BULLETIN 



OF THE 



rORREY BOTAiNICAL CLUB. 



Vol. Vlll.l New York, March, 1881. . [No. 3. 



21. Emendation of the Genus Fendlera- 



. By Edward Lee Greene. 



Last September, while exploring the highest rocky summits of the 

 San Francisco Mountains of South-eastern Arizona, I came upon some 

 bushes growing in the rocky crevices, and the first sight of which 

 called forth the exclamation: '' A second species of Fendlera T 



With the typical species of that genus the shrub was indeed con- 

 siderably at variance- The flowers instead of being solitary were in 

 small cymes; the petals were five instead of four; and the filaments 

 were merely subulate, lacking those linear lobes which, in F, rtipi- 

 cola^ are produced beyond the anthers. I was nevertheless very con- 

 fident that the supposed new species would have to go into Fendlera, 

 although the published character of the genus would need modifica- 

 tion in order to admit it. Without giving the plant further study, I 

 labeled my specimens Fendlera cymosa, n, sp., and so distributed a 

 number of them among my correspondents. Familiar as I am with 

 the types of both Fendlera and Whipplea, and knowing that there had 

 been a second species from Utah added to the latter genus within a 

 few years, it never occurred to me that my Arizona shrub could pos- 



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On receiving this somewhat mortifying bit of intelligence, I brought 

 forth my best specimens of the two genera, and, with the original de- 

 scriptions and plates before me, commenced a critical study of all the 

 materials; the result of which is, a settled conviction corresponding 

 with my first impression, that the Whippka Utahensis, Wats, is not 

 of that genus, but a Fendlera ; and in accordance with that convic- 

 tion I subjoin an emendation of the original characters of Fendlera, 

 with descriptions of the two species, fully confident that if my 

 esteemed friend Mr. Watson had been very familiar with Whippka 

 modesta and Fendlera rupicola in their native haunts, and had been 

 favored with good specimens of this in some respects mtermediate 

 species, he would unhesitatingly have placed it in Fendlera, 



FENDLERA, Engelm. & Gray. PL Wright. I., 77- 

 Calyx green-herbaceous, the turbinate tube 8-io-costate, more or 

 less adherent to the ovary, limb of 4*5 lanceolate segments, yalvate; 

 petals 4-5, unguiculate, erose, convolute in bud; stamens 8-io, mserted 



be petals.filaments broad and flat,anthers 2-celled,introrse; styles 

 3-4, stigmas simple; ovary semi-superior, 3-4-celled, with i to several 

 ovules in each cell; ovules pendulous, anatropous; capsule crustace- 

 ous, ovoid- or oblong-conical, more or less adherent to the calyx- 

 tube, splitting from the apex, the divisions pointed with the persist- 

 ent style; seeds with a loose, membranous, reticulated testa, which 



is winged at the base. , ' 



Erect, much-branched, rigid shrubs, with opposite, entire, sub.4es- 



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