-§62 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY. 
keep S. chrysotrichum separate from Persoon’s species. Vera Crvz, 
Cordoba, alt. 830 m., Aug. 20, 1891 (A. E. Seaton, no. 395) ; Jico, July 
16, 1893 (£. W. Nelson, no. 24): Orizaba, Jan. 28, 1894 (Z. W. Nel- 
son, no. 45): Oaxaca, Calderon, alt. 1,850 m., San Juan del Estado, 
June 18, 1894 (LZ. OC. Smith, no. 86); near Reyes, alt. 1,785 to 2,060 
m., Oct. 24, 1894 (H. W. Nelson, no. 1785) ; Curapas, near Tumbala, 
alt. 1,230 to 1,690 m., Oct. 20, 1895 (#. W. Nelson, no. 3331): GuaTe 
MALA, Santa Rosa, alt. 925 m., June, 1892, San Miguel Uspantan, alt. 
1,850 m., Apr., 1892 (Heyde & Lux in exsicc. J. D. Smith, nos. 3441, 
3448): Cosra Rica, Cartago, alt. 1,650 m., Dec., 1887 (Juan J. 
Cooper, in exsicc. J. D. Smith, no. 5870). 
Three species of the subsection Zorvaria, described from Mexico, are 
still obscure and perhaps not recently collected. These are S. amictum, 
Moric. in Dunal 1. c. 263; S. rude-pannum, Dunal, 1. c. 264; S. Lame 
berti, Dunal, 1. c. 268. 
Ill.—SOME UNDESCRIBED MEXICAN PHANEROGAMS 
CHIEFLY LABIATAE AND SOLANACEAE. 
Pelexia Pringlei. Roots clustered, cylindric, whitish, tuberiform, 
0.5 to 1 dm. long: leaves 3, at the base of the bracteate scape, long- 
petioled, with smooth entire oblong to ovate-lanceolate acuminate blades 
8 to 12 cm. long, about 4 cm. wide: scape about 3 dm. high, sparingly 
pubescent above, with about 8 sheathing lanceolate bracts: spike 1 dm. 
long, rather loosely flowered: bracts lance-acuminate, 3 em. long, much 
exceeding the ovary: sepals greenish, lanceolate, acuminate, tw of 
them free and somewhat drooping, 2 cm. long, the others united to form 
a blunt galea; lip short and rounded, exceeded by the beak of the 
stigma ; spur adnate to the ovary: anther ovate, bluntish, 5 m. Jong: 
—Vera Crvz, wooded hills near Jalapa, alt. 1,230 m., April, 1899 
(C. G. Pringle, no. 8122). Habitally resembling P. setacea, Lindl. 
(Neottia calcarata, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 3403), but with adnate spur; and 
shorter blunter sepals galea and lip. 
Scutellaria distans. Stems slender, flexuous, 8 to 4 dm. long; 
somewhat recurved-pilose on the angles; internodes rather long (32. 
em.): leaves firm, sparingly appressed-pubescent or glabrate, a 
shaped, broader than long, upper from deltoid-ovate to rhombic-ovale 
