Tas. 6911. 
CARPENTERIA catirorntica. 
Native of California. 
Nat. Ord. SaxirraGEu.—Tribe HypRanGEx. 
Genus Carpenterta, Zorr.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 643.) © 
CarrENTERIA californica; frutex subglabra, cortice albo, foliis oppositis snb- 
sessilibus oblongo-lanceolatis obtusis v. subacutis subtus appresse albo- 
tomentillis integerrimis v. remote obscure dentatis, basi acntis, floribus in 
axillis superioribus subcorymbosis pedicellatis amplis albis, sepalis ovato- 
lanceolatis, petalis orbicularibus, staminibus perplurimis perigynis, ovario 5-6- 
loculari basi lata calyce immerso late ovoideo in stylum brevem attenuato, 
stigmatibus 5-6 reflexis, capsula septicide 5-6-loculari. 
C. californica, Torrey Plant. Fremont. vol. vi. p. 12, t. 7; Kellog in Proc. 
Californ. Acad. vol. vii. p. 110; S. Wats. Bot. Calif. vol. i. p. 203; Revue 
Horticole, 1884, p. 365; Masters in Gard. Chron. N.S. vol. xxvi. (1886) 
p- 115, fig. 22.° 
It is singular that the exact native country of so fine a 
shrub as Curpenteria should be doubtful. Torrey, the 
author of the genus, said of it in 1850, Sierra Nevada of 
California, probably on the head waters of the St. Joachin, 
a statement repeated by all subsequent authors, and even 
up to the latest by the ‘ Gardener’s Chronicle,” published 
in the present year. The only native specimens in the Kew 
Herbarium are those collected by Fremont in one of his 
Californian expeditions, but whether of 1843, 1845, or 
1848 is not stated. In all these expeditions Col. Fremont 
collected largely, but a large proportion of the results have 
been lost. Thus of his second expedition (1844), which 
- embraced extensive regions of Oregon and California, a mule 
loaded with botanical specimens procured along a thousand 
miles of travel, fell from a precipice into a deep gorge and 
could not be recovered, and a large part of the remainder 
of his herbarium was destroyed by a flood in crossing the 
_ Kansas River. Again, Torrey tells us that in his third — 
expedition, a very hazardous one, notwithstanding every 
_ precaution, some valuable packages were destroyed through 
the numerous and unavoidable mishaps of such an adven- 
_turous journey. 
pec. Ist, 1886. 
