﻿New Plants from New Mexico,— II. 



By E. O. Wooton. 



* Selinocakpus LANCEOLATUS. 



Perennial with a ligneous root from which arise numerous dif- 

 fusely branching stems 1-2 dm. high which are slender, woody at 

 the base, terete, tumid at the nodes, pulverulent pubescent ; leaves 

 opposite, subsessile, ovate-lanceolate, 1-3 cm. long, 5-8 mm. 

 wide, entire, obtuse, fleshy, bluish -green color (drying dark- 

 colored), glaucous, pubescent with small scattered scale-like hairs ; 

 flowers axillary, sessile, solitary though at first appearing geminate 

 in the upper axils, bracts subulate : calyx tubular-funnelform, 

 4 cm. long including the ovary; tube slender, fleshy, hirtellous; 

 limb light yellow with five thickened ribs : stamens 5, little ex- 

 serted ; filaments attached for about % of length of tube, free from 

 just below the throat, involute in the bud ; anthers 2-celled, 

 flattened, elliptical, attached by their inner edges to the connective, 

 versatile, dehiscent along the outer edges : fruit oblong-prismatic 

 6 mm. long, with five indurated angles upon which are membran- 

 ous wings 2-3 mm. wide, membranous between the angles ; seed 



single, suspended by a 1 mm. -long funiculus from the top of the 

 pericarp. 



Collected on white soil (mostly gypsum ?) just south of the 

 White Sands, August 26, alt. 4000 feet, no. 389. 



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closely related, but from which it may be separated by its solitary 

 flowers, and fleshy, narrower, glaucous, not scabrous leaves. 



Berberis haematocarpa. 



Branching shrub 1-2 m. high with yellowish sapwood, bark 

 grayish and shreddy on the older and brownish on the younger 

 stems : leaves inclined to be fascicled, 4-7 cm. long, pinnately 3~? 

 foliolate, subsessile, the proper petiole 5 mm. long or less ; stipule 5 

 laciniate ; leaflets stiff, coriaceous, ovate to oblong-lanceolate, io' 4 

 cm. long, 5-10 mm. wide, terminal leaflets 1.5-2 times as long # 

 others, glabrous, very little reticulated, only the more prominen 

 veins showing, margin with 2-4 pairs of sinuate spinescent teeth • 

 racemes fascicled with the leaves, equalling or slightly surpassing 



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