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108 CONTRIBUTION'S FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 



Krameria glandulosa Rose & Painter. 



Low compact wliruhs, the branches often formhig long weak ^i)hies; the hark on 

 old branches dark or sometimes bleaching out; young brandies t-lothed with long 

 cinereous apprcssed hairs; leaves linear, witli 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 out- 

 line, covere<l with long purple barbed liairs. 



Type U.S. National Herbarium no. 34G914, collected by J. N. Rose near El Paso, 

 Texas, IMay 8, 1899 (no. 4904). This species is distributed from western Texas to 

 Californiaj extending north into Utah and south into Jiorthern Mexico. It lias 

 long been known as K. parvifoUa Bentli., but that si)ecies is confined to southern 

 Lower Calirornia, has much greener foliage, less nuicronate leaves, red branches,' 

 reddish yellow flowers, etc, 



Krameria grayi Rose Sc Painter. 



Krameria canesrens A. Gray, PI Wright. 1: 42. 1852, not Wllld., 1825. 



Krameria lanceolata Torr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. 2: 168. 1828. 



Krameria palmeri Rose, Oontr. Nat. Herb. 1: 304. pL ^7. 1895. 



Kram^eria parvifolia Benthani, Bot. Voy. Sulplu 6. pL t. 1844, 



Krameria paucifolia Rose. 



Krameria caneseem^ paacijolia Rohc, Contr. Nat. Herb. 1: GGl. 1890* 



Krameria pauciflora DC< Prod. 1: H41. 1824. 



Krameria ramosissima (A. Gray) S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 17: 326. 1882, 

 Krameria parvifoUa ramosissuna A. Gray, PI. Wright. 1:4L 1852. 



Krameria revoliata 0. Berg, Bot. Zeit. 14: 751. 1856. 



Krameria secundiflora DC. Prod. 1: H41. 1824. 



Krameria interior Rose & Painter, sp. nov. 



Shrub, much branched, with black ehreddy bark; young branches with cinereous, 

 appresf^ed pubescence; leaves linear, 12 to 20 mm. long, mucronate-tipped; flt)wers 

 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 Ilcrbariuni no. 301352, collected by J. N. Rose ucar San Juan 

 Capistrano, Zacatecas, August 19, 1897 (no. 2441). 



GERANIACEAE. 



THREE NEW SPECIES OF GERANIUM^ 



Geranium bellum Rose, sp. nov. 



Resembling O, ^chicdcamimj but the flowersalways white, the sepals much broader, 

 the outer ones 4 or 5-nerved, and the loaf segments much more obtuse. 



Very common in the high mountains of Central Mexico, frequently collected by 

 the writer and recentl}'^ by Dr. C. G. l*ringk'. 



Type U. S. National Herbarium no. 3953SG, collected by J, N. Hose and Robert 

 Hay on Sierra do Rachuca, Hidal^n>, July 21 and 22, 1901 (no. 5G18). 



Geranium lozani Rose, sp. nov. 



Perennial; stems several, arising from the base or near it, 20 to ;W cm. high, either 

 nearly glabrous or with a rather scanty pubescence consie^tinjjt of rather short reflexed 

 hairs; bayal leaves lon^^-pctioled; bladcri orbicular in outline, 3 to 5-lobed, the loben 

 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 cnu long; sepals broadly lanceolate, 3-nerved, 



