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MEMOIRS OF THE XEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN 



acutish at the summit, finely and sharply serrate, subtrinerved, 

 the secondaries numerous, erect or suberect. Flowers axillary 

 and in a short few-flowered raceme at the summit, the pedicels 

 filiform, about 8 mm. long. Sepals 5, 1 cm. long, 3 mm. wide, 

 lanceolate or oblanceolate, acuminate, acutish, pilose. Petals 

 about half as long as the sepals. Stamens numerous, two thirds 

 the length of the sepals, exceeding the style. Ovary oblong, 

 about as long as the stout style, obtusely angled. Capsule 4 cm. 

 long, 3 or 4 mm. broad, linear, lightly curved, abruptly short- 

 mueronate, the spreading pedicel one fourth the length of the 

 capsule. 



Near Reyes, 1,000 feet, 0. E. White, October 28, 1921 {no. 

 1517). "An herb, 5 to 10 inches high, in damp bog, in big 

 swamp." Also collected by the author, in the same locality, 

 growing in shallow water, in sunshine {no. 1445). 



Malvaceae 

 Abutilon laxum 



More or less hairy throughout, in varying form. Branchlets 

 elongate, slender, ascending. Petioles to 5 cm. long, slender, 

 short pilose. Blades 5 to 15 cm. long, 4 to 10 cm. wide, ovate, 

 cordate, acuminate and acute, dentate with short or nearly obso- 

 lete broad teeth, thin, rather harsh to the touch, deep-green and 

 scabrellate above, pale-green and stellate-scurfy beneath, mostly 

 7-nerved, the nerves slender, sharply prominent beneath, con- 

 nected by a loose reticulation. Flowers crowded at the ends of 

 the branchlets, the pedicels slender, about 3 cm. long in flower, 

 5 or 6 cm. in fruit. Calyx ferruginous. 1 cm. or more in length, 

 divided al)out two thirds of the length, thick, the lobes ovate, 

 mucronate. Corolla about twice the length of the calyx, rose- 

 colored. Carpels 10, nearly 1.5 cm. long, truncate, obtuse, to- 

 mentellate. 



Along the Bopi River, 3,000 feet, H. H. Rushy, September 

 11, 1921 {)io. 658). The same collected in Bolivia by M. Bang, 

 without number or date. Of this Mr. E. G. Baker says that it is 

 nearly allied to '^Sida glohifern Hooker," Avhich is Ahutilon. 



Wissadula filipes 



Densely and closely stellate-tomeiitellate, the lower leaf-sur- 

 faces white, or the younger ones yellowish. Branches slender 



