
          a more densely branched specimen
 than the rest. But I think they
 all show that they have been
 slips taken from an upright and 
 branched shrub. The lower end
 of the New Mexican specimen is
 quite woody, and has evidently
 been taken from the side of a 
 larger branch or stem being in
 shape somewhat thus.


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 In all these specimens
 the broad leaves, the short erect
 pedicels, which are axillary almost
 all along the last year's wood,
 and the other distinctions, are 
 as given in your letter. I am
 now inclined to think my plant
 is a distinct species though a 
 nearly allied one. But even if
 only a variety of P. myrsinitis
 it is a very marked one,
 and I think worthy of a description.
 As to names there are a 
        