SStandley — The American Species of Fagonia. 247 



The writer lias seen no materia] of this species. The description is a 

 transcript of the original one. 



5. Fagonia insularis Standley, sp. nov. 



Stems slender, nmeli branched, 30 cm. long or less, sparingly soft-villons 



with short, white hairs; petioles 5 to 12 mm. long, short-villons and 

 slightly viscid ; stipules slender, spinescent, 4 to 5 mm. long, short-villous 

 and viscid, spreading; leaflets 3, linear, spinescent tipped, 1 to 9 mm. 

 long, pubescent and glandular; pedicels about 8 mm. long, reflexed in 

 age, hearing numerous short, gland-tipped hairs; sepals 2 mm. long, 

 oblong, acuminate; petals 5 mm. long; fruit finely pubescent and spar- 

 ingly glandular, :'> to 4 mm. high, with a slender beak 2.5 to 3 mm. long. 



Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, No. 14,216, collected on Carmen 

 Island. Lower California, in November, 1890, by Dr. Edward Palmer 

 ( No. 830). Also collected on the same island by Doctor Palmer 20 years 

 earlier (1870), No. 13. 



< )f the previously described species this appears to be nearest Fagonia 

 pachyacanlha, but is a more slender plant with smaller leaflets, slender, 

 shorter stipules, and has a longer beak on the smaller fruit. 



6. Fagonia rosei Standley, sp. now 



Perennial with slender, scaberulous and somewhat glandular sterns 

 about 30 cm. long; petioles 4 to 7 mm. long, glandular; stipules stout 

 but short, 1.5 to 3 mm. long, mostly 2 mm., spinescent, prominently 

 reflexed, glandular; leaflets 3, lanceolate or linear-oblong, glandular, 

 spinescent tipped, small, 2 to ?> mm. long; pedicels usually slightly longer 

 than the fruit, deflexed, glandular; sepals lanceolate or lance-oblong, 

 rarely more than 2 mm. long, acute; petals pale purplish, 7 mm. long; 

 fruit 4 mm. high, minutely pubescent and glandular, with a slender beak 

 •_' to 2.5 mm. long. 



Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, No. (>19,744, collected on Tiburon 

 Island in the Gulf of California, April 11, 1911, by J. N. Rose (No. 

 16,779a). 



This stands nearest Fagonia insularis but is a greener plant with 

 broader leaflets and different pubescence and stipules. 



7. Fagonia aspera C. Cay, Hist. Chile Bot. 1 : 470. 1S45. 



Type locality, Chile. 



Low, rather stoutly branched plant with angled, scaberulous or puber- 

 nlent branches; stipules stout, L' to 3 mm. long, spinescent, short-villons; 

 petioles stout, about equaling the leaflets, these obovate to oblong-lanceo- 

 late, nearly obtuse, abundantly pubescent; pedicels 2.5 to 5 mm. long, 

 pubescent; flowers not seen ; fruit :! to 4 mm. high, conspicuously strigose 

 with rather long hairs, noticeably tapering at the apex, with a slender 

 beak 1.5 to 2 mm. long. 



The description is drawn from poor specimens collected in Peru by the 

 Wilkes Exploring Expedition. This is the only collection of the species 

 seen and seems to agree well with the original description. 



