Ammeno style protruding almost 3/4in more. Lip 3/4 in deep and 7/8 in broad, cleft at apex, edges shallowly lobed with distinct rounded short lobe at each side of base. Pubescent or like a back of upper lobe. Hairs inside. Upper lip notched. Pedicel to 1/2 in hence shorter than Calyx Anterior portion Concaves de- flexed, linear, rounded but not expanded at end. N.B. B.M.J.C.P.5640 "S. coccinea, L has flor varying to white." Closely This spec corresponds with S. coccinea ascense. B.M.J.C.P. v B.F. 93B. 326 very likely is this. 3-26-29 Ammone squamata L. "Sugar Apple" by Mr. Allen Smith. Montrose Rosemont Cheveled tree not 5 ft high (had borne one fr.) collected lv. p.137 v B.M.J.C.P.294 at Simple, lvs on wand-like branches looking almost as this compound, the branch having marked zig-zog effect. lf oblong to 5 1/2 x 2 in. entire dull above, beneath globate with few brownish slant bars or veins Petole 1/2 in. 3-26-29 Poinsettia pulcherrima, Urban, p.218 Rosemont "double form". Red floral bracts well v spinously developed and lasting much longer than the 'single forms' from which they had fallen by the end of January. Fl involucres often not formed but when they are, are incomplete.