Wahlenbergia tuberosa, figured at tab. 6155 of this volume, 

 and it flowered at their nursery in August, 1877. 



Descr. A small tree, ten to thirteen feet high, with an 

 erect slender simple or forked weak cylindrical naked scarred 

 trunk, usually terminated by a single tuft of leaves, and 

 panicle of flowers. Leaves often a foot long, long-petioled, 

 oblong or rounded, obtusely sinuate-toothed or lobed, rounded 

 or cordate and auricled at the base, nerves spreading ; petiole 

 stout, three to six inches long, semiamplexicaul ; uppermost 

 leaves smaller, sessile, deeply cordate and amplexicaul, with 

 broad auricles. .Panicle leafy below, loose, open, decurved, 

 six to eight inches long ; peduncles stout, spreading, and 

 pedicels bracteate throughout their length ; the bracts small, 

 ovate, acute. Heads very large, two and a half inches in 

 diameter, bright orange-yellow. Involucre one and a half 

 inches long, between urceolate and campanulate, truncate at 

 the base ; bracts very numerous, herbaceous, outer ovale, 

 acute, inner linear, acuminate. Florets excessively numerous, 

 quite glabrous ; ligule narrow, minutely 5 -toothed at the tip ; 

 stamens slender, style and its arms very slender. Achene 

 (immature) obovoid, quite glabrous ; pappus short, rufous, 

 rigid.— J". D. II. 



Fig. 1, Reduced view of entire plant of the natural size; 2, floret enlarged. 



