164 Robinson and Greenman—Menican Plants. 
two-thirds as broad.—Collected by L. C. Smith, at Cuicatlan, 
altitude 2,000 feet, 27 August, 1894 (No. 122). The Zoran- 
thus, which in character most nearly approaches this is Z. incon- 
spicuus Benth., which is said to have ancipital branchlets and 
obovate oblong obtuse obscurely 3-nerved leaves. 
PEDILANTHUS TOMENTELLUS. ‘Tall, 5 to 8 feet in height, rusty 
tomentulose: branches stout, terete : leaves short- -petioled, ovate- 
oblong to oblong- lanceolate, narrowed at both ends, obtusish, 
tomentulose upon both surfaces, 2 inches long, an inch broad; 
cymes terminal, twice dichotomously forked, about 2 inches in 
diameter, outer floral leaves and those at the forks large, bright 
red, sessile, broadly ovate or suborbicular, cordate, shortly acu- 
minate, tomentulose, 12 to 15 lines long, inclosing the smaller inner 
bracts and involucres, thus giving the cyme a somewhat 2-headed 
appearance: involucres half inch in length, tomentulose, un- 
equally 5-cleft at the mouth, the divisions rounded to subtruncate 
with an erose or fimbriated margin, the 3 posterior much smaller, 
linear-oblong ; the appendage deeply 2-cleft; divisions about 34 
ea long, lanceolate-obtuse, thickened at the apex: glands 2 or 
: pedicels of the ¢ flowers glabrous; filaments and anthers 
See pedicel, ovary, and style of the @ flower ferrugineous- 
tomentose; style 24 lines long, the 3 divisions 2-cleft.—Collected 
by C. G. Pringle, in fence-rows, near the City of Oaxaca, August, 
1894 (No. 4912); and by E. W. Nelson, 40 miles northeast of ae 
City of Oaxaca, altitude 5,500 feet (No. aL 210iNy): 
EUPHORBIA MACROPODOIDES. Low, somewhat succulent, 2 to 
5 inches high, springing from a dark rough tuber: the latter at 
first fusiform but becoming much thickened and irregular, 14 
inches in diameter, sending off occasional fibres: stem smooth, 
weak, hollow, pale and leafless below as though subterranean ; 
copiously dichotomously or alternately branched; branches 
crowded, leafy: leaves chiefly alternate (a few sub-opposite), 
slender-petioled; suborbicular to short-oblong, regularly but ob- 
scurely serrulate, rounded both at the apex and at the nearly 
equal base, 2 to 3 lines in diameter, sparingly pubescent or almost 
glabrous, slightly paler beneath; petioles 1 to 12 lines long: 
involucres solitary, axillary, sparingly pubescent, a little over 1 
Jine in diameter, on slender peduncles (3 to 4 lines long); glands 
5, reniform with ovate obtuse appendages; lobes of involucre 
slightly fimbriate: capsule strongly 3-angled, glabrous; styles 
bifid, spreading; seeds ovoid, grayish, a line long.—Collected by 
C. G. Pringle, on the Sierra de San Felipe, Oaxaca, altitude 
10,000 feet, 26 June, 1894 (No. 4713). Habitally and in floral 
characters very near &. macrocarpus Boiss., but with leaves 
rounder, longer-petioled, smoother and serrulate. 
ACALYPHA GLANDULIFERA. A monccious shrub, 5 to 8 feet 
high: branches terete, brownish, finely pubescent : leaves ovate, 
cordate, tipped with a short caudate point, serrate-dentate, 
appressed-pubescent above, more densely pubescent or grayish- 
tomentose beneath, 2 to 3 inches long, two-thirds as broad ; 
