10 PLANTS BAZERIAN-ffi. 



V. RETROSCABRA, Greene, Pitt. iv. 290, very recently pub- 

 lished, is represented by the two numbers 68, 144, both 

 from near Cimarron. This and the three new ones next 

 succeeding are of the natural group represented by the Old 

 World V. canina. 



V. STENAXTHA. A multiciptal and csespitose dwarf, form- 

 ing mats 2 or 3 inches broad, little more than 1 inch high ; 

 herbage very minutely and sparingly scabro-puberulent, 

 the angles of the petioles more obviously and retrorsely so : 

 leaves deltoid-ovate to oval, little more than J inch long, 

 rather fleshy, lightly crenate, usually tapering, though 

 abruptly, to the petiole: peduncles about equalling the 

 leaves, bearing conspicuous subulate-linear bractlets near 

 the flower, sepals large for the flower, oblong-linear, acute, 

 glabrous, not- scarious-margined: corolla dark-blue, about 

 5 lines long including the very long and narrow somewhat 

 hooked spur, very narrow, the petals not widely expanding, 

 the keel broad, the others narrow. 



On the Grand Mesa, 23 June, n. 230. A species very 

 well characterized by its long and narrow long-spurred 

 dark-blue corolla. 



V. DEMISSA. Scarcely larger than the last, but rhizoma- 

 tous, the rootstocks chaffy with the persistent sere and 

 brown stipules of a preceding year : leaves J inch long, on 

 petioles of about an inch, round-ovate to deltoid-ovate and 

 oval, crenate, glabrous: peduncles much exceeding the 

 leaves, bibracteolate towards the middle: sepals oblong- 

 linear, asute; corolla nearly J inch long including the 

 long obtuse cylindric spur, the petals subequal, widely ex- 

 panding, violet above the middle, white below, and 

 .marked with purple veins. 



In moist grassy depressions at 12,000 feet above Marshall 



