DESCRIPTIONS OF FOUR NEW PLANTS FROM TEXAS AND COLORADO. 



By J. M. HOLZINGKE, 



Claytonla bodlnl sp. hot. Canline leaves two, opposite, terete, flesTiy ; a lanceolate, 

 leaf-like, recurved bract opposite the first pedicel of the raceme; raceme 5- to 10- 

 flowered ; lower pedicels much elongated, 1.3 cm. long ; pedicels in fruit drooping ; 

 fruiting sepals 1.3 cm. long, much surpassing the capsule, narrowly acuminate, 

 persistent, little spreading after antheais; petals longer tlian the 8«pals, nar- 

 rowed upward, but with rounded apex. 



Collected at Hempstead, Texas, in 1892, by J. E. Bodin. 

 Near C. virginica. The corm was not sent with these plants. 



Baptisia lanceolata texana var. nov. Plant smaller than the type; leaflets wider 

 and shorter, 1.6 cm, wide, 4 cm. long, or less; branches and internodes shorter; 

 flowers 2 cm. long. In the typical form of the species the leaflets vary from 1.5 to 

 3 cm. in width, and from 6 to 10 cm. in length, and the flowers are 2.5 cm. or more 

 long. The pubescence, including the ovary, the sessile leaves, and the ncmrly 

 sessile solitary flowers in the axils of the upper leaves of the flowering branches, 

 which are terminated by few-flowered racemes, associate this plant closely with 

 BajHisia lanceoJaia. 



Collected in Texas by G. C. Nealley in 1889 (No. 73). 



Stemodia schottii sp. nov. A low and difi'usely branched perennial herb, 10 to 15 

 cm. high, woody at the base; the entire plant, including branches, leaves, and 

 outside of calyx and corolla, beset with minute, stipitate glands, probably mak- 

 ing the plant viscid when fresh; internodes 1 to 2 cm. long ; leaves sessile, wedge- 

 shaped and slightly auricled at the base, but not connate, the margin above the 

 entire basal part cut into a few coarse serraturos, the apex obtuse ; flowers single 

 in the axils of the upper leaves; pedicels 3 to 5 mm. long, bibracteate under the 

 flower; calyx lobes narrowly linear, about as long as the pedicel, a little longer 

 than the similar bracts; corolla 12 to 14 mm. long, the tube dilated upward, blue 

 at the limb, yellow on the under side and toward the base of the tube, the inside 

 somewhat hairy, the large upper lobe outermost; stamens didynanious, the 

 longer pair reaching the small notches in the limb; anther cells borne apart by 

 a connective fully as long as the anther, becoming peltate after pollination; a 

 rudiment of a fifth stamen present; ovary and style included; stigma single, 

 somewhat dilated; capsule when ripe little shorter than the calyx lobes, splitting 

 into four valves, leaving the pitted placentaj in the axis; seeds small, oval, 0,3 

 mm. long, minutely hispid in lines. 



Habitat, southern Texas, along the Rio Grande. Collected by Dr. A. Schott, at 

 Eio Grande, Texas, in 1853 ; and by G.C. Nealley, at Comstock, Valverde County, 

 Texas, in 1889 (No. 305). Dr.Schott's plant had been distributed as Conoiea 

 muUifida. 



Exi'LANATiON OF PLATE XX.— Plant in flower ; a, flower mnch enlarged, position of stamen* 

 indicated; 6, corolla of ^S. sthottii,- c, corolla of S. durantifolia; a, e, connective and antbor- 

 ceUa; /, seed of S. uchottii; y, seed of S. duraiUifolia; h, leaves of S. tehotiii. 

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