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NORTH AMERICAN FAUNA. 



The main figure sbows a cluster of leaves. To the right is a flower 

 cluster and to the left a dissected flower with end and side views of the 

 seed. 



Garcia nutans Rohr. 



Found in Mexico and South America. May 3 to 25, 1897 (I^o. 4228). 

 Croton ciliato-glandulosus Ort. 



May 3 to 25, 1897 (^^^o. 4218). 

 Acalypha sp. 



May 3 to 25, 1897 (No. 4260). 

 Celtis monoica Hemsley. 



May 3 to 25, 1897 (No. 4236). 



Buxus pubescens Greenman. 



Buxus pubescens Greenman, Proc, Amer. Acad. 33 : 481. 1898. 



The original description is as follows: " Shrub or small tree, 4.5 to 

 8 m. high 5 stems and branches covered with a grayish bark; the 

 branchlets and younger shoots provided with a soft, spreading pubes- 

 cence j leaves opposite or occasionally subalternate, sessile or nearly so, 

 rhombic-ovate to oblong-ovate, 2 to 5 cm. long, 1.5 to nearly 3 cm. 

 broad, 3-nerved, obtuse or acntish, mucronate, cuneate at the base, 

 entire, ciliate, soft-pubescent beneath, more sparingly pubescent and 

 glabrate above, showing the reticulate venation on the ujiper surface; 

 inflorescence of axillary short-pedunculate much contracted subrace- 

 mose pubescent clusters; staminate flowers pedicellate; pedicels 3 mm. 

 long, abont twice exceeding the ovate acute bracts; calyx deeply 4- 

 parted; divisions ovate, acute, 2 mm, long, the inner divisions slightly 

 broader than the outer ones; the rudimentary pistil somewhat quatre- 

 foil or X-shaped; fertile flowers about 5 mm. long, single, sessile, 

 terminating the inflorescence; ovary glabrous; fruit not seen. — Col- 

 lected on Maria Madre Island by E. W. Nelson, 3-25 May, 1897, 

 No. 4221. 



"A species apparently endemic in the Tres Marias Islands, and most 

 nearly related to the West Indian B. imlchella Baill." 



Ficus radulina Watson. 



A recent species of Dr. Watson's from northern Mexico. May 3 to 

 25, 1897 (No. 4261). 



Picus fasciculata Watson. 



Only known from western Mexico. May 3 to 25, 1897 (No. 4288). 

 Ficus sp. 



May 3 to 25, 1897 (No. 4182). 

 Myriocarpa longipes Liebm. 



Found in Mexico and Central America. Maj^ 3 to 25, 1897 (No. 4275). 

 Agave sp. 



Six meters high, leaves 9 to 18 dm. long; marginal teeth small, dis- 

 tant; end spine short, stout, pungent; capsules oblong, large, 7 cm. 

 long. 



