mens, and these precisely resemble the Californian in all 
apparent characters of habit, foliage, flower, and fruit, except 
that, according to Bentham in the Genera Plantarum, the latter 
appears to dehisce by one suture instead of two or three. 
I find, however, great variability in the dehiscence of the 
capsules of D. pulchella ; and as the seeds of the Californian and 
Chilian plants are otherwise identical, there are no apparent 
grounds for the separation. If the union of these be 
contirmed, it will add another to the already numerous list of © 
plants common to Chili and temperate Western §8. America, 
which are absent in intermediate latitudes, 
Drscr. A very variable, perfectly glabrous annual, erect 
ot prostrate or ascending, with stout or slender branches from 
the root 6-18 inches long. Leaves emarginate one half to one 
inch long, opposite or alternate, fleshy, sessile, linear, linear- 
oblong, or ovate-oblong, acute or obtuse, quite entire. 
Howers very variable in size, sessile, axillary in the upper 
leaves, forming leafy racemes. Calyzx-tube linear, exceeding 
the leaves ; lobes five, linear-oblong, obtuse, fleshy, spreading. 
Corolla 1-3 inch in diameter, pale violet-blue, with a yellow 
area surrounded with a white border on the lower lip; 
tube very short, obconic; lips very spreading; upper smaller, 
divided to the base into two nearly parallel lanceolate obtuse 
Segments ; lower much larger, nearly quadrate, but broader 
than long, 3-lobed, the lobes very obtuse. Capsule one to 
nearly 3 inches long, linear, obtusely 3-angled, 1-celled, 
many-seeded, splitting longitudinally into 2-3 membranous 
placentiferous valves. Seeds minute, shortly fusiform, acute 
at both ends » testa smooth, pale brown.—J. D. H. 
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Fig. 1, Flower, magnified. 
