SMALL: PLANT NOVELTIES FROM FLORIDA 391 
glabrous; stamens 2 mm. long, the anthers much longer than 
bid navn the apical gland knob-like; fee obovoid to i 
oid, but more or less irregular or somew what t rulose, 2-5 cm. lon 
station: seeds subglobose, but often peer oe Tieceicd ie 
low pinelands, DeSoto County, Florida. 
The type specimens were al by the writer in the unin- 
habited wilderness east of Punta Gorda, April 28, 1923. 
/SANIDOPHYLLUM Small, gen. nov. Biennial, partly 
woody herbs with one or more stems from the top of a woody 
tap-root. Leaves opposite, approximate and decussate at the 
base of the stem and on short sterile branches, remote on the 
flower stem; blades narrow, rather subulate ymes with 
elongate spike-like wiry branches. Flowers subtended by two 
bracts. Sepals 5, unequal, ribbed. Petals 5, soreness oblique 
and inequilateral, the blade mostly on one side of the midrib. 
Stamens mostly 20. Ovary 3-celled. Styles filiform. Pero 
terminal. Capsule narrowly conic, acuminate, e rpels 
distinct, erect. (Generic name from the Greek, eae cross- 
leaf, referring to the decussate leaves of the stems.) 
Sanidophyllum, a genus of Hypericaceae, is characterized by 
the short vegetative branches clothed with spreading decussate 
small linear leaves; the slender wiry flowering branches with 
small linear remote leaves except near the base of the plant; 
and the carpels distinct in fruit. 
The petals are very inequilateral, the blade being mostly on 
one side of the midvein. The stamens are usually grouped in 4’s. 
Y Sanidophyllum cumulicola Small, sp. nov. Plants with a 
woody tap-root; leafy branches at or near the top of the tap- 
root, 5 mm. long or less; flowering stems 2-7 dm. tall, wiry, 
usually clustered ; Teaves 1-6 mm. long, spreading on the lower 
part of the stem, appressed and scale-like above; inflorescence- 
branches very slen der, the ultimate ones zigzag, the bracts scale- 
like; flowers erect; sepals leathery, broadly linear to ovate, I-1.5 
mm. long, 2—-4-r ribbed; petals yellow, 3-4 mm. long; capsule 
5-6 mm. long, between twice ad thrice as long as the calyx, 
brown, the carpels slender-beaked; seeds oval, less than 0.5 mm. 
long.—In the ‘“‘scrub,” southern part of lake region, Florida. 
Tic habit e ‘his plant, in life, is suggestive of a yellow-flax 
(Cathartolinum). It resembles several of the Mexican species of 
Cathartolinum, which also have the short basal foliage branches 
with the decussate leaves. 
The type specimens were collected by the writer on the an- 
cient sand-dunes between Avon Park and Sebring, August 30 
and 31, 1922. 
