NEW SPECIES OF WESTERN PLANTS. 
T2S.. BRANDEGEE. 
Delphinium Purpusi, n. sp.— Perennial, slightly pubescent : 
stems somewhat leafy, 4-67" high from a fibrous root: leaves 
1o™ or less in diameter, 3-cleft into incised or lobed mucronulate 
divisions on petioles 5-15™ long: raceme 5—15°™ long, the few 
purplish red flowers on pedicels 1-2™ long: spur thick and blunt, 
slightly curved, 15™™ long; lateral petals 8-9™™ long, the narrow 
laminz yellow-bearded within; upper petals pale or white: 
sepals longer than the petals: follicles three, glabrous, reticulate- 
veined, 2 long: seeds 1™™ long, with a very loose cellular 
coating. 
Erskine creek, southeastern California, Dr. C. A. Purpus, 
no. 5015. 
This species closely resembles D. nudicaule T. & G. in its leaves, but has 
flowers of a quite different color, that dry to lavender rather than scarlet. 
The lateral petals are broader, bearded, and not so sharply laciniate; the 
upper petals are differently shaped, entire, broader, and shorter. JD. 
nudicaule belongs to the northern part of California. 
Cleomella gracilis, n. sp—A glabrous strict annual: stems 
3°" high, simple or sometimes with two short erect branches 
from near the base: the lowest leaves trifoliate ; the others simple 
with flowering leafy branches 5™™ long in their axils or the 
uppermost with single flowers ; stipules simple or divided into 
filiform deciduous bristles: leaflets 1-2°™ long, I-1.5™ wide, 
linear-spatulate, apiculate, on petioles 5™™ long or less, often 
sessile: flowers yellow, with petals 2™™ long equalling the 
stamens: capsule deltoid, 5™™ wide, 4™™ high on a curved 
pedicel 8™™ long: stipe 1™™ long: seeds seven, blotched with 
purple, not tapering to the base, marked somewhat like those of 
C. plocasperma Wats. 
Twin Springs, Nevada, Dr. C. A. Purpus, no. 6342. 
UNE 
444 UJ 
