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ning, covered with fuscous retrorse-hispid pubescence: stip- 
» long ; leaflets oblong-ovate to obovate, mucronate, slightly strigose 
le and hispidulous beneath, 2 to 4 cm. long, the terminal on a 
5 cm.) thrice as long as those of the lateral leaflets: umbels 
ed, the principal peduncles 4 to 6 cm. long, retrorse-hispid, 
the flexuous branches shorter; pedicels 1 to 1.75 cm. long: 
1 to 1.2 cm. long, hispid: corolla violet, 2 to 2.6 cm. long. — 
LO s, Cuernavaca, July 7, 1900 (C. C. Deam, no. 40). Unique in 
tanus gl abrata. Leaves from broad-cuneate to subcordate, 
— 2, indléudeaus, Wats. Peat Am. Acad. xviii. 155, not Mask: & Gal. 
— Coanurra, Monclova, Aug., 1890 (dw. Palmer, no. 1269); Saltillo, 
April 5, 1887 (0. S. Sargent); by streams near Diaz, alt. 216 m., 
April 24, 1900 (0. G. Pringle, no. 8319). Differing much from P. 
Lindeniana of southern Mexico, which has the less lobed leaves perma- 
nently cinereous beneath, and the heads more numerous. 
Croton Patmert, Watson, var. ovalis. Leaves oval, 1.5 to 3 cm. 
broad, not lanceolate, rounded at base: clusters many-flowered. — Nuvo 
Lzon, Monterey, Oct. 11, 1895 (C. & E. Seler, no. 1047). 
coceria, nov. gen. of Zuphorbiaceae (Hippomaneac). Monoecious. 
Staminate flowers in a terminal ament; the individual flowers slightly 
imbedded at base by close dense pubescence. Calyx of staminate flower 
With 2 broad fleshy valvate sepals and a third narrow inconspicuous one. 
Stamen solitary ; filament thick, columnar ; anther 2-celled, longitudinally 
dehiscent, dorsally affixed toward the sheathing tip of the filament. 
Calyx of pistillate flower with three deltoid-subulate teeth and few or no 
intermediate small glands. Ovary depressed-globose, subtrigonous, the 
three l-ovulate cells alternating with the calyx-teeth. Style cylindric, 
erect, equalling the three recurved branches. Fruit a 3-locular capsule. 
Seed pisiform, scarcely carunculate. — Dedicated to Gabriel Alcocer, 
acute observer, teacher in the Escuela Preparatoria, and botanist at the 
Museo Nacional and the Instituto Medico Nacional of Mexico. 
A. Pringlei. Slender shrub, 3 to 5 m. high, the sprawling branches 
herbaceous, striate, the lower nodes remote: leaves pilose or glabrate 
beneath, reniform, acuminate, varying from 0.4 to 1.3 dm. long, and from 
