Tas. 6266. 
MIRABILIS MULTIFLORA. 
Native of New Mexico and California. 
Ld 
Nat. Ord. NycracrnE”.—Tribe Mrrapiex. 
Genus Mrrasiuts, Linn.; (Hndl. Gen. Plant, p. 311). 
Mrrasiris multiflora, erecta, robusta, glanduloso-pubescens, caulibus obtuse 4-gonis 
divaricatim ramosis, nodis tumidis, foliis oppositis ovato-orbiculatis ovatisve 
acutis v. acuminatis basi rotundatis cordatis v. cordato-2-lobis, floribus mag- 
nis terminalibus, involucris pedunculatis pollicaribus cyathiformibus v. cam- 
panulatis 4-7 floris, lobis late ovatis, perianthii 2-pollicaris tubo infundibili- 
forme, limbi explanati lobis rotundatis, staminibus sepius 5 perianthio sequi- 
longis. 
M. multiflora, A. Gray, in Bot. U.S. and Mex. Bound. Exped. p- 169; Porter and 
Coulter, Synops. Flor. Colorado, p. 115. 
Oxysarnus multiflorus, Torr. in Ann. New York Lye. vol. ii. p. 237. 
Qvamocimp1on multiflorum, Zorr. A. Gray in Sillim. Journ. ser, 2, vol. xv. 
p. 321. 
Nycracinia? Torreyana, Chois. in DC. Prod. vol. xiii. part 2, p. 430, 
This strikingly beautiful plant was raised from Californian 
seeds by Mr. Thompson, of Ipswich, who sent flowering spe- 
cimens to Kew in July of the present year. It has appa- 
rently an extensive range, from the forks of the Platte river, 
in lat. 42° N., where it was discovered by Dr. James in 1820, 
to Mexico, where it was found near Zacatecas, in lat. 23°, 
by Coulter, and subsequently in New Mexico by Wright and 
_ Fendler. I cannot but, however, suspect some mistake as 
regards the Mexican locality, no other botanist has found 
it nearly so far south; and as Coulter collected it also from 
California, it is possible that there has been a misplacement 
of tickets, or a confusion of his bundles of plants, which were 
arranged and distributed after his death by Dr. Harvey, the 
late accomplished and indefatigable keeper of the Herbarium 
of Trinity College, Dublin (of which Dr. Coulter was Professor 
of Botany). The perianth lobes, which are described as 
acuminate by Torrey, Porter, and Coulter, are retuse In our 
specimens, 
