WOOTON AND STANDLEY—NEW PLANTS FROM NEW MEXICO. 129 
shorter claws, as well as of a deeper color, the inflorescence villous instead of 
glabrous, and the capsules smaller and on much shorter stipes. 
HYDRANGEACEAE. 
Fendlera falcata Thornber, sp. nov. 
An erect shrub, 1.5 to 2 meters tall, with grayish, furrowed bark; twigs of 
one year’s growth glabrous or nearly so, somewhat shining, reddish; leaves 15 
to 40 mm. long, 5 to 7 mm. wide, nearly sessile, tapering at the base and apex, 
lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, more or less falcate, shining above and below, 
glabrous, or sparsely strigose beneath, the margins revolute; sepals, pedicels, and 
hypanthium glabrous or slightly pubescent, glabrate at maturity; sepals lanceo- 
late to ovate-lanceolate, 8 to 10 mm. long, about three-fifths the length of the 
capsule; petals 17 to 22 mm, long, 11 to 18 mm. wide, tapering into a long claw, 
the margins erose; anthers about 4 mm. long; capsules 11 to 16 mm. long, 7 to 
8S mm. in diameter, conical, very gradually tapering upward. 
Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, no. 686760, collected in the Tunitcha 
Mountains on the Navajo Reservation in August, 1911, by Paul C. Standley 
(no. 7806). 
ADDITIONAL SPECIMENS EXAMINED: CoLorapo—Dolores, alt. 2,200 meters, June 
15, 1902, Crandall; Cerro Summit, alt. 2,420 meters, 1901, Baker 165; Bayfield, 
1907, Cary 174; Mancos, 1898, Baker 393. Aritzona—Carrizo Mountains, 1911, 
Standley 7406; Fort Apache, July 28, 1905, Thornber. New Mexico—Without 
locality, 1869, Palmer; Cedar Hill, alt. 1,900 meters, 1911, Standley 7971. 
Fendlera tomentella Thornber, sp. nov. 
Shrub 1 to 1.5 meters high, with dark gray, furrowed branches, and some- 
what shining, reddish or straw colored, puberulent twigs, the short flowering 
ones with 2 to 5 pairs of leaves; leaves lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, 15 to 
80 mm. long, 4 to 7 mm. wide, dull green and hispid or hispidulous above, strongly 
8-nerved beneath and strigose and tomentose, appearing hoary; calyx, hypan- 
thium, and pedicels permanently hirsute, the lanceolate sepals extending to 
beyond the middle of the capsule; flowers not seen; capsules 10 to 12 mm. long, 
6 to 6.5 mm. thick, gradually tapering above. 
Type in the U. S., National Herbarium, no. 497677, collected in the canyon of 
the Blue River near Coopers Ranch, Graham County, Arizona, in 1905, by 
Walter Hough (no. 470). 
ADDITIONAL SPECIMENS EXAMINED: New Mexico-——-Mangas Springs, alt. 1,450 
meters, 1903, Metcalfe 89; Hurrah Creek, September 25, 1853; Bigelow ; Embudo, 
alt. 1,760 meters, 1897, Heller 8513; Animas Mountains, alt. 2,000 meters, 1908, 
Goldman 1385. CoLtorapo—lLos Pinos, 1899, Baker 367. Arizona—Santa Cata- 
lina Mountains, alt. 900 meters, August 20, 1903, Jones. 
Fendlerella cymosa Greene, sp. nov. 
A much branched, rather erect, low shrub, 40 to 60 em. high, with scaly root- 
stocks; young stems grayish or nearly white; whole plant more or less strigil- 
lose with nearly colorless hairs, some of those on the lower surfaces of the 
leaves with white, papilliform bases; leaves numerous, nearly sessile, narrowly 
lanceolate to oblanceolate, 10 to 25 mm, long, 1.5 to 5 mm. wide, 3-nerved, acute, 
with ciliate, slightly revolute margins; cymes several to many-flowered, termi- 
nating the leafy branches; hypanthium turbinate, pubescent like the lanceolate 
or oblong-lanceolate sepals, these 4 mm. long; petals white, oblong-elliptic, 3 to 4 
mm. long; filaments of the shorter stamens dilated to near the base, those of 
the longer ones with a well-defined, constricted neck above; capsules narrowly 
elongated. 
