CONTRIBUTIONS TO WESTERN BOTANY 63 
leaves than there brects, but the root leaves are often half a dozen 
and 3 inches long. with proper petiole shorter than the sheath 
and with about 6 pairs of distinct ard ovate to lanceolate leaflets 
with a cuneate and generally sessile base, These leaflets are never 
a third inch lorg snd sre doubly ard irregularly serrate toward 
the tip where they pass into variously cut and lobed sections, the 
teeth are callus-tipned, Flowers yellow. Involucre none, repe- 
resented by a ring of short and woolly hairs which is found at the 
base of all leaf-bracts on the stems. The young fruit broadly 
ovate and would he oval were it not a little coatrenten at tip, 3-4 
lor g, With bread and rounded corky ribs, shallow and widest 
in the noudle 
Spermolepis divaricata ( Walt.) Raf. Neog. 2 1829, I note 3 
blunders of Coulter & Rose on page 87 of their monograph, The 
genus is fem nine ‘ed not masculine, and Britton was aot the auth- 
or of the combination. 
m depressum hn. asp. No. 82793 Pom, Coll. Herb. 
Lake near San Miguel Zacatecas Mex, May 6 1392, Joner, A de- 
pressed and apparent winter aunual a few inches high, either stem- 
less and with leaves and peduncles congested at the root or with 
short and decumbent stems and long peduncles. Leaves tripin- 
nate, with final segments linear and yaaa 3-nerved, 6 _ ‘sap 
Fruit oblately round, rather truncate at the end, the 2 a & Bp- 
pearing as half-oval, with equal corky ribs and smooth, ahont Imm 
long, manifestly allied to A. repens. 
1elia cuneifolia n. ap. No. 27 850, Arroyo Undo, 
Sierra Giganta, Oct. 261930. Leaves fascicled in knots and with 
tingle flowers on pedicels 1 cm. long. Leavea 1-2 inches long, 
spatulate, with reunded tip and slightly petioled, seemingly smooth 
but minutely puberulent, gray, with veins barely visible. Thorns 
few and short. This would be taken for B, reticulata ee & 
but leaves very different. A low and rigid shrub with dar 
arsonsia dispersa n. sp. No. 27398, La Bias ca, 
— Noy, 251930. Allied to Cuphea Cuarnavacana Rose 
and glandulosa Jones. An erect annual and widely branched into 
filiform branchlets, long- -hairy-black-glandular throughout. Leaves 
very thin, elliptical-lanceolate-acuminate, about 3 inches long, 
ninutely crenulate, truncate to cuneate into a short petiole, many. 
Upper internedes short, Flowers few and in racemose pee 
abeut 1 inch long, conspicuously spurred and strongly gree 
striped calyx black-hsiry on the stripes. Petals bluish- Sects, 
oblanceolate, long-:]awed, nearly 1 inch lo ong. Seeds rounded-oval 
and 3mm, wide, strongly margined, dark and mostly mottled, Gat. 
peduncles ‘3 inch long, ascending and with flowers neflexed. 2 
fields, showy. 
