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represented in Bot. Reg. xxx. t. 43, but with the corolla limb merely 
short-toothed or subentire, not definitely lobed. — Vera Cruz, San 
Miguel del Soldado, alt. 1,850 m., April 20, 1899 (C. G. Pringle, no 
7800). 
C. fulvescens. Branches stout; cortex yellowish brown, pruinose 
or glabrate: leaves lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, short-acuminate, 
4 to 7 cm. long, 1 to 2 em. wide, on slender petioles 1 to 2 em. 
long, dark green and minutely puberulent above, yellow-green and 
puberulent beneath: inflorescences on short (1 dm. or less) leafy fulvous 
pubescent branches; the flowers in small axillary clusters or more abun- 
dant at the naked tip; pedicels 3 to 7 mm. long, jointed below the very 
slender neck (3 mm. long) of the calyx: tubular-campanulate calyx 
broadened above, 1.5 to 2 cm. long, glabrous, conspicuously nerved, with 
5 (or 6) unequal deltoid acute ciliate lobes 4 mm. or less in length: 
corolla 2.5 to 8 cm. long, the yellow tube slender, slightly exceeding the 
calyx, clavate above and enlarged at the throat; limb of 5 (or 6) 
elongate-lanceolate strongly involute ascending yellow-brown lobes, short 
pubescent especially within. — Oaxaca, mountains of Telixtlahuaca, 
alt. 2,000 m., Apr. 5, 1895 (LZ. C. Smith, no. 348). Apparently a mem: 
ber of the section Habrothamnus, but with paler flowers than in any — 
described species of that section. oe 
. Bourgeauianum. Branches slender, glabrous, covered with 
a grayish brown cortex: leaves glabrous, entire, oblong-lanceolate e 
to oblong-elliptic, acutish, including the short petiole 4 to 6 cm. longs 
1 to 2.5 em. wide: inflorescence leafy-paniculate, of mostly compound 
sparingly bracteate flexuous or drooping long-peduncled racemes 4.0 
9 em. long: pedicels slender, 3 to 9 mm. long, gradually thickened to 
the glabrous campanulate shallowly 5-cleft calyx (in anthesis 4 to 5 moms 
long, 2 to 3 mm. broad): corolla yellow, glabrous throughout, 1.7 ” 
2 em. long, narrowly funnelform below, gradually broadened at the throat; 
limb with 5 generally broad-flaring somewhat rounded lobes nearly 
0.5 em. long: mature fruit nearly 1 cm. in diameter; calyx becoming : 
broad as long. — Mexico, Valley of Mexico, June 12, 1865 oF 186 
(Bourgeau, no. 57): Oaxaca, Mts. southeast of Miabuatlan, alt- 2,99 
to 3,235 m., 1895 (EZ. W. Nelson, no. 2525). This is perhaps ©. ee 
culare, Pavon, but that species is described as having glandular reddis 
branches, purplish-veined leaves, and acuminate corolla-lobes. ae 
Aster jalapensis. Perennial from slender elongated rootstocks 
stems decumbent at base, 1 to 2.5 dm. high, slender, very leafy, pilose - a 
ines: leaves oblanceolate, bluntly and shortly acuminate, glabrous e e 
