Tas. 6860. 
SYNTHYRIS rentrormis. 
Native of California and Oregon. 
Nat. Ord. ScROPHULARINEZ.—Tribe DiciTaLEm, 
Genus Syntuyris, Benth. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 963.) 
SynTHYRIS reniformis ; glaberrima v. sparse pilosa, foliis longe petiolatis coriaceis 
cordato-rotundatis duplicato-crenatis dentatisve, scapo robusto erecto foliis 
longiore bracteato, racemis multifloris, bracteis oblongis obtusis, pedicellis 
sepalis subsquilongis, corolle pallide violacee tubo globoso, lobis oblongo- 
lanceolatis postico majore 2-dentato, capsula orbiculari 2-fida valde compressa 
pleiosperma, seminibus compressis marginibus tenuibus. 
S. reniformis, Benth. in DC. Prodr. vol. x. p. 454; Hook. Kew Journ. Bot. 
vol. v. p. 257; A. Gray Synopt. Fl. N. Am. vol. ii. pars 1, p. 285; Bot. 
Calif. vol, i. p. 571, in part, and vol. ii. p. 474. 
Wulfenia reniformis, Dougl. in Hook, Fl. Bor. Am. vol. ii. p. 102. 
The genus Synthyris, of which seven species are 
described, all North-Western American, is the New World 
representative of the Wulfenias of the Alps of Eastern 
Europe and the Himalaya, approaching that genus very 
nearly both in habit and characters. Of the described 
Species, two seem to have been a good deal confounded, 
the S. reniformis, Benth., and S. rotundifolia, Gray, from 
the fact of both being figured under the former name in 
the “‘ Flora Boreali Americana,” one in flower and the other 
in fruit. Of these, one, distinguished by Gray as S. rotun- 
difolia, is a small plant, with weak slender scape, shorter 
than the membranous broadly crenate leaves, a small few- 
flowered raceme with slender pedicels, broader sepals and 
corolla-lobes, and, according to Gray, fewer seeds in the 
cells of the capsule. The other, the subject of this plate, 
is a much larger stouter plant, with more acutely cut 
coriaceous leaves, longer stouter scape, and long racemes, 
shorter pedicels, narrow sepals and corolla-lobes, a globose 
corolla-tube and more seeds in the cells. Both were found 
in the mountains near the Grand Rapids of the Columbia 
River and the Blue Mountains by Douglas in 1827, and are 
FEB. Ist, 1886, 
