surrounding Acacias and Lysilomas. ‘The finest example 
seen was fifteen feet high or more, with the ends of the 
branches terminated by racemes of flowers in full bloom. 
.... It is found growing as a bush about the high 
altitudes of the mountains, and during my visit withstood 
slight frosts, proving that it is somewhat hardy, and 
would grow in a more northern climate, and perhaps be 
capable of becoming an ornament to the gardens of San 
Francisco.” 
Our plate was prepared from specimens communicated 
by Sir Thomas Hanbury, K.C.V.O., La Mortola, Venti- 
miglia, in July, 1905. At La Mortola, P. apopetala is a 
shrub, three to five feet in height. 
Descr.—A shrub or small tree, two -to fifteen feet high. 
Branches straight, slender, minutely appressed-pubescent. 
Leaves alternate, lanceolate, obtuse, minutely apiculate, 
attenuate into the petiole, one and a half to three 
inches long, half to one and a quarter inches broad, 
entire, glabrescent; veins inconspicuous. liacemes eight 
inches long or less; bracts subulate, very caducous; 
pedicels slender, one-third to half an inch long. Outer 
sepals three, the two anticous ones connate nearly to the 
apex, boat-shaped, a sixth of an inch long, densely ciliate ; 
wings petaloid, suborbicular, half an inch in diameter, ~ 
minutely ciliate. Petals adnate to the staminal tube at 
the base, the posticous ones strap-shaped, nearly half an 
inch long, revolute; lateral petals ovate, obtuse, scarcely 
a twenty-fourth of an inch long; keel clawed, broadly 
boat-shaped, half an inch long, not crested nor appen- 
daged. Staminal tube ciliate on the posticous margins, 
the free part of the filaments glabrous; anthers oblong. 
Ovary glabrous, subsessile; style recurved at the apex, 
the upper third bearded on the inner side; stigma ter- 
minal, Capsule elliptic, broader than long. Seeds ovoid, 
slightly flattened, pubescent; aril minute, scarcely lobed. 
—T. A. Spracor. 
Fig. 1, flower with the two lateral sepals removed ; 2, stamiual tube; 3 and 
4, anthers, before and after dehiscence; 5, pistil :—adl enlarged. 
