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 ('ARLETOX R. T.ALL 



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

 vicinity of Alexandria, Louisiana, during the summer of 1890. 

 A re])ort on the entire collection is in preparation by Mr. Ball, 

 who has kindly afforded me an ()])portunity of examining with 

 him the nioic interesting portions of his matei'ial. 



C. L. P. 



Baptisia Texana (Holziii,<;er), n. comb. 



Biipiisin lartceolata te.mria Holzinger, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 1:28(5. 

 Oct. :}], ISIKJ. 



Plant erect, .5-6 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, slightlj' 

 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. lnnrtvlat((; legume 

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

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



Mr. Holzinger 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- 

 tution. 



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