156 iVelson and Kcnaedy — New Plants from the Great Basin. 



leaves variable, from 1-15 cm. long; margins unevenly undulate-dentate; 

 apex acute or obtuse, attenuate to a sessile base ; flowers terminating the 

 rather long, bracted, fruiting racemes ; calyx-lobes oblong-lanceolate, 4 mm. 

 long; corolla yellowish from the bud, becoming pink and purple with age; 

 petals suborbicnlar 5 mm. long and 4 mm. wide ; capsules narrowly linear. 

 3-5 cm. long, attenuate at base, straight or slighth' curved ; seeds 1 mm, 

 long. 



Allied to S. Lemmoni A. Nels. 



Collected on the shore of Pyramid Lake, Washoe County, Nevada, May 

 19, 1905, No. 1015a (type) P. B. Kennedy. 



Qodetia latifolia sp. nov. 



Whole plant sparsely pubescent; stems purplish, 1-3 dm. high, erect, 

 slender; leaves ovate-lanceolate, arute, entire, the largest 2.5 cm. long, 

 attenuate at the base into a petiole S mm. long ; calyx-lobes free, broadly 

 linear-lanceolate, 8 mm. long; corolla deep purple; petals 8 mm. long and 

 6 mm. wide, attenuate at the base; stamens and style of nearly equal 

 length ; capsule sparsely pubescent, 8-12 mm. long, attenuate at the apex. 



Nearest to G. Tenelia from which it is easily separated by the shape and 

 texture of the leaves. Type (accession No. 55,038) collected at Sierra 

 Valley, Sierra County, California, July, 1904, Miss Helen Hamlin. 



Oreocarya hispida sp. nov. 



Caudex about 5 cm. long, rather slender, apparently biennial ; stems 

 several, about 1-1.5 dm. high, floriferous almost to the base; leaves oblan- 

 ceola:e-spatulate, with long petioles dilated at the base, 2.5-5 cm. long in. 

 eluding petiole; old leaves pubescent-hispid, sil very -gray ; new leaves 

 pilose-hispid, greener ; inflorescence thyrsoid-glomerate ; pedicels about 3 

 mm. long; calyx segments 4 mm. long, linear-lanceolate, equaling the tube 

 of the corolla, very densely hispid ; corolla cream-colored, tube 3 mm. long, 

 lobes 3 mm. long, orbicular ; crests at base of each lobe conspicuous ; 

 anthers almost sessile; nutlets forming an ovoid-pyramidal fruit, narrowed 

 above, rather acute, more or less rugose or tuberculated on the back, mar- 

 gins angular ; style elongated. 



Collected in Carson Valley, Ormsby County, Nevada, April 24, 1904. 

 No. 8G5 (type). G. H. True. 



Cryptanthe densiflora sp. nov. 



Root biennial, stout ; plant hispid throughout, about 2 dm. high, branch- 

 ing profusely from the base into numerous slender stems; stems thickly 

 clustered with flowers above and below ; leaves few, oblong to linear, about 

 1-2 cm. long; fruiting calyx closed; segments linear-lanceolate, 2.5 mm. 

 long, hispid ; corolla 2 mm. long, its lobes 1 mm. long, nutlets 1 or 2, light 

 gray, 1.5 mm. long, minutely scabrous-nniricate. 



Allied to C. murlculata but with smaller nutlets, very slender numerous 

 branches, and profuse inflorescence. Collected at Verdi, Washoe County, 

 Nevada, September 29, 1904, No. 952 (type) P. B. Kennedy. 



