Villadia painteri Rose

Villadia painteri Rose, sp. nov
Perennial with a short woody base and with several short erect dark bluish-green branches ; glabrous. Leaves numerous, terete, narrowed downward from near the apex and thus club-shaped, obtuse, very pale ; inflorescence a strict interrupted spike or in vigorous plants somewhat panicled, 4-10 cm. long; sepals green, 2 mm. long; corolla drying pinkish and little longer than the calyx, its lobes obtuse ; carpels without styles, but acutish.
Collected by J. N. Rose and J. H. Painter in the barranca of Guadalajara, September 28, 1903 {no. 7424, type), and by C. G. Pringle at the same station and date (no. 11815),
This species is of the V. parviflora type but the leaves are of different shape, the petals smaller and more blunt ; when living it can easily be distinguished by its dark-green color.