284 Aven Nelson et P. B. Kennedy. 
could see from the material at our disposal. Styles and stamens 2. Grain 
not seen. 
Yandama, North-western New South Wales (A. W. Mullen; 
April, 1906). 
The grass differs in so many more or less important points from 
Rottboellia in the sense in which Bentham defined the genus, that we 
place it only with great hesitation in that genus. 
LXIX. Species novae ex „Great Basin“ (Nevada et California). 
ab Aven Nelson et P. B. Kennedy descriptae. 
(Ex: Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, XIX [1906], pp. 155—158.) 
1. Sophia paradisa A. Nelson et P. B. Kennedy, l. c., p. 155. 
Winter annual, 1—2 dm high, branched from the base; stems glan- 
dularpubescent; leaves densely and finely stellate-pubescent, silver-gray, 
pinnate, 1—3 cm long; leaflets divided into rounded or linear lobes; 
flowers light-yellow, minute, clustered at the summit of the fruiting 
racemes; mature capsules almost glabrous, 4mm long and 1,5 mm wide, 
abruptly attenuate towards the base and apex; pedicels slightly longer, 
glandularpubescent; seeds oblong, light-brown, less than 1 mm long, 
glabrous. 
Allied to Sophia incisa, Found abundantly on dry, light colored 
adobe soil in the desert flats of Paradise Valley, Humboldt County, 
Nevada, April 30, 1905. P. B. Kennedy. No. 1059 (type). A con- 
siderable proportion of the specimens seen were stunted by a white rust, 
Albugo. 
2. Sphaerostigma orthocarpa A. Nelson et P. B. Kennedy, 1. c., p. 155. 
Plant 1—3 dm high, branched from the base, hirsute-pubescent 
throughout; stems several, rather stout, purplish below; lateral branches 
slender; leaves variable, from 1—15 cm long; margins unevenly undulate- 
dentate; apex acute or obtuse, attenuate to a sessile base; flowers termina- 
ting the rather long, bracted, fruiting racemes; calyx-lobes oblong-lanceo- 
late, 4 mm long; corolla yellowish from the bud, becoming pink and 
purple with age; petals suborbicular 5 mm long and 4 mm wide; capsules 
narrowly linear. 3—5 cm long, attenuate at base, straight or slightly 
eurved: seeds 1 mm, long. 
Allied to S. Lemmon A. Nels. 
Collected on the shore of Pyramid Lake, Washoe County, Nevada, 
May 19, 1905, No. 1015a (type) P. B. Kennedy. 
3. Godetia latifolia A. Nelson et P. B. Kennedy, 1. c., p. 156. 
Whole plant sparsely pubescent; stems purplish, 1—3 dm high, 
erect, slender; leaves ovate-lanceolate, acute, entire, the largest 2,5 cm 
long, attenuate at the base into a petiole 8 mm long; calyx-lobes free. 
