574 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 
9. ANDROCERA Nutt. Burrazo sur. 
Prickly herb 30 cm. high or less, with spreading branches; leaves once or twice 
pinnatifid, with broad undulate or sinuate lobes; calyx spreading, 5-lobed, closely 
investing the fruit; corolla rotate, 5-angled; stamens 5, anthers unequal, tapering 
upward, opening by terminal pores; berry dry, the seeds flattened. 
KEY TO THE SPECIES. 
Flowers yellow; pubescence stellate..............2.22+-0eeeee- 1. A. rostrata. 
Flowers purple; pubescence mostly glandular................-. 2. A. novomexicana. 
1. Androcera rostrata (Dunal) Rydb. Bull. Torrey Club 33: 150. 1906. 
Solanum rostratum Dunal, Sol. Syn. 234. pl. 24. 1818. 
Solanum heterandrum Pursh, Fl. Amer. Sept. 156. pl. 7. 1814. 
Androcera lobata Nutt. Gen. Pl. 1: 129. 1818. 
TyPE Locauity: Described from cultivated plants. 
RANGE: Wyoming and North Dakota to Texas and Mexico. 
New Mexico: Farmington; Santa Ie; Las Vegas; Pecos; Rio Frisco; Kingston; 
Cliff; Cloverdale; Angus; Roswell; Albert; Elida; Nara Visa. Plains, in the Upper 
Sonoran Zone. 
2. Androcera novomexicana (Bartlett) Woot. & Standl. Contr. U. 8. Nat. Herb. 
16: 170. 1913. 
Solanum heterodoxum novomexicanum Bartlett, Proc. Amer. Acad. 44: 628. 1909. 
Tyre Locauity: New Mexico. Type collected by Fendler (no. 673). 
RANGE: New Mexico. 
New Mexico: San Juan; Las Vegas; Pecos; Santa Fe; Fort Bayard; Santa Rita. 
Plains and low hills, in the Upper Sonoran Zone. 
10. CHAMAESARACHA A. Gray. 
Low, perennial, diffusely spreading herbs with entire or pinnatifid leaves and 
flowers in axillary few-flowered clusters; calyx campanulate, 5-lobed, somewhat 
enlarged at maturity, closely investing the fruit, open at the mouth, neither ribbed 
nor angled; corolla rotate, ochroleucous, often purple-tinged; anthers oblong, open- 
ing by longitudinal slits; seeds reniform, flattened, rugose-favose or punctate; berry 
pulpy. 
KEY TO THE SPECIES. 
Plants villous, densely viscid............... eee eee w cee ec eeececcee 1. C. conioides. 
Plants sparingly stellate-pubescent, scarcely if at all viscid........ 2. C. coronopus. 
1. Chamaesaracha conioides (Moric.) Britton, Mem. Torrey Club 5: 287. 1895. 
Solanum conioides Moric.; Dunal in DC, Prodr, 181: 64. 1852. 
Withania ? sordida Dunal, op. cit. 64. 
Chamaesaracha sordida A. Gray in Brewer & Wats. Bot. Calif. 1: 540. 1876. 
Type LocaLity: Between Laredo and San Antonio, Texas. 
Rance: California and Kansas to Mexico and Texas. 
New Mexico: Tucumcari; Hatchet Ranch; Kingston; Dog Spring; Organ Moun- 
tains; Tortugas Mountain; Gray; Knowles; Lincoln; Buchanan; mountains west of 
San Antonio; Lakewood. Plains and low hills, in the Lower and Upper Sonoran 
zones. ’ 
2. Chamaesaracha coronopus (Dunal) A. Gray in Brewer & Wats. Bot. Calif. 1: 
540. 1876. 
Solanum coronopus Dunal in DC, Prodr, 181: 64, 1852. 
Type Locatity: Between Laredo and San Antonio, Texas. 
RanGE: California, Utah, and Kansas to Mexico. 
New Mexico: Nearly throughout the State. Dry plains and low hills, in the 
Lower and Upper Sonoran zones. 
