82 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY. 
Acalypha oreopola. Stem branched, purplish, bifarious-puberu- 
lent : leaves petiolate, ovate, 1.5 to 5 cm. long, 1 to 3 cm. broad, acumi- 
nate, acute, shallowly serrate-dentate, short-cordate, glabrous upon both 
surfaces, pellucid-punctate, 3-7-nerved; petioles 0.5 to 3 cm. long, canal- 
iculate, crisp-puberulent, purplish: inflorescence in terminal or ‘axillary 
rather remotely flowered glabrous spikes: bracts of the fertile flowers 
2 to 3 mm. long, glabrous and pellucid-punctate, 3—6-lobed with triangu- 
lar-acute lobes, 1—3-flowered: calyx deeply 3-parted; divisions ovate, 
acute, sparingly pubescent: ovary hirsute above; styles pectinately 
divided: capsule triangularly and obtusely 3-lobed, about 2 mm. long, 
muricately hispid above: seeds about 1 mm. long, smooth. — Mexico. 
te of Guerrero: mountains near Iguala, 10 October, 1900, C. G. 
Pringle, no. 9265 (hb. Gr.). 
JATROPHA Pseupo-Curcas, Muell. Arg. in Linnea, xxxiv. 208, and 
in DC. Prodr. xv. 2, 1080; Hemsl. Biol. Cent.-Am. Bot. iii. 108. 
Specimens agreeing well with the description of this species were col- 
lected by C. Conzatti and V. Gonzdlez at Cercanias de Oaxaca, State of 
Oaxaca, altitude 1550 m., June, 1901, no. 1207 (hb. Gr.). The leaves 
in the specimens secured c Sefiors Conzatti and Gonzalez are somewhat 
larger than is ascribed to the species by Mueller, having in many cases 
leaves fully 2 dm. long and nearly or quite as broad. The fruit charac- 
ters, which seem not to have been recorded hitherto, may be here pre: 
sented, as follows: capsule oblong, 2 to 2.5 cm. long, 1 to 1.5 cm. in 
diameter, abruptly short-acuminate, subtriangular, ek and gla- 
brous: seed oblong-elliptic, rather conspicuously carunculate, amon 
and shining, 
Manihot caudata, A small tree, 4 to 5 m. high: stem covered 
with a brown or grayish-brown cortex: branches leafy at the summits: 
leaves alternate, petiolate, ovate-rotund in general outline, cordate, pal- 
mately and deeply 3-7-lobed, pale green and glabrous on both surfaces ; 
lobes or divisions obovate to oblong, 3 to 9 cm. long, 2 to 4.5 cm. broad, 
abruptly and conspicuously caudate-acuminate, entire ; the outer lower 
lobes more or less oblique and usually horizontally spreading ; petioles 
8 to 14 cm. long, terete or slightly canaliculate, and as well as the 
peduncles, pedicels and lower leaf-surface near the nerves more or less 
glaucous: racemes short, axillary, 5 to 6 cm. long in the fruiting stages 
pedicels 1.5 to 3 em. long: capsule 18 to 22 mm. in length : seeds oblong, 
flattened, 12 to 15 mm. long, 8 to 12 mm. broad, more or less mottled 
with brown or brownish-black subhorizontal markings ; caruncle broader 
: than long. — Manihot 3 .Nateon, Proc. Amer. Acad. xxi. 440. — 
