11" CONTRIBUTIONS FBOM Mil NATIONAL HERBARIUM, 



lonoxalis alpina Rose, Bp. nov. 



Bulbe solitary ; leaves radical, Beveral; petiole* Blender, glabrous; leaflet-:;, broadl) 

 cuneate, strongl) notched, glabrous, pale beneath; peduncle long, longer than the 

 leaves, glabrous, 2 or 3-flowered; involucral bracts small, Blightly pubescent; pedi- 

 cels long 2.51 and Blender, somewhat unequal; Bepals lanceolate, 4 mm. 

 long, obtuse or acutish, glabrous with Bcarious margins; petals whit.-, large, 20 nun. 

 Ion-: 5 of the stamens a little longei than th»- others; filaments glabrous below, 



.-lightly hairy at tin- top. 



Type i S \ati..nal Herbarium no. 304004, collected h\ Dr. C. < ■. Pringle on 

 Bierra de la- Crucis, Mexico, altitude :'>.<ti>o meters, August 13, 1896 uo. ' 



Iouoxalis amplifolia Trelease Rose. 



ns amplifolia Trelease in A. Gray, Syn. Fl. I 1 : 368. L897, 



This form Beems t<> deserve specific rank. It is characterized by broad obcordate 

 leaflets, tin- lobes short ami rounded. Doctor Trelease determined it a- a form of 

 < >. dm rgens, a species of South Mexico having white flowers. 



I have referred here tentatively a specimen collected by Palmer near Durango, 



lonoxalis bipartita Rose, Bp. nov. 

 Bulbs globose, Bmall, the scales many-nerved, ciliate; budsand young parts hairy; 



leatlet- .">. a little hairy, deeply 2-lobed; lobes widely spreading, linear and elongated, 

 obtuse; Bepals 3 mm. lotiL r . obtuse, 2-glandular at tip; petals pale Line (?), small. <\ 

 nun. long; stamens id. united below, of two lengths, the longer ones hairy; ovary 

 sessile or nearly so; Btyles long and short in different flowers; fruit oblong-linear, 



5 nun. long. 



Type U. s. National Herbarium no. 461290, collected by C. <;. Pringle near Cuer- 

 uavaca, Morelos, .Inly, L898 (no. 6896); also collected in the same locality by .1. N. 

 Rose, May, 1899 no. 431 



This species resembles /. stiptiataot the Valley of -Mexico, hut has different leaf- 

 lets, flowers, etc. 



lonoxalis compacta Rose. -p. n<»\ 



Plants glabrous, growing in clusters Oil rocks in dark canyon-; bulbs small, the 

 coats l-nerved, -mall: leaflets .">. small, wedge-shaped, retuse at apex; peduncles 

 longer than the leaves, 2 to 4-flowered; pedicels .-lender, about 2 cm. long; sepals 

 lanceolate, obtuse, 2.5 mm. long; petals pale lilac. 10 mm. long; 5 longer stamens 

 Blightly hairy. 



Type U. S. National Herbarium no. 302425, collected by J. X. Rose in a canyon 

 mar top of the Sierra Madre just below the little village of Santa Teresa, Tepic, alti- 

 tudeabout 2,400 meters, August li', 1897 (no. 3448). 



Perhaps nearest /. gregaria, hut with different leaflets, fewer and Larger flower-, etc. 



lonoxalis confusa Rose, Bp. nov. PLATE XXXV, FlGl RE 1. 



Resembling T. furcata; leaflets glaucous and much deeper-cleft (usually to below 

 the middle); Bepals glabrous; flowers more numerous and smaller; capsule linear- 

 oblong, 7 mm. Ion-; stamen- of two lengths, the short one- glabrous, the long hairy. 



Type r. s. National Herbarium no. 305682, collected by Dr. C. <■• Pringle on wet 

 hanks near < hiadalajara. Jalisco, June, 1889 (no. 278 



This species was distributed as 0. decaphylla II. B. K., from which it proves to he 



very distinct. 



lmation "i Plate XXXV, Pig. i.— Fi.u r - ". plant; b, sepal; c, d, stamens; >, ovary, i 

 natural size; b to < . BCali 



lonoxalis conzattiana Rose, Bp. nov. 



Bulbs solitary, rather large, surrounded by a bundle of filters; bulb-scales orbicular, 



with many nerve.- | !•"> or more I; leaflets 4 to 0, orbicular to shortly oblong, rounded 



