Vermischte neue Diagnosen 221 
China occidentalis. Yunnan; in pratis alpinis 10 — 12 000 
p. S- m. 
Habit of Cathcartia villosa but almost glabrous, with rather fewer 
radical leawes, and purplish flowers. The ripe capsule is not yet known. 
LVII. Vermischte neue Diagnosen. 
136. Staelia uruguaya Arech. in An. Mus. Nac. Montevideo, VI. (Fl. 
Urug., III, 1) (1906), p. 51. Est. XII. 
Herbacea perennis, caulibus basi lignescentibus subglabris teretibus 
superius albido sublanuginoides ramosis. Foliis linearlanceolatis, basi 
angustatis sessilibus subscabrosis vel glabris. Vagina stipularia brev- 
puberula dentibus 2—6 eam subaequantibus ornata. Inflorescentia termii 
nali capitata globosa. Ovario obverse conico glabro; sepalis 2, subulatis 
1—1,5 mm longis, denticulis nonnullis basi parvis interjectis. Corolla 
tubuloso-infundibiliforme 6 mm + longa, lacinias ovatas, obtusas, extus 
parce pilosulas. Staminibus lacinis aequantibus, antheris oblongis exsertis. 
Stylo corolla aequilongo apice bifido. Capsula ignota. 
Uruguay: Vive en campos de Vera, cerca de Mercedes. Florece 
en febrero. 
137. Viola Painteri Rose et House in Proc. Unit. St. Nat. Museum, 
XXIX (1905), p. 443, pl. IV. 
Caulescent; apparently glabrous but more or less puberulent as seen 
under the lens; stems 2 to 5 from a slender, vertical, perennial root, 
spreading or ascending, 6 to 20 cm long; stem leaves 3 to 8, ovate, 1,5 
to 3,5 cm long, shallowly cordate, acute, dark green, paler beneath, the 
margins irregularly but not conspicuously crenate-dentate, petioles longer 
than the blades, the lower ones longest; root leaves few or none, small, 
rounded-ovate, crenate; stipules somewhat toothed, ovate or ovate-lanceo- 
late, obtuse or acute, 4,5 to 8 mm long; pedicels filiform, equaling or 
exceeding the blades, 3 to 9 cm long, bibracteolate above the middle 
with linear bractlets; sepals glabrous, linear-lanceolate, acute, 6 to 7 mm 
long, 1 to 1,5 mm broad at the base, the auricles very short, rounded 
or subtruncate; petals bright yellow, veined and the two upper strongly 
tinged with reddish-brown, equal. 8 to 10 mm long, the odd petal broadly 
spatulate and truncate or somewhat emarginate, the paired petals obovate- 
lanceolate, the lateral pair with truneate ends, the upper pair with rounded 
ends; capsules subglobose-ovoid, 8 to 9 mm long, slightly exceeding the 
spreading sepals. 
Specimens examined: 
Mexico: Hidalgo: Sierra de Pachuca, Rose € Painter, September 1, 
1903 (no. 6731) [sheet no. 450286 in the U. S. National Herbarium (type)); 
Rose € Hay, 1901 (no. 5580); Rose & Hough, 1899 (no. 4470). -- 
Mexico: Sierra de las Cruces, under firs, 3030 meters, C. G. Pringle, 
