68 ’ MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 
Naturgeschichte 7: 252. 1841; Engelm. and Gray, 
Boston Jour. Nat. Hist. 5:261. 1845; Torrey in 
‘Marcy, Expl. Red River 282. 1854; Hendecandra ? 
multiflora Torrey in Fremont’s First Rept. 96. 1843. 
Oxydectes Texensis Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Plant. 613. 
1891. 
Annual, erect, slender, 4 to 16 dm. high, di- to trichot- 
omous, stellate ; stellates simple, the radiating hairs 10 to 15 
in one series, more or less deciduous; leaves linear, lanceo- 
late or oblong, 4 to 12 cm. long, .5 to 5 cm. broad, apex 
obtuse, acute or sometimes long acuminate, base rounded 
to obtuse, entire; stipules obsolete; petioles about 1 cm. 
long, seldom exceeding 2 cm. ; staminate plant very slender, 
with longer internodes and narrower leaves; staminate flow- 
ers in short racemes, 1 to 3 cm. long, simple or rarely 
branched; bracts setaceous; flowers small, pedicels 4 to 5 
mm. long; sepals thin; petals none; glands oval; stamens 
8 to 12; filaments ciliate; pistillate flowers in short 
racemes of 1 to 4 or rarely more flowers; bracts setaceous 
to subfoliaceous; sepals deltoid; gland annular, sometimes 
lobed; styles about 2 to 3 mm. long, twice or more bicleft ; 
stigmas 12 to 64; capsule 3-celled, 1- to 3-seeded, oval, 4 
to 6 mm. tall, generally muricate; seeds orbicular, 3 to 4 
mm. broad; caruncle prominent. —The size, form and 
degree of pubescence of the leaves are quite variable; other- 
wise the species is reasonably homogeneous throughout its 
range. — Plates 29, 30. 
Specimens examined from Mexico (Berlandier, nos. 288, 1548; 
Schott, II, no. 6, Sta. Cruz, Sonora, 1856; South, San Ignatio Los 
Nogales, Sonora); Texas (Drummond, nos. 256 and II, 266; Lindheimer, 
nos. 241, 277, 805; Havard, nos. 31, 33; Heller, no. 1863; Thurber, no. 1, 
1857; Palmer, no. 1242; Ravenel, 1869; Buckley, 1882; Wright; Letterman, 
no, 444; Pope; Pammel, 1888 ; Sallee, 1885; Reverchon, 1874, no. 874, 1882 = 
Curtiss, no. 2525b; Ferguson, 1900); Alabama (Mohr, no. 1, Danville, 
Talapoosa Co., 1877); Arkansas (Nuttall, Salt River); Missouri (Bush, 
Jackson Co., 1890; no. 3, Independence, 1886) ; Illinois (Hall and Harbour, 
no. 514; Hall, Athens 186-); Iowa (Hitchcock) ; South Dakota (Rydberg, 
no. 998; Hot Springs, Black Hills, 1892); Nebraska (Rydberg, 1890; nos. 
