70 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 
short, 1- to 4-flowered, generally maturing only one, 
on pseudo-axillary pedicels 5 to 9 mm. long; calyx 
pentamerous; petals none; gland annular; styles 3, short, 
2 mm. long, twice bicleft or palmately 3- to 4-cleft; cap- 
sule trigastric, depressed at apex, 5 to 6 mm. tall, 6 to 8 
mm. broad, ochroleucous and coarsely stellate, not muri- 
cate, yellowish; seeds oval, 4 to 5 mm. long, subplano- 
convex; caruncle small.— Dr. Engelmann considered this 
to be but a form of C’. Texensis.* — Plate 31. 
Specimens examined from New Mexico (Wright, no. 1799, 1851-2; 
Vasey, Sucaro, 1881); Mexico (Thurber, no. 760, Sand hills between 
Corrilitas and El Paso, 1852; Berlandier, no. 1407). 
EXPLANATION OF PLATES. 
The drawings were made by Mrs. Grace Johnson Vieh 
and Mrs. M. H. Duffey Irish from herbarium specimens 
selected by the author, and the details were in most cases 
drawn from camera sketches made by him. The habit 
drawings are reduced one half. 
Plate 4, C. Alabamensis.—1, 2, 3, Capsule, pistillate and staminate 
flowers, all x 3. 
Plate 5, C. argyranthemus.—1, Staminate flower, < 4; 2, staminate 
petals, 6; 3, calyx and capsule, X 4; 4, inner view of a coccus, 4; 
5, seed, X 4; 6, Southwest Texas form. 
Plate 6, C. Berlandieri. — 1, Staminate flower, x 4, and petals of same, 
X 6; 2, 3, old and young pistillate flowers, < 4. 
Plate 7, C. fruticulosus.—1, Staminate flower, X 4; 2, capsule, < 4; 
8, seed, x 6. : 
Plate 8, C. Sonorae.—1, Staminate flower, x 6; 2, petal, x 6; 3, 
lower portion of raceme, with pistillate flowers, x 3; 4, seed, x 4. 
Plate 9, C’. suaveolens. — 1, Pistillate calyx, < 6; 2, portion of raceme, 
with pistillate flowers, x 4; 3, capsule, <4; 4, seeds, X< 4. 
Plate 10, C. Torreyanus. — 1, Staminate flower, x 6; 2, pistillate flower, 
X 4; 3, pistillate calyx, x 6; 4, seed, X 5. 
Plate 11, C. Cortesianus. — 1, Pistillate branch; 2, staminate branch; 3, 
part of staminate flower, 4; 4, petal, <4; 5, pistillate calyx, x 8; 
6, young capsule, 4. 
* Bot. Wheeler Exped. 243. 1878. 
