158 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 
APIACEAE. 
Phellopterus utahensis (Jones) Wooton & Standley. 
Cymopterus montanus purpurascens A, Gray in Ives, Rep. Colo. Riv. 15. 1860. 
Cymopterus utahensis Jones, Proce. Calif. Acad. II. 5: 684, 1895. 
Cymopterus utahensis monocephalus Jones, op. cit. 685. 
Phellopterus purpurascens Coult. & Rose, Contr. U. 8. Nat. Herb. 7: 168. 1900. 
Pseudocymopterus filicinus Wooton & Standley, sp. nov. 
Roots elongated, 15 mm. thick or more; stems very densely clustered, low, 
20 to 25 cm. high, sparingly branched or nearly simple, slender, glabrous; 
basal leaves very numerous, 20 to 25 em. long; petioles slender, 6 to 8 cm. 
long; blades broadly triangular or rhombie in outline, 8 to 14 em. long and 
usually almost as broad, the length of the lower divisions causing the blades 
to appear ternate; most of the blades thrice parted; ultimate segments linear 
or linear-elliptic, bright green, thin, glabrous, very numerous, crowded, short, 
15 mm. long or less; principal divisions of the leaves appearing sessile because 
of the presence of lobes at their bases; peduncles scarcely exceeding the leaves; 
umbels 15 mm. wide or less, dense, the short branches often puberulent; involu- 
cels linear; flowers bright yellow. 
Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, no. 564352, collected on Bear Moun- 
tain near Silver City, Grant County, June 17, 1908, by O. B. Metcalfe (no. 165). 
Another specimen of the same collection is mounted on sheet 560402, 
ADDITIONAL SPECIMENS EXAMINED: Mangas Springs, September 1, 1897, Met- 
calfe; Holts Ranch, July 20, 1900, Wooton; Pinos Altos, 1891, Nealley 46, 
A very handsome plant for the family, its leaves strongly suggesting some 
of the ferns. It is distinguished from our other species by the very numerous 
leaves of peculiar form, and by the small umbels usually but slightly exceeding 
the leaves. 
PRIMULACEAE. 
Steironema validulum Greene, sp. nov. 
Stem 30 to 60 cm. high, robust, whitish and somewhat polished, densely 
leafy and floriferous from below the middle; leaves lanceolate or lance-oblong, 
acute, entire, glabrous, only the short, broad petiole fringed, and that loosely 
and coarsely; flowers copious, rather crowded at the ends of the branches; 
sepals ovate-lanceolate, not indistinctly feather-veined above the middle; seg- 
ments of the corolla nearly orbicular, quite as broad as long, shortly cuspidate- 
acute; capsule globose, much shorter than the calyx. 
Type in the U. 8S. National Herbarium, no. 45865, collected along Oak Creek, 
near Mlagstaff, Arizona, in July, 1884, by J. G. Lemmon and wife. The best 
specimens are from northern Arizona collected by MacDougal, Lemmon, and 
others. One sheet of not very good specimens from McKinneys Park in the 
Mogollon Mountains, collected by O. B. Metcalfe, seems to represents the species 
in New Mexico. 
OLEACEAE. 
Menodora laevis Wooton & Standley, sp. nov. 
A low perennial about 25 em. high, from a thick, woody root; stems slender, 
woody below, very numerous, simple below, corymbosely branched above, bright 
green and shining, glabrous, angled; leaves obovate to lanceolate, 15 mm. long 
or less, obtuse or acute, contracted at the base into a short petiole, glabrous; 
pedicels about 5 mm. long, glabrous; tube of the calyx 1.5 mm. high, the 7 to 
