DESCRIPTION OF SPECIBh. 99 



Daphnophyllum uakotense, sp. nov. 

 PI. LI, Figs. 1-4; PI. LII, Fig. 1. 



Leaves entire, subcoriaceous, lanceolate, broader at the middle, grad- 

 ually tapering upward to a long acumen, more rapidly to the base or to a 

 short petiole; nervation camptodrome; midril) narrow ; lower secondaries 

 opposite, very oblique, curved in [)assing toward the borders, which they 

 follow in simple festoons. 



The leaves, which are about H"" long, and nearly 2""" broad at the 

 middle, have only eight pairs of secondaries, distinctly marked upon all 

 the specimens except one. The lowest are opposite, ])assing toward the 

 borders at an angle of 30°. They have the same form and the same type 

 of nervation as the leaves of Dnphm protogoia Ett. (Flora von Bilin, pt. 2, 

 p. 13, PI. x.xxiv, Figs. 1-3). The resemblance to this last figure is espe- 

 cially remarkable. No. 1153 is evidently the same species and has a similar 

 kind of nervation. Nos. 1160 and 1176 are variable forms of the same 

 species. 



Habitat: Proljably Ellsworth County, Kansas. Nos. 1222a and 1224a 

 of the collection of Mr. R. I). Lacoe. Fig. 1, PI. LI, is No. 2807; Fig. 2, 

 PI. LII, and Fig. 1, PI. LXIV are No. 2808 of the collection of the National 

 ]\Iuseum. 



Sassafras subintegbifolium Lesq. 

 PI. XIV, Fig 2. 



(Jret. Fl., p. 82, PI. II, Fig. 5. 



Leaf subcoriaceous, ovate, acute, naiTowed to the petiole, .short, ob- 

 tusely lobed on one side, entire on the other, triplinerved from above the base 

 and at a distance from tlie secondaries, which are in three or four pairs, 

 alternate, parallel, camptodrome, at an acute angle of divergence ; ner\'illes 

 distinct, curved in the middle, at right angles to the midrib and the second- 

 aries. 



The leaf is fi.S"'" long, 3.5"" broad, narrowed and slightly decurrent to 

 a slender petiole. The median nerve is naiTow but rigid, quite distinctly 

 marked, as well as the secondaries. Comparing this leaf to the half loV)ate 

 ones of S. officinale L., the similarity of characters is easily observed. The 

 basil nerves are alternate; one of them, slightly stronger, emerges on one 

 side, forming a lobe and thus crasjiedodrome, while on the other side all 

 the nerves are camptodrome and the l)0]-ders remain entire. With the mod- 

 ification of one of the primary nerves the nervation is of the same char- 



