574 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY. 
Randia Nelsonii. Stems sparingly armed, covered with a grayish 
or reddish-brown bark, rather numerously dotted with lenticels; the 
young shoots pubescent: leaves thin in texture, obovate or subcuneate, 
1.5 to 8 em. long, two thirds as broad, narrowed at the base into a short 
petiole, usually rounded, but occasionally slightly retuse, obtuse, or even 
short acuminate-apiculate at the apex, soft-pubescent on either surface: 
flowers axillary, solitary, sessile: calyx including the slender spreading 
lobes not exceeding 5 mm. in length, canescent-pubescent especially on 
the tube: corolla including the lobes 2.5 to 3 cm. long; tube about 1.5 cm. 
long, externally puberulent, internally pubescent in the upper half; lobes 
oblong-ovate, obtuse, nearly glabrous. — Collected by E. W. Nelson on 
the way from Juchitan to Chivela, State of Oaxaca, altitude 46 to 277 m. 
1895, no. 2635, 
A species somewhat resembling R. Pringlei, Gray, but readily distin- 
guished from it by the texture of the leaves, the infloresence, the longer 
corolla, and shorter calyx-lobes. 
Eupatorium Conzattii. Glabrous throughout: stems herbaceous, 
ancipitally compressed and subhexagonal, striate, reddish-brown: leaves 
petiolate, oblong-lanceolate, 5 to 15 cm. long, 2 to 6 cm. broad, acuminate, 
acute, obtuse or somewhat rounded at the base and slightly decurrent on 
the (7 to 20 mm. long) petioles, crenate-dentate, distinctly 3-nerved from 
above the base, conspicuously veined, pellucid-punctate: inflorescence 
terminating the stems in a compound pyramidal panicle: heads 8 to 9 mm. 
long, clustered at the tips of the branchlets in threes or fives, sessile 
or short-pedicellate, 5—6-flowered; involucre cylindrical; scales imbri- 
cated, 5—-6-seriate, oblong, obtuse or rounded at the tip, distinctly nerved, 
purplish or stramineous, the outer gradually shorter and darker: flowers 
about 8 mm. long: achenes 4 mm. long, glabrous; pappus equalling the 
corollas. — Collected by Prof. C. Conzatti in humid forests on the Cerro 
del Chiquihuite, Colonia Melchor Ocampo, Cordoba, State of Vera Cruz, 
altitude 1,300 m., 7 December, 1895, no 17. 
This species may be recognized readily by the 3-nerved prominently 
veined pellucid-punctate leaves associated with the few-flowered cy lin- 
drical heads. In general aspect E. Conzattii resembles Z. vanillosmot- 
des, Sch. Bip., but is easily distinguished from it by the venation of the 
leaves. From Z. tepicanum, Hemsl., which is said to have ovate-lance- 
olate pellucid-punctate leaves, our plant differs in having herbaceous 
instead of woody branches. oe 
_Evparorium teproprcryon, Gray, in Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. x): 
420. Excellent specimens of this characteristic species were collected by 
