Tan; Obl. 
CALAN DRINIA opposirirotta. 
Native of Oregon and California. 
Nat. Ord. PortuLaceZ. 
Genus Caranprinia, H. B.& K.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 158.) 
CaLANDRINIA oppositifolia ; perennis, radice fusiformi carnoso, foliis radicalibus 
confertis oblanceolatis obtusis, caulinis inferioribus oppositis v. suboppositis, 
caulibus scapisve elongatis prostratis longe nudis, apicibus ascendentibus 
paucifloris, floribus amplis longe pedicellatis, bracteis parvis, sepalis orbi- 
cularibus dentatis eglandulosis, petalis 10 lineari-oblongis, stigmatibus 5, 
seminibus estrophiolatis. 
C. oppositifolia, S. Wats. in Proc. Amer. Acad. vol. xx. p. 355; A. Gray l. ¢. 
vol. xxii. p. 276 (sub C. Cotyledon). 
Of the genus Calandrinia (of which upwards of sixty 
species are known) several have been figured in this work, 
chiefly South American, some of which, as C. grandiflora, 
Lindl., t. 83369, and C. speciosa, Lindl., t. 3379, are large- 
flowered and very handsome plants. These, however, are 
warm country annuals with five petals, whereas C. oppo- 
sitifolia belongs to a small section of the genus that in- 
habits mountain regions in North America, with perennial 
fleshy roots, and six to ten petals, and differs further in 
having smooth shining seeds. : 
C. oppositifolia is a native of the mountains of Oregon, 
and North California, and closely resembles C. Cotyledon, 
another species of those regions, differing chiefly in habit. 
The delicacy of its white blossom is its great recommenda- 
tion to the Horticulturist. The plants here figured were 
raised from seed sent from the Harvard Botanical Gardens, 
which flowered in the Royal Gardens in the summer of last 
year. 
Desor. Root fusiform, fleshy, crown throwing out a tuft 
of leaves and prostrate terete fleshy flowering stems, which 
are six to ten inches long, few-flowered, about as thick as 
a crow-quill, greenish-white, and succulent. Leaves two 
to four inches long, the few on the flowering stems opposite 
Aprit lst, 1889. 
