high: 
branches covered with a reddish brown bark, and dotted with numerous 
small lenticels : the ultimate branches finely pubescent : leaves petiolate, 
ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 2 to 5 em. long, 1 to 2 cm. broad, acuminate, 
acute, entire, ciliate-scabrous, narrowed below into a pubescent aes 
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glabrous except on the midrib toward the base: stipules (1 or 2) linear- 
a -subulate, 2 to 3 mm. long: inflorescence of compound many flowe 
