Tas. 5134, 
DENDROMECON aricipumM. 
higid Tree-Poppy. 
Nat. Ord. PAPAVERACE®.—PoLYANDRIA MonoGyNIA. 
Gen. Char. Sepala 2, ovata, caduca. Petala 4. Stamina plurima. Filamenta 
filiformia. Anthere lineares, Stigmata 2, sessilia, brevia, crassiuscula, Capsula 
elongata, siliqueformis, 1-locularis, bivalvis; valvis coriaceis, duris, a basi ad 
apicem dehiscentibus. Placente marginales, filiformes. Semina plurima, ma- 
juscula, pyriformia, levia.—Fruticulus dense Soliosus, rigidus, glaber. Folia lan- 
ceolata, acuta, denticulata, penninervia, reticulata, rugosa, rigida. Peduneuli aa- 
illares, uniflori. Benth. 
DENDROMECON rigidum. 
DeNDRoMECoN rigidum. Benth. in Trans. Hort. Soc. Lond. 2nd ser. v.1. p.407. 
Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 37. 
This remarkably fine plant is one of the many interesting — : 
discoveries of the late David Douglas in California, and sand es 
first published as a new Papaveraceous genus by Mr. Bentham, 
in the Transactions of the Horticultural Society, above quoted, 
and well named Dendromecon, or Tree-Poppy; having all the as 
pect and character of the Poppy tribe, but with woody stem and | 
branches. It was long, however, only known in the herbarium, 
but at length reared from seeds sent by Mr. William Lobb to 
Messrs. Veitch and Sons, Exeter and Chelsea Nurseries. It has 
proved quite hardy, and is really a handsome plant, flowering 
in the summer months. 
Descr. A small erect shrub, with terete, straw-coloured, 
woody, alternate branches; the younger ones only herbaceous, 
and these having several small lanceolate scales or abortive 
leaves at their base. Leaves two to four inches long, on short 
petioles, exactly lanceolate, glabrous, acuminate, rigid, carat 
green, penninerved, the nerves meeting and uniting a li : 
within the margin, so as to give a three-nerved ese’ 
the leaf, the interstices reticulated, and the ultimate areoles hav- 
ing free forked veins within them; the margin is cartilaginous 
AUGUST Ist, 1859. 
