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430 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [june 



or exceeding the calyx-lobes: capsule nearly glabrous, narrowly 

 cylindrical-oblong, 4-6 cm long, on a pedicel about i cm long; a double 

 row of small sharp crests on each obtuse angle : seeds light brown, 

 2 _ 3 mm long> obscurely bidentate at apex, the raphal furrow conspicu- 



ous. 



Carson's, Meadow Valley Wash, southern Nevada, May 26, 1902, Goodding 



960a. 



Quincula lepidota, n. sp — Very pale as if canescent, but without 

 pubescence except minute white pustular scales which are very numer- 

 ous on calyx, pedicels, and petioles, and occur sparingly on the veins: 



stems 



intervals either singly or in clusters: stems erect, short (probably 



h even at maturity): leaf blades 



5 x *"• x ^"6 



fleshy, mostly oval, from entire to undulate crenate, i2-25 mm long, 

 the narrowly margined petiole usually longer: pedicels slender, 

 IO _ 2 -mm i ong . calyx-lobes triangular, shorter than the 2-3™™ long 

 tube: corolla i2-i4 mm long and broad, campanulate-funnelform, 

 purple, with an orange-yellow band running from the middle of each 

 lobe toward the base of the tube, where there is a crown of 5 woolly 

 crests, the 5 slender filaments alternating with the crests: style longer 

 than the filaments but shorter than the corolla; ovary glabrous: 

 fruiting calyx and berry not known. 



Dry Lake, Nevada, in the gumbo soil of a dry lake bed, April 17, i9°5> 

 Goodding 2232. 



The appearance of this species is so different from that of Q. lobata, the only 

 other species of the genus, that were it not for the character of the pubescence and 

 the crown in the base of the corolla one would refer it, in the absence of fruit, to 

 Chamaesaracha rather than to Quincula. 



Physalis genucaulis, n. sp. — Perennial from a stout woody tap 

 root, i dm or more long; densely but minutely pruinose or viscid 

 puberulent throughout, and with no long hairs: stems several, each 

 more or less branched; the branches with short zigzag internodes, 

 2~3 dm high: leaves ovate to ovate-triangular, the base varying from 

 abruptly cuneate to cordate, i-3 cm long: calyx campanulate, about 

 5 mm long, the triangular lobes about half as long as the tube: corolla 

 greenish yellow, without conspicuous spots, campanulate-funnelform, 

 about io mm long: style shorter than the corolla and just surpassing 



