FERNALD, — SOME NEW SPERMATOPHYTES. 503 
ften 3 cm. long, mostly entire: inflorescence 3 to 6 cm. high, a 
mous loose cyme; flowers rather crowded at the tips ; floral leaves 
corolla funnel-form, 6 mm. long, the lobes barely 1 mm. long: 
s and style slightly exserted: fruit hirsute. — MORELOs, mossy 
Ks, Sierra de Tepoxtlan, alt. 2,310 m., Sept. 5, 1900 (C. G. Pringle, 
9454). Resembling V. mexicana, DC., but with hispid stem, nar- 
leaves, and longer corolla. 
belia regalis. Stem tall and stout, softly white-tomentose, almost 
e, above: leaves lanceolate to ovate-oblong, 1 to 2 dm. long, 4 to 
$e beneath; petioles slender, canescent, 2 or 3 cm. long: peduncles 
e-tomentose, axillary, ascending, becoming 5 or 6 cm. long: calyx 
0 canescent, 8 to 12 mm. long, cleft half-way to the base 
) remote lanceolate lobes: corolla 3.5 to 4.5 cm. long, bright red, 
anthers 6 or 7 mm. long, glabrous except at the long-hirsute tip. — 
Oaxaca, Cuicatlan, alt. 555 m., Dec. 2, 1895 (LZ. C. Smith, in exsicc. 
C. Conzatti, no. 105); between Tlacolula and San Dionisio, Chichicapa, 
Jan. 3, 1896, and bed of the river Tehuantepec, below Totolapam, 
Yauhtepec, Jan. 4, 1896 (C. & E. Seler, nos. 1673, 1669). Related to 
L. laxiflora, HBK., but differing from that in its much larger petioled 
leaves and its denser white pubescence. 
L. Nelsonii. Shrub with hard ligneous branches covered by smooth 
gray bark; branchlets bearing irregular areas of leaf-scars ; young leaf- 
bearing branchlets smooth or hispidulous: leaves firm, ovate-lanceolate, 
4 to 7 em. long, 1 or 2 cm. wide, mostly long-acuminate, narrowed below 
” a short petiole, sharply and irregularly serrate, minutely and sparingly 
hispidulous: peduncles hispidulous, 1.5 to 4 cm. long, few at the tips of 
the branches : calyx glabrous, hemispherical, with linear-lanceolate lobes 
3 or 4 mm. long: corolla red, 2.5 to 3 cm. long, glabrous within and with- 
cut: filaments glabrous; anthers 7 mm. long, glabrous except at the bearded 
ip. — Jaxisco, oak woods at 1,380 to 1,694 m. alt., near Huachinango, 
March 4, 1897 (Z. W. Nelson, no. 4009). A unique species in Mexico. 
L. crura, Cav., var. conferta. Coarser and generally more 
branching than the species: racemes densely flowered, not secund, at first 
Short and Capitate, later becoming loose and elongated. — DurANGo, 
abundant by a creek, Dos Cajetes, alt. 2,620 m., Nov., 1896 (Zdw. Palmer, 
no. 810): formerly collected by Gregg in 1848-49, but without record 
of locality (no. 392). 
