FERNALD. — MEXICAN PLANTS. 569 
to a slender petiole 1.5 to 3.5 cm. long: peduncle filiform, usually curved 
at tip, in fruit 2 to 3.5 em. long: calyx in anthesis 6 mm. long, with 
short narrowly triangular acutish or blunt lobes: corolla 1 to 1.5 em. 
broad, sulphur-yellow, with purple patches at base: fruiting calyx ovate, 
1.5 to 2 cm. long, obscurely 5-angled, the tips connivent: mature berry 
orange, edible.—Coanurta, in shade, Saltillo, Sept. 1898 (Hdw. 
Palmer, no. 332), 
- Rydbergii. Perennial (?): stem slender, tough, much branched, 
finely glandular-puberulent: leaves lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, sub- 
entire or shallowly sinuate-dentate, finely glandular-pubescent on both 
faces, 0.5 to 1.5 cm. long, 3 to 5 mm. broad, acute at tip, tapering un- 
equally at base to slender petioles about half as long: peduncle filiform, 
in fruit becoming 1 to 1.5 em. long: calyx open-campanulate, the lobes 
not connivent at tip, in anthesis 0.5 cm. long, with ovate-lanceolate blunt 
lobes: corolla barely 1 cm. in diameter, yellow, with 5 acute lobes: 
fruiting calyx broadly open-campanulate, 1 cm. long, 5-10-angled, 
Strongly reticulate. — Mexico, Ymala, Sept. 25-Oct. 8, 1891 (Hdw. 
Palmer, no. 1713). Dedicated to Per Axel Rydberg, whose critical 
studies of this genus have greatly cleared the confusion which prevailed 
in the American species, and to whose unique section Crass/foliae the 
present species is an addition. 
Solanum (Anthoresis) plumense. Shrub with cinereous smooth- 
ish bark: young branches finely pulverulent: leaves ovate-lanceolate, 
long-acuminate, acutish or rounded at the base, 1 to 1.8 dm. long, 4 to 6 
em. wide, entire or slightly undulate, minutely cinereous-stellate on both 
faces ; petioles slender, 2 to 5 cm. long: corymb on a long cinereous- 
pulverulent peduncle, in fruit 1 to 1.5 dm. broad, many-flowered: calyx 
mm. high, cinereous-stellate, with 5 ovate-deltoid bluntish lobes: cor- 
olla white, stellate-pulverulent without, 0.5 em. high, 1.5 em. broad, with 
ovate-lanceolate lobes: stamens subequal, oblong, truncate, 2 to 2.5 mm. 
ong: fruit subglobose, sparingly pulverulent, 1 cm. in diameter. — 
Oaxaca, about Pluma, alt. 925 to 1,480 m., March 17, 1895 (4. W. 
Nelson, no. 2493), 
S. (Polymeris) dejectum. Branching a little above the stout 
woody root: stems slender, herbaceous, ascending, decumbent at base, 
branching, cinereous-pilose above with fine stellate hairs: upper leaves 
geminate, unequal, from subreniform to broadly ovate, rounded or taper- 
ing to a bluntish tip, subtruncate or gradually tapering below to a petiole 
1 to 3.5 em. long, finely and closely cinereous-stellate on both faces, 
More strongly so beneath, entire or slightly undulate, 2 to 5 cm, long; 
