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Physalis puberula. Annual?; puberulent throughout wich fine \ 
appressed or incurved white hairs: branches slender, terete below, angu- 
late above: leaves ovate, subentire or slightly sinuate, 3 to 7.5 cm, long, 
1.5 to 4 cm. broad, acuminate at tip, rounded or subcordate at. base; 
petioles slender, 1 to 4 cm. long: peduncle 0.5 to 1 cm. long, straight but 
soon recurved: calyx in anthesis 6 to 8 mm. long, the deltoid-lanceolate 
acuminate lobes equalling the tube: corolla 1.5 to 2.5 cm. broad, sulphur- \ 
yellow with brown patches at centre: anthers yellowish: fruiting calyx , — 
ovate, 2.5 to 3 cm. long, obscurely 5-angled, slightly sunken at base, the \ 4 
connivent deltoid-lanceolate teeth 0.7 to 1 em. long. — Mexico, Sacro 
Monte, Amecameca, Aug. 31, 1900 (0. G. Pringle, no. 9147) ; Guade- 
loupe, Aug. 9, 1865-6 (Bourgeau, no. 724): Duranao, Durango, 1896 
(Edw. Palmer, no. 848). Somewhat resembling the northern P. phila-— 
delphica, Lam., but with persistent close pubescence and more ovate leaves. 
Mr. Pringle’s plant was accidentally distributed as P. Pringlei (with 
incorrect authority), a name belonging to a very different plant with long 
glandular pubescence. 
SoLANUM ROSTRATUM, Dun., var. subintegrum. Leaves sparingly 
pubescent above, shallowly sinuate-lobed, not pinnatifid: otherwise as in 
the species. — Mrxico, Tacuba, valley of Mexico, Sept. 18, 1900 (C0. G. 
Pringle, no. 9268). 
Ruellia (Physiruellia) cupheoides. Slender shrub, 1 to 1.5 m. 
high, the quadrangular verrucose branches covered with gray bark, the 
younger parts pilose: leaves elliptic-ovate or ovate-oblong, 3 to 5 cm. 
long, short-acuminate, pilose, on slender petioles 0.5-1 cm. long: peduncles 
axillary, divergent, slender, pilose and verrucose, 2 to 6 cm. long, termi- 
nated by a single flower or branching and bearing 2 flowers; bracts 2, 
linear-spatulate, in age becoming 1.5 cm. long: calyx pilose, 1.5 to 2 cm. 
long, cleft two-thirds to the base into lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate acu- 
minate ciliate lobes: corolla tubular, 3.5 cm. long, yellow or reddish, 
with short erect blunt greenish lobes ; the slightly narrowed tube shorter 
than the calyx: stamens subequal, included ; filaments glabrous ; anthers 
linear-oblong, 4 or 5 mm. long: style bearded ; capsule oblong-obovoid, 
short-pointed, equalling the calyx, glabrous ; seeds four, thin, ovate, 0.5 cm. 
long, dark, with narrow pale margin. — Guerrero, limestone mountains 
above Iguala, alt. 1,230 m., Sept. 27, 1900 (0. G. Pringle, no. 8409). . 
Valeriana retrorsa. Slendér, 2 to 4 dm. high, from a small oblong 
tuber; stem densely retrorse-hispid below, glabrous above: leaves 3 to 
5m. long, the basal short-petioled, the upper sessile ; leaflets 3 to 5 pairs, 
linear-lanceolate, blunt, the lowest pair minute, the terminal leaflet much 
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