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Tas. 5078, 
CGENOTHERA BISTORTA ; Var. Veitchiana. 
Luwisted-fruited Enothera; Mr. Veiteh’s var. 
Nat. Ord. ONAGRARIEE®.—OcTANDRIA MonoeGyYnia. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 3764.) 
nein 
(ENorHERA (§ Spheerostigma) bistorta ; pubescens ramosa viridis, caulibus her- 
baceis erecto-decumbentibus, foliis ovato-lanceolatis acute dentatis inferiori- 
bus _petiolatis supremis ovato-acuminatis sessilibus, floribus in racemum 
foliosum (tune axillaribus) y. bracteatum terminalem dispositis, tubo ool 
infundibuliformis lobis breviore, petalis obovato-rotundatis staminibus op ) 
longioribus, stigmate magno globoso velutino, capsulis quadrangularibus 
emum insigniter tortis. 
(EnorueR« bistorta. Nutt. MS.. Torrey and Gray, Fl. of N. America, v. 1. p- 
- 508. 
@Noruena heterophylla, Nutt, MS., not of Spach (Torrey and Gray). 
Hotostiema Botte. Spach, Onagr. p. 16? 
Var. Veitchii, floribus majoribus speciosis. (TaB. Nostr. 5078.) 
We have here an GQnothera of South California, be go 
by Messrs. Veitch, of the Exeter and Chelsea Nurseries, ; ee 
San Gabriel, through Mr. William Lobb. ‘That it is the 
Gnothera bistorta of Nuttall, of which we have authentic sare 
mens in our herbarium, there can be, we think, no ~~ fe 
is equally certain that, like other species of the genus, 1 th ae 
to vary-much in form and clothing of the foliage, and a c Mr 
and beauty of the flowers. Our native eee ae ‘5 
Lobb (n. 416), of this very plant gives no idea of : Pp as a 
cultivation, which, we think, promises to be one : fv be 
any yellow-flowered plants for bedding out, the s a g : 
humble stature, the flowers large and copious wit hoa tala 
Succession on the racemes, and when fully mane t ; ia 7 
exhibit a dark-orange or blood-coloured spot at the T ie 
each petal, as in some of the Cistus tribe. — Spee - “ed 
and Gray have already noticed one variety with the cap 
OCTOBER Ist, 1858, | 
