174 Notes on Papaveracee. [Zo | 
sessile, acuminate, of thin, delicate texture, 3 cm. long, 1.5 cm. 
wide; peduncles axillary 1-6 cm. long, usually umbellately 4-5 
flowered, sometimes slightly paniculate; pedicels 8-ro mm. long, 
bracts at base ovate and small, or larger and leaf-like; sepals, 
two, 2 mm. long, ovate-lanceolate; petals two, ovate-lanceolate 
or ligulate, shorter than the sepals, hyaline, ochroleucous with a 
shade of purple; stamen one; filament glabrous; anther in dried 
specimens twisted; ovary compressed, glabrous; style shorter than 
the capsule, penicillate; capsule compressed, 2 mm. long, 2-celled, 
2-valved; seeds in each cell, usually 1,sometimes 2, straw-colored, 
striate, 
Common in cafions of the west side of the Cape Region Moun- 
tains, growing under the shade of rocks in very damp locations. 
NOTES ON PAPAVERACE®, 
BY T. S. BRANDEGEE. 
RoMNEYA COULTERI Harv. & R. TRICHOCALYX Eastwood. 
Like so many other members of the order this is a very variable 
plant, even after the segregation of a second species. The two 
grow together side by side in our garden and certainly appear 
abundantly distinct. They, however, differ strikingly from the 
description and figure* given by Miss Eastwood, as the following 
notes will show. ‘The habit of the plants for instance being re- 
versed. 
R. Coulteri: Stems weak and spreading, more branching 
above, leaves thinner, larger; the lower 7-parted, all the divi- 
sions acute, the bract-like leaves under the flower simple and not 
much farther from the flower than in R. trichocalyx. ‘The calyx 
is smooth, more than aninch long, extended into a cone with free 
purplish tips and is somewhat persistent, holding the petals 
upright the first day of expansion. The corolla is twice as large 
and does not expand with the same regularity, the stamens are 
very much more numerous, less conspicuously purple at base and 
the hispid hairs of the fruit are spreading. The convolute ribs 
of the dehiscent pod described by Miss Eastwood are perhaps 
*Proc. Cal. Acad. ser. 3, i. 133-5. 
