60 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [JULY 
A NEW SPHAERALCEA. 
Sphaeralcea martii, n. sp.— Perennial, low and rather spreading, 
15 to 30™ high: leaves and stems whitish-green with an excessively 
dense white stellate pubescence: leaves subhastate, with broad short 
basal lobes, crinkled, edges coarsely irregularly serrate, about 27"" long 
and 15™" wide; petioles about ro™ long: flowers large, 23" in 
diameter, in clusters of six or seven at the ends of the branches; pedi- 
cels 5 to 7™" long: calyx 11™™ to tip of lobes, 4™™ to base of lobes: 
petals fully 15" long and broad, rather pale but vivid scarlet (dull 
pink in dry material): anthers orange; pollen bright orange: styles 
crimson : fruit maliform, densely white-hairy ; carpels with very small 
beaks ; ovules two in a cell. . 
Picacho mountain, Mesilla valley, New Mexico, in volcanic soil, 
March 25, 1900 (Cockere//); hills north of Picacho mountain, April 7, 
1900, in fruit (£. O. Wooton). A specimen is in Herb. U.S. National 
Museum. 
Differs from S. sudhastata in its pointed leaves, clustered flowers, 
deeply cleft calyx with long acuminate lobes, and especially in its 
early flowering, wherein it resembles the annual species. The only- 
flowering date I find reported for S. suéhastata is in August.—T. D. A. 
COcKERELL, Last Las Vegas, N. M. 
