figure was taken. Humsoxpr detected it first in elevated 
laces about Moran and Villalpando. Anprieux found it 
mn Oaxaca, and Hartweec at Zacatecas. Although there is 
no question that our plant is the same with the A. pungens 
of Humsoxpt and Kunru, yet it may admit of great doubt 
if that species be distinct from the Arsurus tomentosa of 
Pursn and Hoox., Bot. Mag. tab. 3320; one of the forms 
of the var. 8, there noticed, and which variety we consider- 
ed the southern state of the plant. Certainly our Califor- 
nian variety, noticed in the Botany of Beecury’s voyage, is 
identical with the Mexican pungens. Its chief character- 
istics are the absence of hairs on the stems and petioles and 
the smaller size of leaves, which are more acute, more 
obtuse, or cordate at the base. Hitherto it has been 
treated as a greenhouse plant ; but probably, this, as well 
as the more northern A. tomentosa, will be found to bear 
our winters with impunity in the open air. 
Descr. Our plant has attained a height of a foot and a 
half, is much branched ; the branches rounded ; the younger 
ones green and downy, the rest glabrous. Leaves an inch 
to an inch and a half long, elliptical, spreading, coriaceous, 
single-nerved, quite entire, acute at the base, almost acu- 
minate and pungent at the point. Racemes short, eight to 
ten-flowered, terminal, drooping. Calyx of five deep, con- 
cave, fringed, greenish-white segments. Corolla urceolate, 
white, tinged with greenish-rose colour, with five short, 
spreading teeth. Stamens ten. Filaments subulate, hairy, 
contracted at the base. Anthers with two pores, and 
oO long, flexuose awns. Ovary on a gilan- 
Fig. 1. Flower with Bracteas, 2, F] laid 3. Cal d 
Pistil 4. Stamen :—magnified. ( Reetiiee reese © 
At Tas. 3904, for “ ARcrosTaPHyLos nitida,” read “ ARCTOSTA- 
hice discolor.” The former name was written at the time when 
Ha plant was supposed to be the A. nitida of Mr. BentTHAM, (Plant. 
artw. n. 483,) and omitted to be altered afterwards. 
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