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western Louisiana and eastern Texas. Little-known. Flowering 

 in May and June, and soon ripening fruit. 



Arkansas. Leavenworth (Y). 



Louisiana. Hale (Y). 



Texas. Waller: Hempstead, Hall 414 (A, U, Y). 



6. Gratio'a virginiana L. 



Gratiola virginiana L., Sp. PI. 17. 1753. "Habitat in Virginia." For 

 discussion of the type of this see S. F. Blake in Rhodora 20: 6.5. 1918. 



Corolla white, within with longitudinal purple lines, more 

 pronounced on posterior side. Flowering from March to May and 

 soon ripening fruit. 



Wet loam, in shade, usually along streams, in the Coastal 

 Plain of eastern Arkansas, Louisiana and eastern Texas. Ranges 

 from New Jersey to Florida and Texas, inland in the Mississippi 

 Valley to Illinois and Missouri. 



Arkansas. Jefferson: Eggert (Y). Pulaski: Little Rock, Hasse 

 (Y). 



Louisiana. "New Orleans," Drummond (Y). 



Texas. Bowie: Texarkana, Letterman (Y). Harris: Houston, 

 Biltm. hb. 1215a (U). 



3. SOPHRONANTHE Bentham. 

 Sophronanthe Benth.; Lindl., Nat. Syst. Bot. ed. ii. 445. 1836. 

 Type species, S. hispida Benth. 



1. Sophronanthe hispida Benth. 



SophroJianthe hispida Benth., 1. c. 445. 1836. "The plant was gathered by 

 Drummond at Apalachicola." Isotype, Drummond 20, seen in Her- 

 barium of Columbia University at the New York Botanical Garden. 



Corolla with tube externally yellowish-white, within and on 

 lobes white. Flowering from May to September, and soon ripening 

 fruit. 



To be expected in the dry sandy long-leaf pineland, but speci- 

 mens have been seen only from Cameron Parish, Louisiana. 

 Ranges within this belt, from Southern Georgia and Florida west- 

 ward to Louisiana. 



Louisana. Cameron: Cameron, Tracy 8710 (Y). 



4. HYDROTRIDA Small. 

 Hydrolrida Small, Fl. Miami 165. 1913. 

 Type species, Obolaria caroliniana Walt. 



