420 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 
1. Abutilon parvulum A. Gray, Pl. Wright. 1: 21. 1852. 
Type Locautry: “‘Calcareous hills of the San Felipe and the San Pedro Rivers,” 
Texas. 
Rance: Western Texas to Arizona, south into Mexico. 
New Mexico: Mangas Springs; Anton Chico; west of Roswell; Hondo Hill; Filmore 
Canyon. Dry hills, in the Upper Sonoran Zone. 
2. Abutilon malacum §. Wats. Proc. Amer. Acad. 21: 446, 1886. 
Type Locatiry: Wilson County, western Texas. 
Rance: Western Texas to southern New Mexico. 
New Mexico: Tortugas Mountain. Dry hills, in the Lower Sonoran Zone, 
A coarse, yellow-flowered plant, | meter high or less, with large velvety leaves. 
In New Mexico it is known from but a single locality and is certainly rare, although 
it may be expected in the mountains of the southwestern corner. 
3. Abutilon texense Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. Amer, 1: 231. 1838. 
TYPE Locauity: Texas. . 
RANGE: Central Texas to southern New Mexico. 
New Mexico: Hillsboro; Dog Spring. Upper Sonoran Zone. 
8. PHYMOSIA Desv. 
Tall herbaceous perennials, appearing glabrous, but pubescent; leaves large, 3 to 
7-cleft; flowers in interrupted spikes terminating the branches, large, rose or white, 
3 to 5 cm. in diameter, carpels hispid or hirsute and with fine stellate pubescence, 
usually 3-seeded, not reticulated on the sides. 
1. Phymosia grandiflora Rydb. Bull. Torrey Club 40: 60. 1913. 
Sphaeralcea grandiflora Rydb. Bull. Torrey Club 81: 565, 1904. 
TYPE LocaALtty: Mesa Verde, Colorado. 
RanGE: Colorado and northern New Mexico. 
New Mexico: Sandia Mountains. 
9. SPHAERALCEA &t. Hil. 
Low or tall, coarse, perennial herbs with stellate pubescence; leaves petioled, 
various in outline, simple or dissected; flowers in small axillary clusters or by reduc- 
tion of the leaves forming narrow crowded panicles; pedicels usually short; calyx 
subtended by 2 or 3 bracts; fruit a capsule, consisting of numerous 2-ovuled, 1 or 
2-seeded, 1l-celled carpels. 
KEY TO THE SPECIES. 
Leaves digitately 5-parted. _ 
Flowers solitary, on long slender pedicels-.................... 1. S. tenutpes. 
Flowers fascicled, on short stout pedicels...................... 2. S. pedata. 
Leaves 3-parted or simple, never 5-parted. 
Fruit depressed-globose; upper ovule usually not maturing; 
mature carpels mostly reniform, completely deciduous 
from the axis. 
Leaves round-ovate, simple, or with 3 rounded lobes, ob- 
tUS@. 2 2.2... ee eee eee eee ee eee eee eee ee 3. S. marginata. 
Leaves subhastate, lanceolate, or pinnatifid, acute. 
Flowers 15 to 20 mm. long; leaves subhastate, silvery- 
stellate...........-...20..00.000020000222000202- 4, 8. marti. 
Flowers 10 to 12 mm. long; leaves various. 
Pubescence very dense, fine, silvery, giving the 
plants a whitish appearance; leaves pinna- 
tifid. 2... eee eee ee 5. S. glabrescens, 
