112 LEAPLBTS. 



the tube glandular, this and the oblong obtuse green-tipped 

 segments of about equal length : stamens and petals of about 

 equal length and well exserted. 



Lone Pine, Inyo Co., California, 1897, at 7,000 feet ;M. E. 

 Jones. Type in U. S. Herb. 



H. VEKSicoLOE. Ehizome short, stout, fleshy rather than lig- 

 neous : leaves all nearly orbicular, slightly longer than broad, 

 the basal sinus open but not rounded, IJ to If inches broad, 

 thin, glabrous above, nearly so beneath, the margin sparsely and 

 unequally setaceous-ciliate ; petioles sparsely hirsute : scapes 

 slender, naked, short, bearing the inflorescence only a little, or 

 even not at all, above the foliage, the whole plant, though of 

 large parts, only 6 or 8 inches high ; thyrsoid and narrow 

 inflorescence completely unilateral, 3 or 4 inches long, the small 

 bracts simple or trifld, of linear-lanceolate cut, purplish : calyx 

 turbinate, the segments longer than the tube, ovate-oblong, 

 pinkish and green-tipped, after flowering changing to rose- red : 

 petals minute or wanting ; several stamens apt to be infertile 

 and the filament wide and petaloid. 



On damp shady bluffs in the Black Kange, New Mexico, 

 9500 feet, 3 Aug. 1904, 0. B. Metcalfe, n 1203. Both these 

 Hencheras are allies of H. rubescens. 



H. LEPTOMEEIA. Ehizome stout, fleshy rather than ligneous, 

 leaves subreniform-orbicular to orbicular or slightly elongated, 

 li to II inches broad, glabrous above, sparsely setulose along the 

 veins beneath and around the margin ; petioles loosely hirsutu- 

 lous and minutely glandular : scapes slender, naked, a foot high, 

 glabrous ; rachis of the narrow but open panicle and the pedi- 

 cels sparingly minute-glandular : calyx acute at base and 

 narrowly turbinate, the segments little more than half as long 

 as the tube, ovate-oblong, obtuse : petals as long as the stamens, 

 the blade linear on a long filiform exserted claw. 



Organ Mountains, New Mexico, 17 Sept., 1893, E. 0. Wooton, 

 as to the type specimens in U. S. Herb. Other specimens, but 

 with stouter peduncles, and calyx a little less narrow, were 

 obtained in the same range of mountains by Mr. Wooton 

 1 Sept., 1897. 



