Cathartolinum wrightii

Cathartolinum wrightii Small, sp. nov Perennial, bright-green, glabrous, the stem usually simple at the base, corymbosely branched above, the branches ascending, stouter than those of C. arenicola but like them terminating in elongate evenly-flowered raceme-like cymes ; leaves few, distant above the base of the stem, alternate, erect or ascending, the blades linear or nearly so, 1-2.5 cm. long, acute, entire, equally green on both sides, sessile; bracts lanceolate-'subulate, glandulartoothed ; outer sepals oblong or ovate-oblong, becoming about 3 mm. long, acuminate, rather coarsely glandular-toothed ; inner sepals ovate, more finely toothed than the outer, acuminate ; petals yellow ; filaments glabrous ; staminodia lanceolate, glabrous ; ovary and distinct styles glabrous; capsules depressed, about 2.5 mm. long, equaling the sepals.
Type collected in western Texas, Charles Wright 71 (in part). Distribution : Known only from the type locality.