New Species of Oreocarya 
By ALIcE EAstTwoop 
In 1892 and 1895 the author collected several species of Orveo- 
carya in Colorado and Utah which differed from each other and 
did not agree with any of the then described species. These were 
laid aside on account of more pressing work. Some of these 
have since been described by Dr. E. L. Greene and Professor Aven 
Nelson; but there still remain several which apparently have not 
come under the observation of these botanists, while others are 
to be found in the herbarium of the California Academy of Sciences 
which, in the opinion of the author, have been incorrectly assigned 
to species from which they differ sufficiently to be considered 
distinct. 
Duplicates of types of many of the species are in the Acad- 
emy’s herbarium and I have besides, through the kindness of Mr. 
Carl F. Baker, had the opportunity of examining others which we 
did not possess. 
Oreocarya disticha 
Stems several from a woody perennial root, erect, slender, 
about 3 dm. high, with few erect branches, canescent with fine 
short closely appressed pubescence and few longer appressed 
bristly hairs : radical leaves wanting but the remains of the broad 
sheathing petioles indicating a cluster; cauline leaves somewhat 
scattered, oblanceolate, tapering to margined petioles which are 
dilated and clasping at base, upper surface appressed-pubescent, 
lower appressed-hirsute and pustulate, acute, entire, of falcate out- 
line when the edges are folded together, 2-4 cm. long: panicle 
becoming 8 cm. or more long, pedunculate, branching into a few 
slender spikes, with the flowers close and distichous on pedicels 
less than half as long as the sepals ; bracts linear, but little sur- 
passing the pedicels, the upper ones very small: divisions of the 
calyx involute, keeled, ovate-lanceolate, 4 mm. long, conniving 
around the fruit but with the obtuse tips spreading, pubescence 
like the stem: corolla white; limb with the divisions obovate- 
oblong, entire, obtuse, extending almost to the throat, a little more 
than 2 mm. long and almost as wide, about 5 mm. shorter than 
the tube; tube constricted at base and throat with the crests in 
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