412 PENNELL: PLANTS OF SOUTHERN UNITED STATES 
New York. Nassau: Rockville Center, E. P. Bicknell 
> June 27 (Y). 
New Jersey. Atlantic: Egg Harbor, J. B. Brinton > June 
21 (P). Burlington: Atsion, B. Long 6217 > July 19 (A). Cam- - 
den: Parkdale, G. W. Bassett 66 > June 14 (A). Cape May: 
Court House, F. W. Pennell 3984 > July 15 (A). Cumberland: 
Beaver Dam, B. Long 4943 (A). Gloucester: Repaupo, £. B. 
Bartram > June 23 (A). Middlesex: near Milltown, N. 
illiamson > August (Y). Monmouth: Farmingdale, N. Taylor 
45 > July4(Y). Ocean: Barnegat, B. Long 5296 < September 
29 (A). Salem: Yorktown, B. Long 4137 (A). 
PENNSYLVANIA. Delaware: Tinicum, 7. C. Porter (Y). 
DELAWARE. Sussex: Laurel, A. Commons > June 18 (A). 
Maryann. Dorchester: near Sharptown, J. P. Otis (A). 
Kent: Chestertown, E. G. Vanatta < August 3 (A). Prince 
Georges: Hyattsville, F. H. Knowlton > June 27 (VU). 
District or CoLumBia. Terra Cotta, C. S. Pollard 606 (U). 
Vircinta. Nansemond: Suffolk, A. A. Heller 925 > June 
8-13 (P, U, Y), a large-leaved form. 
SoutH Carotina. Aiken: Graniteville, H. Eggert > May 21. 
(M). Clarendon: Manning, W. Stone 245 > May 21 (A). 
“2. Smilax leptanthera Pennell, sp. nov. 
Stem striate, glabrous. Leaves alternate; petioles slender, 
rounded, narrowly channeled above, 6-7 cm. long; blades tri- 
angular-ovate, cordate at base, acuminate at apex, dull-green 
above, slightly glaucous beneath, glabrous above and beneath. 
Tendrils about 7 cm. long, stouter than in .S. tamnifolia, two to an 
axil. Staminate inflorescence: peduncles 12-15 cm. long; umbels 
thirty-five- to forty-flowered; pedicels filiform, 18-22 mm. long; 
sepals six, lanceolate, yellowish green, one-nerved, 4 mm. long, 
spreading to reflexed-spreading; filaments six, 1.2 mm. long; 
glabrous; anthers linear, recurved-coiled, 1-1.2 mm. long. Pis- 
tillate inflorescence not seen. 
Tyre: Warm Springs, Meriwether County, Georgia, collected 
_ in flower May 22, 1905, S. M. Tracy 9257, in the herbarium of the 
New York Botanical Garden. 
Piedmont Region of central Georgia, known only from the | 
original collection. 
Species closely allied to S. tamnifolia. 
