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longer than the sepals, erect with reflexed tips ; stamens a little shorter 

 than the petals ; young carpels erect, the styles subulate. 



In cracks of rocks on high mountains in the northeastern part of 

 Mexico, State of Coahuila, from the collections of Mr. McDowell in 

 the City of Mexico, transmitted to the New York Botanical Garden, 

 December, 1903, by Mr. Frank Weinberg. 



3. LENOPHYLLUM ACUTIFOLIUM Rose, sp. nov. 

 Perennial, much branched at base; leaves opposite, 

 6 or 8 pairs, thickish, deeply channeled above, acute ; 

 flowers scattered in an interrupted spike or equilateral 

 raceme, sessile or subsessile, borne in the axils of small 

 bracts ; sepals subequal, thickish, acute ; petals greenish- 

 yellow, distinct, erect below, the upper spreading or re- 

 flexed, acute ; the 5 stamens opposite the sepals distinct, 

 the other five borne on the petals ; scales broad, truncate 

 Fig. 19.— at apex; carpels erect; styles slender. 

 Lenophyl- Collected by C. G. Pringle near Monterey, Mexico, in 



linn acuti- 



/('////w Rose. -^ "* 



Type in U. S. National Herbarium (no. 396,786) and 

 living plants in succulent house, Department of Agriculture. 



4. LENOPHYLLUM TEXANUM (J. G. Smith) Ross 

 Sedum texanum J. G. Smith, Rep. Mo. Bot. Gard. 6: 114. pi. 30. 1895. 

 Villadia tcxana Rose, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 3: 3. 1903. 



Sedum texanum was very reluctantly referred by Mr. Rose to his 

 new genus Villadia, but as it possessed a slender spike-like in- 

 florescence, small flowers, erect carpels, etc., there seemed to be no 

 other place for it. A reexamination, though of rather poor material, 

 shows that Mr. Smith's illustration and description are somewhat 

 faulty, for the scars on the stems indicate opposite leaves, which are 

 thick and fleshy like those of Lenophyllum acutifolium, while the in- 

 florescence is not secund but equilateral. It differs from Villadia in 

 having distinct petals, opposite, broad, trough-shaped leaves, etc. 



Type in Herb. Mo. Bot. Gard.; duplicate type in U. S. National 

 Herbarium. 



