Mirabilis longipes (Standl.) Standl.

Allionia longipes Standley, sp. nov
Allionia melanotricha Standley, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 13: 409, in part. 1911.
Plants about a meter high, copiously branched below, the branches stout, ascending, glaucescent, bifariously puberulent, the internodes elongate; petioles slender, 2-5.5 cm. long, puberulent; leaf-blades deltoid-cordate, 2-5.5 cm. long, 2-4.5 cm. wide, deeply cordate at the base and subdecurrent, acute or attenuate at the apex, entire, thin, bright-green, minutely puberulent or glabrate, ciliolate; inflorescence cymose-paniculate, about 30 cm. long, copiously branched, the branches chiefly alternate, stout, viscid-pilose with fulvous hairs, very sparsely bracteate; involucres numerous, 3-flowered, slenderpedunculate, 4-5 mm. long at anthesis and 7-8 mm. in fruit, densely fulvous-pilose, the lobes short, deltoid-ovate or roundedovate, acute or acutish, at least in fruit; perianth about 12 mm. long, sparsely pilose; stamens 3, short-exserted ; fruit obovoid, 5 mm. long, brownish-olivaceous, densely short-pilose, the angles broad,, smooth or slightly rugulose, the sides rugulose; seed obovoid, 3 mm. long, palebrown.
Type collected in the vicinity of Durango, State of Durango, in 1896, Edward Palmer 261 (U. S. Nat. Herb, no, 304437).

Allionia longipes Standley, sp. nov
Allionia melanotricha Standley, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 13: 409, in part. 1911.
Plants about a meter high, copiously branched below, the branches stout, ascending, glaucescent, bifariously puberulent, the internodes elongate; petioles slender, 2-5.5 cm. long, puberulent; leaf -blades deltoid-cordate, 2-5.5 cm. long, 2-4.5 cm. wide, deeply cordate at the base and subdecurrent, acute or attenuate at the apex, entire, thin, bright-green, minutely puberulent or glabrate, ciliolate; inflorescence cymose-paniculate, about 30 cm. long, copiously branched, the branches chiefly alternate, stout, viscid-pilose with fulvous hairs, very sparsely bracteate; involucres numerous, 3-fl.owered, slender-pedunculate, 4-5 mm. long at anthesis and 7-8 mm. in fruit, densely fulvous-pilose, the lobes short, deltoid-ovate or rounded-ovate, acute or acutish, at least in fruit; perianth about 12 mm. long, sparsely pilose; stamens 3, short-exserted ; fruit obovoid, 5 mm. long, brownish-olivaceous, densely short-pilose, the angles broad, smooth or slightly rugulose, the sides rugulose; seed obovoid, 3 mm. long, palebrown.
Type collected in the vicinity of Durango, State of Durango, in 1896, Edward Palmer 261 (U. S. Nat, Herb. wo. 304437).