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cm. long, 1 to 1.5 cm. broad, obtuse, crenate-serrate, cuneate at the base 
into a flattish or narrowly winged ciliate petiole ; petioles of the lower 
leaves nearly or quite equalling the blade, more or less continuous about 
the stem: verticillasters in the axils of the upper leaves, about 6- 
flowered: flowers 1 em. long: calyx pubescent with spreading stiff 
hairs’: corolla nearly twice exceeding the calyx, conspicuously 2-lipped ; 
the 3-lobulate lower lip exceeding the galeate externally pubescent upper 
lip. — Mexico. State of Chihuahua: in the Sierra Madre, near Colonia 
Garcia, altitude 2450 m., 17 July, 1899, Townsend & Barber, no. 128 
(hb. Gr.). 
A species resembling in general habit S. agraria, Cham. & Schlecht., 
from which, however, it is readily distinguished by the oblong cuneate 
leaves, and by the mostly spreading not reflexed hairs of the stem. 
CapsicuM FRUTESCENS, Linn., var. lanicaule. Stems more or less 
densely lanate-villous-pubescent : leaves ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 3 to 
8 em. long, 1 to 3.5 cm. broad, mostly villous-pubescent especially along 
the midrib and lateral veins beneath ; petioles 0.5 to 3 cm. long : flowers 
solitary, axillary, nodding in anthesis : fruit oblong or oblong-lanceolate, 
to 3 cm. long, 1 to 1.2 cm.in diameter. — Mrxico. State of Oaxaca: 
altitude 1550 m., 5 September, 1899, V. Gonzdlez, no. 975 (hb. Gr.). 
State of Jalisco: near Guadalajara, September, 1886, Dr. Hdward 
Palmer, nos. 639, 640, 642 (hb. Gr.). 
Sefior Gonzilez’s specimens, on account of the copious pubescence of 
stem and foliage, seem at first sight to represent a distinct species, but 
the examination of a series of specimens representing Capsicum fru- 
tescens, L., shows very clearly that this species is sometimes rather con- 
spicuously pubescent, hence it has seemed best for the present at least to 
regard the Gonzdlez plant as a variety to which may be referred, as 
somewhat less pubescent forms, the above numbers collected by Dr. 
Palmer. 
Bracuistus Prineier, Watson, Proc. Am. Acad. xxv.159. Hereto 
should be referred specimens collected at Santa Rosa, Department ae 
Santa Rosa, Guatemala, altitude about 1000 m., Heyde & Luz, nos. 3436, 
4545 (exsic. John Donnell Smith), distributed as “ Capsicum frutescens, 
L.” The Guatemalan specimens here cited are somewhat less pubescent 
than in typical B. Pringle’, but in all essential characters they accord 
well with the original or type of that species. From descriptions of 
B. diversifolius, Miers, the B. Pringlei must be very closely related if 
indeed it does not represent the same species ; but until a comparison 
_ of the original specimens of the two species can be made, it would not 
