apa Edward L. Greene. 
Plant from some unknown station in some part of California, 
collected by George Vasey Jr. in 1875. Peculiar among the small- 
flowered and evergreen group by the glaucescent hue of the upper face 
of its foliage, and especially by its racemose instead of panicled in- 
florescence. 
/62. Vancouveria concolor Greene, spec. nov. 
Planta modice procera, usque 3 dm .alta. Petioli et pedunculus 
1,5 dm longi, vel ultra, sparsim villosi; foliola terminalia usque 5 cm 
longa, 4,5 em lata, basi profunde cordata, margine distincte undulato- 
crenulata, utrinque viridia, subtus aliquantulo pallentia neque glauces- 
centia, textura subcoriacea, per totam hiemem et usque ad florendi 
tempus persistentia. Flores minimi, laxe paniculati; bracteae calicinae 
ovato-lanceolatae, obtusiusculae, basi subsaccatae; ovarium breve, gla- 
berrimum. 
Species known to me in but a single but excellent flowering spe- 
cimen in U. S. Herb., from the coast mountains back of Pescadero, San 
Mateo County California, obtained in May, 1903, and distributed for 
V. parviflora. While the flowers are even smaller than those of that 
species, the plant as whole is among the largest. In the much smaller 
V. parviflora the foliage is very leathery, and whitish beneath with 
bloom, while in V. concolor it is too thin to be called leathery, yet per- 
fectly evergreen, showing no disposition to fade until after the new is 
formed; and on the lower face their is no trace of bloom, but only a 
lighter shade of green. On the characteristics of foliage alone this 
would be a perfectly distinct species, even though it were as small à 
plant as is ordinary and typical V. parviflora. The saccate development 
at the base of the outer bracts of the flower is so pronounced as to 
recall the auricled sepals of certain violets ; but I find faint traces of 
some such gibbosity of the bractlets, or outer sepals, in some other 
members of this group. 
’ 63. Vancouveria picta Greene, spec. nov. 
Planta 2—2,5 dm alta, foliis subeoriaceis, persistentibus, floribus 
paucis, racemosis, pro genere magnis. Foliola 1,5—3 cm longa, circiter 
2,5 cm lata, terminalia supra medium 3-loba, basi subcordata, lateralia 
terminalibus paullulo minora, oblique ovato-cordata, inaequliter dentata, 
dentibus obtusis, omnia primum utrinque laete virentia, serius autem. 
superne inter venas venulasque colore adhuc immutatas atrovirentia et 
ideo distincte variegata, inferne praecipue secus venas scabro-hispidula. 
Flores 15 mm longae; bracteae calicinae anguste ovatae, apice obtusis- 
simae, scariosae, et una cum sepalis omnibus minutissime glanduliferae. 
Ovarium dense glandulosum. 
This fine species is known in but a single but excellent flowering 
specimen obtained in the coast mountains of southern Oregon, May 4, 
1893, by G. A. Holzinger. 
