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RYDBERG: Rocky MOUNTAIN FLORA 645 
flora A. Gray); but that species is a much taller plant and the 
galea is about three times as long as the lower lip. It grows at 
an altitude of 2500-3600 m. 
CoLorapo: 1872, Parry (type, in herb. Columbia University): 
Empire, 1903, 7weedy 5742, Berthoud Pass, 1903, Zweedy 5741. 
~ Valeriana trachycarpa sp. nov. 
Perennial with a thick fleshy root; stem glabrous or nearly 
so, 5-7 dm. high; basal leaves oblanceolate or spatulate, 7-18 
cm. long, finely puberulent, especially on the margins and veins ; 
entire or with a few linear lobes, thick ; stem-leaves 1-2 pairs, pin- 
natifid with linear lobes; inflorescence large and branched ; corolla 
of the staminate plant 2.5-3 mm. wide; that of the essentially pis- 
tillate plant about 1.5 mm. wide; fruit broadly ovate, not hairy, 
but strongly rugose. 
This is closely related to V. edulis and V. purpurascens, but 
the former has pubescent ovary and fruit and narrower bracts, and 
the latter has narrower fruit, narrower leaves, more slender inflo- 
rescence and smaller staminate flowers, only 2 mm. wide; V. 
trachycarpa grows at an altitude of 2500-3000 m. 
Cotorapo: Red Mountain, 1901, Underwood & Selby 352 
(type); Alpine Tunnel, zzz, Marshall Pass, 1901, Baker 48r ; 
Rabbit Ears Pass, 1896, Baker. 
~ New Mexico: White Mountains, 1897, Wooton 320. 
’ Valeriana ovata sp. nov. 
Perennial with a rootstock ; stem about 3 dm. high, glabrous ; 
basal leaves entire, petioled, glabrous; petioles 2-6 cm. long; 
blades ovate, usually truncate or slightly cordate at the base, acute, 
entire or sinuate; stem-leaves 2-3 pairs; lateral lobes oblong to 
linear-lanceolate ; the terminal one lanceolate or of the lower leaves 
elliptic; inflorescence small and corymbiform ; corolla funnelform- 
salvershaped, about 8 mm. long ; limb of the fertile flowers about 
4mm. wide; of the staminate ones ‘about 6 mm. wide ; fruit ovate, 
glabrous. 
This species belongs to the V. septentrionalis group, but is 
characterized by its basal leaves. It grows on wooded hillsides at 
an altitude of 2400-2900 m. 
Cotorapo: Cameron’s Cove, 1901, Clements 241 (type). 
New Mexico: Cafion four miles east of Santa Fe, 1897, 
Heller 3613 ; Elizabeth Town, 1897, Berg. 
