452 Nasu: REVISION OF THE FAMILY FOUQUIERIACEAE 
Corolla-tube 3-4 mm. in diameter: sepals oval: panicle-branches 
slender. 3. &, Macdougalit. 
Corolla-tube § mm. in diameter: sepals orbicular : panicle-branches 
stout. 4. F. peninsularis. 
Filaments with a scale-like appendage near the base: panicle long and 
narrow : shrubs with long slender simple branches. 
5. &, splendens. 
Corolla campanulate, the tube about equalling the lobes. 6. F. campanulata. 
1. Fouquieria fasciculata (R. & S.) 
Cantua fasciculata R. & S. Syst. 4: 369. 1819. 
Fouquieria spinosa H.B.K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 3: 452. 1820. 
Bronnia spinosa H.B.K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 6: 84. pl. 528. 
1823. 
Cantua spinosa Willd.; H.B.K. Nov. Gen. & Sp.6: 84. 1823. 
Echeveria paniculata Mocino & Sessé; DC. Prod. 3: 350- 
1828. 
A tree 4 m. tall or more, with white fragile wood and round 
glabrous spiny branches. Leaves fascicled in the axils of the 
spines, obovate-oblong, rounded at the apex or sometimes emar- 
ginate, cuneate at the base, glabrous, shining, about 2.5 cm. long 
and 9-10 mm. wide: panicle terminal, corymbose, much-branched, 
its branches glabrous: capsule about 1 cm. long: sepals nearly 
orbicular, about one fourth as long as the capsule: seeds oblong, 
compressed, the margin membranous-winged, the inner surface 
concave, the outer convex, brown, glabrous, the wings nearly en- 
tire, emarginate at the apex and at the base; episperm thinly 
membranous, adhering to the endosperm which is thin and fleshy; 
embryo included, straight, almost as long as the endosperm, com- 
pressed ; cotyledons leafy, ovate, obtuse, cordate at the base, 
fleshy ; radicle cylindric, somewhat acute, one third as long as the 
cotyledons. 
The above description is drawn from the original in the work 
of Humboldt, Bonpland and Kunth, cited above. I have seen no 
specimens of this species, but its corymbiform panicle is unlike 
that of any of the others. The type material was in fruit only, 
and was secured at Puente de la Madre de Dios, at an altitude of 
about 5,280 feet. This place is somewhere in the neighborhood 
of Mexico City or Actopan, but it has not been possible for me, 
up to the present time, to locate it more definitely. 
It is interesting to note here that this is the type of Fouquicria, 
a monotypic genus at that time, which was based on Cantua fasctc- 
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