GREENMAN. — MEXICAN PHANEROGAMS. 569 
ate at the base, entire, glabrous and smooth upon either surface, or 
slightly roughened on the prominent midrib and nerves beneath, rather 
strongly reticulately veined, the lower surface somewhat glaucous: in- 
florescence racemose ; racemes axillary, including the peduncle 6 cm. or 
less in length; rhachis, pedicels, and the minute bracts closely ferrugine- 
ous-stellate: flowers subsecund: calyx cupulate, 5 to 6 mm. high, about 
equalling the pedicels, shallowly sinuate, 5-dentate, argenteous-lepidote : 
corolla about 1.5 cm. long; externally and along the margins of the 
upper surfaces of the lobes argenteous-pubescent or somewhat scaly : 
filaments and ovary above stellate-pubescent: fruit not seen. — Collected 
by C. G. Pringle in mountain cafions above Cuernavaca, State of Morelos, 
altitude 2,000 m., 15 May, 1898, no. 6848. 
~ The species is named in honor of Sr. Dr. José Ramirez, Director of 
FE] Instituto Médico Nacional, City of Mexico. — 
MENODORA HELIANTHEMOIDES, Humb. & Bonpl., var. parviflora. 
Stems several, procumbent, more or less branched, 5 to 20 cm. long: 
foliage and inflorescence of the species: calyx 6 to 7 mm. long, usually 
1l-lobed: corolla about 1 cm. long, equally 5-lobed; lobes oblong- 
elliptic, 6 to 7 mm. long, 3 to 4 mm. broad: mature capsule about 6 mm, 
~high, nearly 1 cm. broad. —Collected by C. G. Pringle on bare hills 
above Pachuca, State of Hidalgo, altitude 2,600 m., 30 July, 1898, 
no. 6918. 
A well marked variety, differing from the species chiefly by the smaller 
flowers and less hirsute-pubescent branches. 
Sabbatia arenicola. Annual, glabrous throughout: stems 5 to 10 
em. high, dichotomously much-branched, more or less 4-angled: leaves 
sessile, ovate-oblong to elliptic-oblong, 0.5 to 1.5 em. long, about one 
half as broad, obtuse, entire, thickish, inconspicuously 3—5-nerved: flowers 
terminating the branches, pedunculate: peduncles 0.5 to 15 em. in 
length: calyx campanulate, pentagonal, later becoming turbinate and 
strongly 5-ribbed along the angles; lobes lance-oblong, 5 to 10 mm. 
long, 2 to 4 mm. broad, obtuse, entire: corolla lilac or rose-purple, about — 
1 cm. or more in diameter, yellowish in the throat, persistent; lobes 
obovate-rotund: stamens adnate to the throat of the corolla; filaments 
one half as long as the corolla-lobes: mature capsule 5 to 6 mm. long; 
seeds strongly reticulated. — Collected by C. G. Pringle on damp sands 
of seacoast near Tampico, State of Tamaulipas, 28 April, 1898, no. 
6808. 
A species most nearly related to S. campestris, Nutt., but readily 
distinguished by the less attenuate calyx-lobes and the much smaller 
corolla, 
