384 SMALL: PLANT NOVELTIES FROM FLORIDA 
The type specimens were collected by the writer between 
Avon Park and Sebring, December 13, 1920. 
“Lechea cernua Small, sp. nov. Plants 3-6 dm. tall, the 
foliage’ pubescent; flowering stems stout, often clustered, closely 
fine-pubescent, widely branched above; leaves of the inflorescence- 
branches finely pubescent; blades elliptic or nearly so, mostly 
4-6 mm. long, acute; basal shoots stout, mostly 2-5 dm. long, 
usually much- branched, pale-gray with short dense shaggy 
mewhat viscid pubescence; leaves of the shoots numerous; 
Bisdes suborbicular, oval, or elliptic, 4-12 cm. long, acute or 
abruptly pointed, copiously pale-pubescent, sessile; ‘brace ts of 
the inflorescence narrower than the branch-leaves; flowers very 
numerous; pedicels 1.5-2 mm. long, deflexed at maturity, 
appressed- _pubescent; outer sepals two minute scales; inner 
sepals three, suborbicular, I.5—2 mm. long, appressed-pubescent; 
pod obovoid, 2 mm. long, slightly exserted, glabrous, smoot 
shining ; seeds nea rly 1.5 mm. long.—"Scr ub” on inland sand- 
dunes in the lake region and ancient dunes on the eastern coast, 
peninsular Flor ida. 
The majority of the known North hota species of Lechea 
occur naturally in Florida. Recent exploration indicates that 
several additional endemic species occur there. The above 
described one is the most conspicuous. The plants of this 
species are the most robust of any of our species of Lechea. 
Technically it is related to Lechea racemulosa. Its vegetative 
and floral parts are larger throughout. It may be distinguished 
from its relatives, and in fact from all our lecheas by the great 
development of basal shoots with broad leaves and by the 
nodding capsules. 
The type specimens were collected by the writer on the 
ancient sand-dunes near Sebastian, Florida, September 6, 1922. 
Specimens of the same species have been collected in the “scrub” 
on the ancient dunes of the southern end of the lake region. 
’Chionanthus pygmaea Small, sp. nov. Shrub with under- 
ground stems, the branches 2-4 dm. tall, sometimes braiched at 
the base, and sometimes also Hae ove; leaves few, remote or a 
proximate on the = E branenlets: blades thin leathery, elliptic 
or nearly so, 3-9 cm. long, short-petioled flower-clusters rather 
dense; calyx-lobes ee es vate or orbicular-ovate, about I 
nm. tuse or arpa de pointed ; corolla-lobes narrowly 
linear, about 1 cm. long; anthers ellipsoid, less than g, 
abruptly blunt-tipped; drupe oval, 2-2.5 cm. inn ng, purple- 
black; putamen ellipsoid, constricted at the base, 1.5—2 cm. long. 
