ROBINSON. — JAEGERIA AND RUSSELIA. $21 
* * * Stems sub-terete, ni striate-angulate. 
» + Branches of the inflorescence ps ; liege loosely flowered: 
leaves large, thickish, veiny, ig aa beneat 
| 1. R. rotunpirotta, Cav. Icon. v. 9 (1799), t. 415. — Near Aca- 
Roe Mexico. Dr. Palmer’s no. 509 must be of this — 
bn ad : 
* ++ Branches of the glomerate pointe 2 cymose, many-flowered : leaves 
{ thin, acute or acutish: stem gla 8. 
12: R. murtrrtora, Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 1528 (1813).— 2. pani- 
© culata, Mart. & Gal. Bull. Acad. Brux. xii. pt. 2. 19 (1845), appears to 
be merely a verticillate-leaved form of this species. 
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“— + + Inflorescences cymose, very short, ate on saapenege branches : 
oN flowers very small: leaves bullate, obtuse: stem pubesce 
45. R. tepicensis. Probably suffruticose; stems subterete, wteiaitis 
angulate with many fine ribs, subappressed-pubescent, internodes con- 
siderably exceeding the ternate broadly ovate cordate petiolate obtuse 
crenate-dentate leaves; these membranaceous, glabrous and with im- 
pressed veins, strigillose on the veins and resinous-punctate on the 
surface beneath, 3 cm. long, 2.4 em. broad; petioles 3 mm. long, ap- 
pressed- -pubescent : Aorifers branches (1 to 1.5 dm, long) mostly verti- 
cillate toward the ends of the stems: bracts ovate, petiolate, crenulate, 
small but exceeding the short peduncles (2 to 3 mm. in length); pedicels 
and subulate braet e pubescent : calyx-lobes ovate, acuminate to slender 
recurved tips, pubs erulent near the middle, thin at the margin, 2 m 
long: corolla 6 to y mim. long, bearded near the base within, externally 
_ glabrous lobes spleen .ctpeale ovoid, nearly spherical, glabrous, 
m. in Jength, slightly grooved between the carpels; 
Collected at Zopelote, Tepic, Mexico, 
00 m., by Frank H. Lamb, no. 978. 
‘is ee from RP. sarmentosa, 
