PENNELL: THE SPECIES OF KNEIFFIA 367 
capsules. Hypanthium 10-12 mm. long. Sepals 15-16 mm. 
long, long-attenuate; tips more or less free in the bud. Petals 
triangular, 15-17 mm. long. Filaments less than one half the 
length of the petals. Anthers 6-7 mm. long, yellow. Stigmas 
becoming one half length of style. Capsule linear, at least 9 mm. 
long, densely pubescent with ascending to appressed hairs; not 
seen mature. 
Type, Lfittle] R[ock], Ark[ansas], collected in flower June 2, 
1885, Dr. H. E. Hasse; in the herbarium of the New York Botan- 
ical Garden. 
Also ‘“‘La. Hale,” in the United States National Herbarium, 
with longer hypanthium, broader leaves and less dense pubescence 
apparently belongs to this species. 
3. KNEIFFIA SUBGLOBOSA Small 
Kneifia subglobosa Small, Bull. Torrey sen a4: 1975 1806: 
“North Carolina and Georgia.’’ Type, ‘‘on the slopes or 
summit of Stone Mountain, De Kalb County, Georgia,” col- 
lected in fruit September 6-12, 1894, J. K. Small, seen in 
the herbarium of Columbia University at the New York 
Botanical Garden; isotypes in the herbaria of the United 
States National Museum and the Missouri Botanical Garden. 
I have found no basis for the crediting of this species to North 
Carolina. 
Open rocky slopes, over granite, central Georgia to central 
Alabama. 
4. KNEIFFIA ARENICOLA Small 
Kneifia arenicola Small, Fl. SE. U. S. 842, 1335. 1903. ‘‘Type, 
Biltmore Herb., no. 5649d, in Herb. N. Y. B. G.” Type, 
“sand hills, Augusta, Georgia,” collected in fruit July 27, 1900, 
seen in the herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden; 
isotype in the United States National Herbarium. 
Sand-hills and dry pine-barrens, in the Coastal Plain, South 
Carolina to southern Mississippi. 
5. KwNEIFFIA FRUTICOSA (L.) Raimann 
Oenothera fruticosa L. Sp. Pl. 346. 1753- ‘Habitat in Virginia.” 
Type, Clayton 36, is identified by Dr. S. F. Blake (Rhodora 20: 
5I. 1918) as the plant here considered. 
