122 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 
(Muhl.) Vail flowering more than a month earlier in the 
same locality. 
Specimens ecamined: Texas: Lindale, Reverchon 3175, 
May 15, 1902, type; 3016, June 9, 1902; Big Sandy, 
Reverchon 2658, May 19, 1901. 
TRAGIA NIGRICANS N. sp. 
Perennial, bright green, smooth and glabrous, turning 
blackish in drying. Stem slender, erect, 2.5-4.5 cm. tall, 
simple or few-branched ; leaves thickish, oblong or oblong- 
lanceolate, deeply dentate or laciniate, sometimes lobed, 
acute at the apex and base, short-petioled, or the upper- 
most sessile, glabrous beneath, sparingly pubescent on the 
midrib above, and copiously ciliate with long white hairs, 
2.5-7.5 cm. long, and .5-2.5 cm. wide; flowers in lateral, 
short, spike-like racemes from the upper axils; staminate 
flowers with a 3-lobed calyx and 3 stamens; pistillate flow- 
ers one or two at the base of the racemes, and with a 6- 
lobed calyx; capsule short-pedicelled, somewhat depressed, 
8-10 mm. in diameter, densely pubescent with long white 
hairs; seeds subglobose, 3 mm. long, smooth. 
Rocky woods on the Upper Hondo, central Texas. 
Summer. 
This very distinct and peculiar 7ragia is not referable 
to any species known to me, but is most nearly related to 
T.urens L., from which it differs in being smooth, and 
in having few-flowered racemes, 3-lobed staminate calyxes, 
and larger leaves. 
Specimens examined: Texas: The only specimens seen 
are those of the type, collected on the Upper Hondo, by 
J. Reverchon 1594, June, 1885. 
LOBELIA PUBERULA PAUCIFLORA D0. Var. 
Stems 6-10 dm. tall, simple, very slender, densely white- 
