Krameria speciebus novis aucta. 253 



Type U. S. National Herbarium no. 395386, collected by J. N. Rose 

 and Robert Hay on Sierra de Pachuca, Hidalgo, July 21 and 22, 1901 

 (no. 5618). 



2. Geranium lozani Rose, 1. c, p. 108. 



Perennial; stems several, arising from the base or near it, 20 to 

 30 cm high, either nearly glabrous or with a rather scanty pubescence 

 consisting of rather short reflexed hairs; basal leaves long-petioled: 

 blades orbicular in outline, 3 to 5-lobed, the lobes usually 3-cleft and 

 strongly toothed, coriaceous in texture, scarcely if at all paler beneath, 

 a little pubescent on both surfaces; peduncle extending beyond the leaves, 

 2-flowered; pedicels elongated, 5 to 7 cm long; sepals broadly lanceolate, 

 3-nerved, inner ones ciliate: petals white, veined with red, 14 mm long; 

 fruit narrow. 3 cm long, pubescent. 



U. S. National Herbarium no. 461465. collected by C. G. Pringle 

 and P. Lozano near Buena Vista Station, Hidalgo, altitude. 2550 meters. 

 1904 (no. 8994). 



3 Geranium pringlei Rose, 1. c, p. 109. 



Perennial; stems erect, about 30 cm high, very pilose, especially at 

 base, the upper part of the stem and inflorescence with numerous purple 

 stipitate glands; basal leaves long-petioled, white-pilose, especially below 

 the blade, deeply lobed, each lobe cleft and sharply toothed; stem leaves 

 somewhat similar but shorter-petioled ; peduncles usually 2-flowered; 

 pedicels short, 1 to 2 cm long, densely glandular-pubescent; sepals 

 lanceolate, faintly 3-nerved, the inner ones ciliate; petals blue, large; fruit 

 linear, pubescent, with stipitate glands. 



Type U. S. National Herbarium no. 461451, collected by C. G. Pringle 

 in meadows, Cuyamaloya Station, in eastern Hidalgo, altitude. 2490 

 meters, August 2, 1904 (no. 8978). 



LX1. J. N. Rose, Krameria speciebus novis aucta. 



(Ex: J. N. Rose, Contributions of Mexican and Central American plants, 

 no. 5, in Contr. Unit. St. Nat. Herb., X, pt. 3 [1906], pp. 107—108.) 



1. Krameria diffusa Rose & Painter, 1. c, p. 107. 



Perennial with long diffuse herbaceous branches and scant pube- 

 scence; leaves linear, 1 to 2 cm long, acute, becoming glabrate; in- 

 florescence racemose: peduncles 10 to 15 mm long, bibracteate above 

 the middle; flowers large, purple; fruit small, globular, with a few short 

 stout spines, these either naked or with very short retrorse hairs. 



Type U. S. National Herbarium no. 452798 (Rose, no. 9311), appa- 

 rently common on the west coast of Mexico, extending from Sinaloa 



