cf 
Tarn. 5171. 
CHAMZEBATIA Fo.Lio.Losa. 
Leafteted Chamebatia. 
Nat. Ord. Rosack®.—IcOSANDRIA MonoGyYnIA. 
Gen. Char. Calycis tubus turbinato-campanulatus ; Jimbus persistens, laciniis 
5 wstivatione valvatis. Petala 5. Stamina numerosa, pluriseriata, ad faucem 
calycis inserta. Ovarium in fundo calycis unicum, erectum, liberum: stylus ex 
apice ovarii erectus, latere interiore fere ad medium fissus et stigmatifer. Ovula 
2, erecta, anatropa. Achenium siccum, calyce inclusum. Semen unicum, erec- 
tum.—Frutex Californicus, ramosissimus ; foliis tripinnatisectis, segmentis ultimis 
confertis numerosissimis ; stipulis lineari-lanceolatis; floribus cymosis, albis. Torrey. 
CHamMazsBatTiA foliolosa. 
Cuammpatta foliolosa. Benth. Plant. Hartw. p. 308. Torrey, Plante Fremon- 
tiana, p. 11. t. 6. 
This is certainly one of the most remarkable of Rosaceous 
plants, in its flowers resembling a shrubby Potentilla, but with 
leaves more resembling the very compound foliage of some species 
of Milfoil (Achillea). It is a native of the “higher parts of 
the Sierra Nevada, as well as the sides of the foot-hills (m great 
abundance), and the mountains of the Sacramento, in California, 
and was first discovered by Colonel Fremont, in 1844,” after- 
wards gathered by Mr. Hartweg and Mr. Shelton; and Messrs. 
Veitch and Sons, of the Exeter and Chelsea Nurseries, have the 
credit of importing living plants, sent by their collector from 
California, which there is every reason to believe will prove hardy 
in our gardens and shrubberies, and assuredly highly ornamental. 
In our figure the flowers alone are taken from dried specimens. 
The genus is allied to Cercocarpus and Purshia. 
Descr. “A shrub, growing from two to three feet high, of 
an agreeable balsamic odour, with very smooth bark, and nume- 
rous upright branches.” Leaves broad-oval or elliptic, nearly 
sessile, very closely and compactly tripinnatifid, the margin ci- 
liated ; primary lobes approximate, linear, oblong, obtuse, patent; 
MARCH lst, 1860. 
