NEW PLANTS FROM VARIOUS PLACES I3I 



pointed bract clasping at the base, and usually more than half 

 as long as the ovary, the latter ordinarily about 7 mm. long in 

 anthesis. Flowers dark purple, lateral sepals, ovate to obovate 

 and lanceolate, twisted upwards with an acute, acuminate, or 

 abruptly mucronate or aristate apex. Lower sepal narrower 

 slightly carinate towards the base, not over 1.6 cm. long. Petals 

 acute or obtuse at the apex, broader near the base, lanceolate 

 oblong or obspatulate because of an abrupt blunt tooth below the 

 middle. Lip bearded within with a triangular winged apex, slightly 

 retuse, mucronulate or obtuse. Claw linear, column dark purple 

 to black; pollen masses orbicular, dark purple to black without. 



Planta perparva 7.5-13 cm. alta cum duobus vel tribus tantum 

 fioribus, et folio perparvo lineari 3-6.5 longo et vix 5 mm. lata. 

 Flores purpurei minores quam in specie; pollinia suborbicularia, 

 atra. 



Type No. 609580 also 609581 U. S. National Herbarium 

 collected by J. D. Sornburger, Aug. 28, 1903 and Aug. 12, 1903 

 on the Barred Islands, Coast of Newfoundland. The remarkably 

 small size of the plant shows it at first sight as peculiar. The floral 

 bracts are relatively longer and the flowers smaller. The raceme 

 is always few flowered. Intermediate forms apparently between 

 this and our plants of the United States are met with in Nova 

 Scotia, but the Newfoundland plant has so remarkably different 

 an aspect and so many minor differences that it seems to deserve 

 at least varietal standing. 



Persicaria punctata var. tacubayana Nwd., nov. var. 



Plant glabrous, stem erect or ascending. Leaves oval, ovate 

 to elliptical seldom ovate lanceolate; cuneate at the base, rounded 

 or obtuse at the apex, in the upper undeveloped leaves sometime 

 acutish, or attenuate to a blunt apex, 2.7x3 to 4.5x6.5 cm. on 

 flowering shoots, light green above minutely but densely cinereous 

 puncticulate beneath; margin entire, in younger leaves sparsely 

 and minutely appressed ciliate; petiole .6-1 cm. long slender; 

 ochrea membranous, glabrous, 1-1.6 cm. long without bristly 

 ciliation, often with short excurrent veins in the upper parts of the 

 plant, cylindric sometimes wider at the base. Upper nodes 3-6.5 

 cm. long. Raceme erect 4-4.5 cm. long, lower flower about i cm. 

 distant from the others and separating to about 2.5 cm. in fruit. 

 Flowering peduncle 2.5-3 cm. long elongating in fruit to 5.5-7 cm. 



