1679 
PLATYSTÉMON Califórnicum. 
Califorman Platystemon. 
POLYANDRIA POLYGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. PAPavERACEX. Juss. (Introduction to the Natural System of 
Botany, p. 8.) 
PLATYSTEMON Bentham. Flores trimeri! Sepala 3, hispida. 
Petala 6, ordine duplici. Stamina subindefinita ; filamentis petaloideis ; an- 
theris linearibus rectis. Carpella 9-12, collateralia, stigmatibus linearibus erectis 
simplicissimis ; matura leviter coherentia, indehiscentia, cartilaginea, torulosa ; 
in articulos ' transversos monospermos secedentia. Semina levia, ecristata ; al- 
bumine oleoso. Herba (Californica), annua, tenera, foliis (v. potius 
petiolis dilatatis aphyllis) linearibus paralleliveniis, alternis et verticillatis, 
sepe unilateralibus ; floribus terminalibus et axillaribus longe pedunculatis. 
Platystemon Californicum ; Bentham in Hort. Trans. vol. 1, n. s. p. 405. 
Herba annua, erecta, subramosa, succulenta, pilis sparsis in pedunculis 
calycibusque rigidioribus rar vestita. Folia lineari-oblonga, sessilia, ob- 
tusá, venis monocotyledonearum more parallelis, inferiora alterna, intermedia 
3 uncias longa sub-verticillata, suprema minora situ variantia. Pedunculi 
axillares et terminales foliis guadruplô longiores, ascendentes, stricti, uni- 
Jori. Sepala tria, concava, decidua, Papaveris more. Petala 6, duplici serie 
disposita, ovata, pallide lutea, interiora paulò minora. Stamina plurima, 
numerosa, hypogyna ; filamentis petaloideis, antheris linearibus lateraliter 
dehiscentibus, innatis, brevê unguiculatis. Carpella 9-12, dorso _hispida, 
seriebus pluribus ordinata, omnind sejuncta, stigmatibus totidem linearibus 
erectis ; matura subcalva, coriacea, torulosa, transversim in articulos mono- 
$permos secedentia, in formam cylindraceam aggregata, stigmatibus lineari- 
bus parum divergentibus terminata. 
A native of California, whence it was sent by Mr. David 
Douglas to the Horticultural Society, in whose garden it 
flowered last September; the few seeds it produced have 
failed to vegetate, and the plant is therefore lost to our gar- 
dens ; fortunately, however, our drawing was made before 
the specimen had withered. 
* So named from zAarvc broad, and arnpwy a stamen, yh 
breadth of the filaments. 
