254 J- N. Rose. 



to Guerrero. Specimens examined: Sinaloa: Ymala, Dr. E. Palmer, 

 September 25 to October 8,. 1891 (no. 1671). Morelos: Near Puenta de 

 Ixtla, J. N. Rose and Robert Hay, July 4, 1901 (no. 5326). Guerrero: 

 Near Iguala, J. N. Rose and Jos. H. Painter, August 10 and 12, 1905 

 (no. 9311). 



2. Krameria glandulosa Rose & Painter, 1. c, p. 108. 

 Low compact shrubs, the branches often forming long weak spines ;. 

 the bark on old branches dark or sometimes bleaching out; young 

 branches clothed with long cinereous appressed hairs; leaves linear, with 

 cinereous pubescence, tipped by a long deciduous mucro; peduncles and 

 calyx and often the branches and leaves covered with black glandular 

 hairs; sepals and petals purplish; fruit flattened, ovate in outline, covered 

 with long purple barbed hairs. 



Type U. S. National Herbarium no. 346914, collected by J. N. Rose 

 near El Paso, Texas, May 8, 1899 (no. 4904). This species is distri- 

 buted from western Texas to California, extending north into Utah and 

 south into northern Mexico. It has long been known as K. parvifolia 

 Benth., but that species is confined to southern Lower California, has 

 much greener foliage, less mucronate leaves, red branches, reddish yellow 

 flowers, etc. 



3. Krameria grayi Rose & Painter, 1. c, p. 108. 



Krameria canescens A. Gray, PI. Wright, I, 42, 1852, not Willd., 1825. 



4. Krameria paucifolia Rose, 1. c. p. 108. 



Krameria canescens paucifolia Rose, Contr. Nat. Herb., I, 661; 1890. 



5. Krameria interior Rose & Painter, 1. c, p. 108. 



Shrub, much branched, with black shreddy bark; young branches 

 with cinereous, appressed pubescence ; leaves linear, 12 to 20 mm long, 

 mucronate- tipped; flowers not seen; fruiting peduncles 15 mm or less 

 long, bibracteate; fruit globular, the body 8 mm long; spines with retrorse 

 hairs along the upper half. 



Type U. S. National Herbarium no. 301352, collected by J. N. Rose 

 near San Juan Capistrano, Zacatecas, August 19, 1897 (no. 2441). 



LXU. J. N. Rose, Oxalidaceae novae mexicanae. 



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

 ». 5, in fontr. Unit. St. Nat. Herb., X, pt. 3 [1906], pp. 109—117, pi. XXXV.> 



1. lonoxalis alpina Rose. 1. c. p. 110. 



Bulbs solitary; leaves radical, several; petioles slender, glabrous; 

 leaflets 3. broadly cuneate, strongly notched, glabrous, pale beneath; 

 peduncle long, longer than the leaves, glabrous, 2 or 3-flowered; in- 

 volucral bracts small, slightly pubescent; pedicels long (2,5 to 5 cm) and 

 slender, somewhat unequal; sepals lanceolate, 4 mm long, obtuse or 

 acutish, glabrous with scarious margins; petals white, large, 20 mm 



