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densely silky seeds.—Bluffs and mesas along the upper Rio Grande, mostly above the 
Pecos. 
3. H. Coulteri Gray. Low, 10 to 30cm. high, strigose with appressed stellate hairs: 
leaves strigose, 3-lobed or 3-cleft, the lobes oblong or lanceolate and irregularly 
toothed, or the lowest leaves ovate and undivided: peduncle much exceeding the leat: 
involucel, calyx, and young pod strongly hispid: bractlets 10, linear-setaceous, about 
equaling the lanceolate-acuminate calyx-lobes, and about half as long as the showy 
sulphur-yellow broadly obvoate petals: pod globose, at length glabrate: seeds clothed 
with long woolly hairs.—Hills and mountains of western Texas, west of the 100th 
meridian. 
14. FUGOSIA Juss. 
Like Hibiscus, except that the style is club-shaped and undivided, or 
with short erect branches, and the pod 3 or 4-celled : flowers yellow. 
1. F. Drummondii Gray. Glabrate: stems decumbent, from a perennial root: 
leaves oval, coarsely and irregularly mucronate-dentate, 2.5 to 5 em. long, on rather 
long petioles: bractlets 7 to 9, linear, but little shorter than the calyx: corolla sul- 
phur-yellow or pale yellow, over 2.5 em. in diameter: pod subglobose, glabrous, 
equaling the calyx: seeds with short wool.—Found in Gonzales County many years 
ago by Drummond, but, so far as known, not since found. 
STERCULIACEZ. 
A large tropical and polymorphous family chiefly of shrubs and trees, 
closely related to Malvace@ and Tiltacee, distinguished from the former 
by the 2-celled (rarely 3-celled) anthers, from the latter: by the stamens 
being opposite to the petals, and more or less monadelphous.—The sta- 
mens in ours are 5, with the filaments connate at base, and with inter- 
posed teeth (staminodia) representing abortive filaments. 
* Petals flat and erect or spreading: anthers 2-celled. 
1. Hermannia. Filaments monadelphous at base around the stipe of the ovary ; 
anthers sagittate, with acuminate cells; staminodia none: pod 5-lobed, many- 
seeded. 
2. Melochia. Filaments monadelphous at base into a tube adnate to the claws of 
the petals and which bears 5 alternating tooth-like staminodia; anthers oblong, with 
cells obtuse at both ends: pod sessile, with 5 salient angles and 1-seeded cells. 
** Petals hooded and inflexed at apex: anthers 3-celled. 
3. Ayenia. Filaments united into a pedicellate 5-lobed cup, the anthers sessile in 
the sinuses (the lobes representing staminodia) and of 3 parallel ovoid cells: pod 
warty, with 1-seeded cells. 
1. HERMANNIA Tourn. 
Shrubs (or nearly herbaceous), usually hoary or hirsute with stellate 
pubescence, with alternate stipulate leaves, axillary 1 to many-flowered 
peduncles of yellow or purple flowers, a 5-cleft persistent calyx, spatu- 
late or obovate erect petals with hollow claws, and stamens and pod as 
in generic key. 
1. H. Texana Gray. Leaves roundish to oblong, truncate or cordate at base, 
irregularly toothed: stem, leaves, calyx, ovary, and pod densely stellate pubescent, 
the pod developing also subulate pubescent appendages: anthers more or less pubes- 
cent.—Ravines or stony prairies between the Colorado and the Rio Grande, and 
especially abundant along or near the upper Rio Grande to the extreme western 
border. 
