242 A New Epilobium. [ZOE 
equally 3-toothed at apex, and usually with two strap-like lobes at 
base, the slender glandular tube nearly half as long as the limb; 
disk flowers long-tubular 5-toothed: stamens long-exserted minute- 
ly sagittate at base: akenes glabrous, compressed, striate, oblique 
at apex, somewhat clavate, curved on the back and straight on the 
inner edge, crowned by a thickened ring; pappus none. 
Highest elevations of the mountains of the Cape region of Lower 
California. Not very abundant, but conspicuous, making masses of 
bloom a yard or more in diameter. 
The oblique compressed akenes, broader at the back, remind of 
Madia. The description is rather fully given because the plant does 
not entirely agree with that of the hitherto monotypic Rumfordia. 
It is, however, a fault which will readily be pardoned by any one 
who has had to delve among the brief and vague descriptions of 
too many of the Mexican Composite. 
The figure in the plate is drawn one-half natural size. 
A NEW EPILOBIUM. 
With Plate xxiy. 
BY T. S. BRANDEGEE, 
EPILOBIUM NiIviuM. Perennial, pubescent, stems in tufts from a 
strong woody base: leaves oblong- or elliptic-lanceolate, pubescent 
on both sides 8-15 mm. long, narrowed to a short stout petiole, 
somewhat fascicled in the axils, the lower opposite, the upper usual- 
ly alternate, all abruptly tipped with a stout subulate gland 14-1 
mm. long: flowers racemose in the upper axils; pedicels shorter 
than the ovary: calyx tube red or reddish, abruptly enlarged above 
the ovary, nearly linear 5-7 mm. long, % the length of the petals; 
lobes spreading, at length deflexed, about 3 mm. long above the 
obconical throat: petals violet - purple, obcordate, 7-10 mm. long, 
twice the length of the longer stamens which are opposite the sepals 
and inserted a little higher in the tube; anthers apiculate: ovary 
few - about 8 - ovuled; style equalling the corolla, the stigma with 4 
short ultimately reflexed lobes: capsule somewhat fusiform, the 
_ few seeds being developed near the center; seeds immature, appa- 
. 
_rently smooth; coma dingy. 
ee Collected September 25, 1892, at an altitude of 5,500 feet, on the 
