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Una nueva especie de Styrax en México. 
“Tree, 9 to 12 m. liigli: branchlets finely ferrugineus-stellate, 
forrowed: leaves altérnate, petiolate, oblong-lanceolate, 1 to 
1,50 dm. long. 3-5 to 5 cm. broad, acuminate, acate or obtusish, 
cunéate at tlie base, entire, glabraus and srnooth upon eitber 
surface, or slightly rougbened on the proininent midrib and 
nerves beneath, rather strongly reticulately veined, the lower 
surface some what glaucous: inflorescence racémose; racemes 
axillary, including the peduncle 6 cm. or less in lenght; racbis, 
pedicels, and tbe minute bractes closely ferrugineous-stellate: 
flowers susecund : calix cupulate, 5 to 6 mrn. higli, about equall- 
ing the pedicels, shalowly sinuate, 5-dentate, argenteous- 
lepidote: corola about 1,5 cm. long; externallv, and long the 
margins of the upper surfaces of tbe lobes argenteous-pubes- 
cent or somewhat scalv: filaments and ovary above stellate- 
pubescent. The fruit, vrhich emerges from the persistent cup- 
shaped calix is oblong, 1 to 1,5 cm. in length. 6 to 7 mm. thick 
palé green and closely stellate-lepidote over the slightly corru- 
gated surface. — Collected bv C. G. Pringle in mountain canons 
abrue Cuernavaca, State of Morelos, altitude 2,000 m.; 15 
May, 1898. No. 6,848. The species is named in honor of Sr. Dr. 
