VOL. XIII, PP. 133-135 APRIL 6, 1900 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 



SOME NEW OR NOTEWORTHY LOUISIANA 

 PLANTS.* 



BY CHARLES LOUIS POLLARD AND CARLETON R. BALL. 



The species described below were collected by Mr. Ball in the 

 vicinity of Alexandria, Louisiana, during the summer of 1899. 

 A report on the entire collection is in preparation by Mr. Ball, 

 who lias kindly afforded me an opportunity of examining with 

 him the more interesting portions of his material. 



C. L. P. 



Baptisia Texana (Holzinger), n. comb. 



Baptisia lanceolata texana Holzinger, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 1:28(5. 

 Oct. 31, 1893. 



Plant erect, 5-G dm. high, the stems freely branching, pubescent; 

 leaves subcoriaceous, nearly sessile, mostly shorter than the internodes; 

 leaflets oblong or obovate, very obtuse at apex, cuneate at base, slightly 

 petiolulate, 3-4 cm. long, both surfaces strongly reticulate veined and 

 sprinkled with scattered hairs; flowers solitary in the upper axils, and 

 also forming short terminal racemes, yellow, 2 cm. long; calyx hirsute, 

 with 5 short teeth; corolla resembling that of B. lanceolata; legume 

 ovoid, stipitate, villous, 1-1| cm. long, tipped with the elongated per 

 sistent style; seeds few, ovoid, 3-4 mm. long. 



Mr. Hol/inger based his variety on Nealley's No. 73, from Texas, the 

 type being in the U. S. National Herbarium. In the course of his de 

 scription he remarks "The pubescence, including the ovary, the sessile 

 leaves, and the nearly sessile solitary flowers in the axils of the upper 

 leaves of the flowering branches, which are terminated by few-flowered 



^Published by permission of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Insti 

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