44 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 
bracts simple or variously lobed or divided, glandular ; 
staminate flowers on pedicels 4 to 8 mm. long; calyx 
equally 5-parted, the sepals ovate to lanceolate; petals 5, 
densely ciliate, equalling the sepals; stamens about 15; 
receptacle tomentose and glandular; pistillate flowers usu- 
ally 2 or more at the base of the raceme, subsessile or short 
pedicelled; calyx teeth oblong, acute; petals reduced to 
small subulate or cylindrical glands; disc with 5 large, 
oblong glands; styles 3, biparted, 3 to 6 mm. long, terete, 
or flattish and sulcate; capsule globose, 6 to 7 mm. long; 
seeds about 5.5 mm. long; calyx not accrescent.—‘‘ The 
C.. suaveolens, a small shrub in the foot hills of mountains, 
exhaling a delicious fragrance, would probably likewise 
make an excellent tea.’’ * — Plate 9. 
Specimens examined from Mexico (Wright, no. 1804, “On the Rio 
Grande’ — Ex Torrey, 1. c.; Pringle, no. 140, Rocky hills near Chihua- 
hua); Texas (Havard, no. 12, Ft. Davis; Nealley, nos. 615= 460, 138, 
both from Limpia Cafion). 
C. Torreyanus Muell. Arg. in DC. Prod. 15?:579. 1866; 
Coulter, Bot. West. Texas 398. 1894. C. suaveolens 
var. oblongifolium Torrey, Bot. U. S. and Mex. 
Bound. Surv. 194. 1859. 
Shrub 1 to 2 m. high, rather straight, slender, with 
velutinously stellate branches; leaves oblong to elongated- 
oblong, generally obtuse at both ends, mucronulate at the 
apex, densely stellate tomentose and whitish below, dark 
green and tomentose above, 3 nerved at base, penninerved 
upwards, 3 to 5 cm. long, 15 to 25 mm. broad; petioles 
short, 7 to 15 mm. long; stipules subulate, 2 to 3 mm. 
long, deciduous; staminate raceme many flowered, 2 to 4 
em. long; flowers with oblong subacute sepals; petals 
oblanceolate, slightly ciliate at base; gland large, thickish; . 
stamens 12 to 15; pistillate flowers generally 3, at base of 
* Dr. Havard, U. S. A., Report on the Flora of Western and Southern 
Texas, in Proceedings of the United States National Museum 8; 514. 
1885. 
