54 Rhodora [Marcu 
4. SaBATIA obtusata n. sp., perennis valde stolonifera caule 
erecto leviter biangulato simplice vel subsimplice 2-2.5 dm. alto uni- 
vel bi-floro; foliis infimis oblanceolatis vel spathulatis subacutis 2.5- 
3.5 em. longis 3-7 mm. latis; caulinis tenuibus ca. 12-jugis oblongis 
vel ovalibus apice rotundatis sessilibus non amplectentibus 1.5-2.5 
cm. longis 3.5-10 mm. latis internodia subaequantibus, costa basi 
incrassata albida venis lateralibus 1-2-jugis inconspicuis; pedunculis 
1-3.5 em. longis; calycis tubulo subscarioso ca. 20-nervio 1.5-2.5 mm. 
alto, laciniis 9-10 lineari-lanceolatis acutis trinerviis planis sursum 
paullum ampliatis 5-11 mm. longis 0.6-1.6 mm. latis; corollae laciniis 
9-10 cuneato-lanceolatis obtusis roseis basi macula aurea rubro- 
marginata praeditis 1.2-2.2 em. longis 3-6 mm. latis; stylo 2 mm. 
longo; stigmatibus 6 mm. longis. 
Erect stoloniferous perennial, usually simple, one- or two-flowered, 
2-2.5 dm. high; lowest leaves oblanceolate to spatulate, subacute, 
2.5-3.5 cm. long, 3-7 mm. broad; stem-leaves thin, about 12 pairs, 
oblong or oval, rounded at tip, sessile but not clasping, about equalling 
the internodes, 1.5-2.5 cm. long, 3.5-10 mm. broad, the midrib whitish 
and conspicuous, the 1-2 pairs of lateral veins obscure; peduncles 
1-3.5 em. long; calyx-tube subscarious, about 20-nerved, 1.5-2.5 mm. 
high; the segments 9-10, lance-linear, acute, slightly broadened 
upwardly, flat, 3-nerved, 5-11 mm. long, 0.6-1.6 mm. broad; corolla- 
lobes 9-10, wedge-lanceolate, obtuse, rose-color with a red-bordered 
golden eye, 1.2-2 cm. long, 3-6 mm. broad; style 2 mm. long; 
stigmas 6 mm. long. 
Grorata: shallow water near Lumber City, 18 July 1905, Biltmore 
Herbarium (TYPE SHEET in British Museum). 
A rather strongly marked new Sabatia, distinguished at once by its 
very short round-tipped leaves about equalling the internodes; related 
to S. dodecandra (L.) BSP., from which it differs in its leaves and lower 
simple freely stoloniferous stem; and to S. foliosa Fernald (S. Harperi 
Small), which has lanceolate to lance-oblong, subobtuse and slightly 
amplexicaul leaves, 2.5-6 em. long, and considerably longer calyx- 
lobes (mostly 1.2-2 cm. long). 
5. SABATIA capitata (Raf.) n. comb. (S. Boykinit Gray).— Pleienta 
capitata Raf. Fl. Tell. iii. 30 (1836). Sabbatia Boykinii Gray in 
Chapm. Fl. S. E. U. S. ed. 1. 354 (1860). Lapithea Boykinii (Gray) 
Small, Fl. S. E. U. S. ed. 1. 929 (1903).— Rafinesque's Pleienta capitata, 
described from the Unaka and Cherokee Mountains along the Ten- 
nessee-North Carolina border, close to Whitfield County, Georgia, 
where Sabatia Boykinii has been collected, is evidently identical with 
the latter species. Rafinesque’s description, published in the rare 
Flora Telluriana, may be quoted: “498. Pleienta capitata Raf. caule 
