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STREPTANTHUS OBTUSIFOLIUS. BLUNT-LEAVED 
STREPTANTHUS. 
SEEKER KEKE EEE KKK EEE 
Class and Ontler: . 
TTETRADYNAMIA SILIQUOSA. 
( Nat. Ord.—Crucirer2. ) 
Generic Character. 
Calycis foliola erecta, acuminata, colorata, basi saccata. 
Staminum filamenta subulata, brevia. Anthere elongate, 
acuminate.  Siliqua longissima, tetragono-compressa. 
Semina uniseriata compressa, marginata. Cotyledones 
accumbentes.—F lores purpurascentes. 3 
Specific Name and Character. 
Srreprantuus obtusifolius ; foliis ellipticis obtusissimis basi 
profunde bilobis amplexicaulibus. 
In the beginning of last year, Dr. SHorr of Lexington, 
Kentucky, sent me some seeds of the present plant, which 
he received under the name of “ Arkansa Cabbage,’’ from the 
hot-springs of the Arkansa territory. These were sown in 
the Glasgow Bot. Garden and produced plants, whose fo- 
liage and inflorescence so nearly resembled those of Morr- 
CANDIA arvensis, (Bot. Mag. t. 3007,) that I was at first, 
notwithstanding the singular locality, almost induced to 
believe they were the same. But an examination of 
flowers and fruit soon led to a different conclusion. 
Here the calyx-leayes are remarkably acuminated, and 
singularly membranaceous, all of them hollowed and sac- 
cate at the base; the petals have a peculiar twist. The 
filaments of the stamens are short and subulate, the anthers 
very long and acuminated ; the style almost wanting. The 
seeds flat and broadly margined, the cotyledons flat. tes 
