Saxifrage Reevesii sp, nov. 
Saxifrage Reevesii sp. nov. Plant perennial, scapose from a corm-like 
rootstock; space 15-25 cm., mostly about 20 cm. tall, 1-2 mm. broad, greenish, 
becoming purplish, naked, glandular-pilose, sometimes sparsely so; leaves basal, 
mostly 10 or more, mostly about 3 cm. long and 10-15 mm. broad, oval and with a 
spatulate base which is as much as 3 mm. broad and 1/4 to 1/3 as long as the 
blade, glandular-ciliate especially towards the base, otherwise smooth, entire to 
undulate or irregularly and obsecurely dentate; inflorescence cymose, compactly 
clustered, the branches as much as 1 cm. long before dividing into branchlets and 
subtended by linear-lanceolate bracts which are 4-6 mm. long, each branchlet,and 
each flower subtended by a similar bract; flowers short-pedicellate and short- 
pedunculate, in compact clusters of 3-5, terminating the branchlets; mostly about 
4 mm. broad; petals white, spatulate-obovate, up to 4 mm. long and 1.25 mm, broad, 
exceeding the calyx by about 1 mm.; caljTc 2.5-3.5 mm. long; calyx-lobes erect, 
about half as long as the calyx-tube, ovate, obtuse, reddish or purplish at 
maturity; staqiens 10, with filiform filaments; ovary nearly free from the calyx; 
carpels 2-celled, normally 3, united at the base, the tips widely divergent and 
becoming purplish, 
I^iis plant differs from S. texana Buckl. in being normally 3-carpellate, 
and in the scapes being glandularj-pilose, and the foliage being glandular-ciliate, 
at least towards the base. This plant differs from other spec4es of the genus 
in that it normally develops 3 follicles instead of 2. In other respects it is 
somewhat intermediate between S, virginjpnsis Michx, and S. texana .,but its 
peculiarity in fruiting is sufficient to set it apart as a distinct species. 
Type specimen No. 21047, was collected by Dr. R. G. Reeves, Professor, 
Dept, of Bidlogy, A, & M. College of '^'exas, at College Station, Texas, 2-19-1937. 
The plant grows in central Texas on lufkin soils in open places or old abandoned 
fields. The species in named in honor of its collector. 
