NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS 
ON NEW OR LITTLE KNOWN SPECIES. 
BY JARED G. SMITH. 
Srpa PauMeEr!I, Baker? 
Slender, erect or ascending perennial, 4 to 6 dm. high, 
sparingly branched from the base, the stems cinereous 
stellate pubescent; leaves remote, subcordate at the base, 
obtuse at the apex, from ovate-triangular to triangu- 
lar oblong, usually with rounded basal lobes, serrate 
or entire, sparsely stellate-pubescent above, densely stel- 
late-tomentose below, the blade usually longer than the 
petiole; stipules subulate; peduncles slender, axillary, 3 to 
5 cm. long, geniculate above; calyx tube terete; sepals 
ovate, abruptly acute, stellate-canescent, about 4 mm. long, 
a third as long as the yellow or purple petals; carpels 7 to 
9, dehiscent, sparsely pubescent on the back, the sides 
latticed; seed obliquely obovate-triangular, glandular punc- 
tate, the hilum obovate, smooth. Collected by G. C. Nealley, 
near Corpus Christi, Texas, in the summer of 1894, and 
reported by him as being rare.— Plate 48. 
This form approaches S. Palmeri, Baker, Journ. of 
Botany, 30, 295 (1892), a species of section Malvinda, 
founded on Palmer’s No. 1038, and may not be distinct from 
it. I have not had the opportunity of examining authentic 
specimens, but Nealley’s plant does not fully agree with 
Baker’s description. 
Fueosra Drummonpi, Gray. Pl. Wright. 1, 23 (1852). 
This plant, of which habit sketch and detail drawings are 
appended, was collected by G. C. Nealley, near Corpus 
Christi, Texas, in 1894. The locality is re-established 
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