180 Agnes Chase. 
1350. Galium Mairei Levl., nov. spec. ; 
Planta circa 40 cm longa, perennis, repens, grisea villosa; folia, 
4-verticillata ovata obtusa vel obtusata conspicue 3-nervata, nervis 
hirsutis; flores albo-grisei in paniculam elongatam corymbis multis et 
confertis formatam dispositi; petala ovata acutata 3-nervia, conspicue 
ciliata. 
Yun-Nan: Paturages des montagnes a Tong-Tchouan, 2600 m, 
juillet 1911 (E. E. Maire). 
XLVI. Agnes Chase, Panicearum genera ac species 
aliter disposita. IV. 
(Ex: Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, XXIV [1911], pp, 103—160 !.) 
31. Valota Hitchcockii A. Chase, l. c.. p. 110. — Plants perennial, 
in dense clumps; culms erect, very slender, 30 to 50 cm high, sparingly 
branching from the lower nodes, glabrous, usually very leafy, the lower 
nodes ascending-villous, the upper glabrous; sheaths about as long as 
the internodes or overlapping, the lower silky-villous, the middle and 
upper with a few, scattered, delicate hairs or glabrous or silky-ciliate 
only; ligule membranaceous, scarcely 0,5 mm long, continued as a brown 
scarious margin down the sheath; blades ascending or erect, flat, 2 t0 
4,5 cm long, 2 to 2,5 mm wide, scarcely narrowed to the base, glabrous 
on the lower surface, minutely puberulent or glabrous on the upper, 
usually with a few long hairs near the base, and with a thin, white, 
cartilaginous margin; panicles consisting of few to several ascending 
racemes rather distant along a slender, glabrous axis, the rachises 
slender, 3-angled, the spikelets mostly in pairs, one short-pediceled, the 
other on a pedicel about as long as the lower spikelet, thus forming 
slender racemes, the spikelets scarcely imbricated; spikelets whitish 0 
purplish, 2,5 to nearly 3 mm long, 0,7 mm wide, or with the hairs 
expanded about 1,2 mm wide; first glume less than !/, the length of the 
spikelet, obtuse, glabrous; second glume and sterile lemma equal, 
strongly 7- to 9-nerved, the internerves and margins densely silky hairy. 
the hairs at first appressed, at maturity spreading and matted, the spike 
lets often matted together by the tangled hairs; fruit 2,1 to 2,2 mm long, 
0,6 mm wide, abruptly short-acuminate, brown, the broad, white, Byè 
line margins of the lemma nearly covering the palea except at the base. 
— Type collected June 24, 1910, on dry prairie soil, San Antonio, Texas: 
by A. S. Hitchcock (no. 5329). — Valota Hitchcockii is most nearly 
related to V. saccharata (Buckl) Chase, from which it is distinguished 
by its lower stature, short blades, short racemes of smaller spikelets. 
1) Cf. Rep. IV, p. 29—30, V, p. 305—300, IX, p. ap A 
