NasH: REVISION OF THE FAMILY FouQureRIACEAE 455 
plant referred to under that name in the preface to Gray’s Plantae 
Novae Thurberianae (Mem. Am. Acad. Arts & Sci. II. 5: 303). 
His description of this tree agrees with a photograph of one made 
by Dr. MacDougal. The trunk arises from the ground for two 
or three feet, and then divides into crooked branches, the ultimate 
divisions of which are pendulous. 
4. Fouquieria peninsularis sp. nov. 
Bronnia spinosa Benth, Voy. Sulph. 16. 1844. Not H.B.K. 
1823. 
A shrub 2-3 m. tall, with a conic panicle and red flowers. 
Leaves on the new growth 5-6 cm. long, petioled: petiole about 
3 cm. long, about as long as the blade: panicle conic, 1.5 dm. 
long or less, its branches ascending, stout, the lower ones some- 
times 4-6 cm. long and usually divided, bearing 2-4 flowers on 
the ultimate divisions in a rather crowded manner, on short stout 
pedicels usually less than 5 mm. long: sepals orbicular or nearly 
so, 5-6 mm. long, apiculate, reddish: corolla red, the tube slightly 
if at all curved, about 1.5 cm. long and 5 mm. in diameter, the 
lobes erect or nearly so, orbicular, acute, 5-6 mm. long: stamens 
exserted, unequal in length, the filaments broadened and com- 
pressed at the base, the inner surface of the compressed portion 
glabrous, the outer surface pubescent with long ascending hairs, 
the remainder of the filament glabrous, the anthers 3-4 mm. long: 
styles united except at the apex: capsule fully 2 cm. long. 
Lower California and western Sonora. 
Specimens examined. — Lower California: La Paz, May. W. 
Rich, Dec. 11, 1847 (type); Turtle Bay, Anthony 144, July—Oct., 
1896; San Bartolome Bay, Chas. F. Pond, March, 1889; Cal- 
malli, Purpus gra, Jan.—March, 1898 ; Cape San Lucas, Yantus 
38. Sonora: Guaymas, Palmer 266, 1890. 
Related to F. splendens, but distinguished by the absence of the 
appendage at the base of the filaments, the more open panicle and 
the larger capsule. 
I have ventured to identify the Bronnia spinosa of the Voyage 
of the Sulphur with this plant, as I have seen material from Cape 
San Lucas, the place from which that plant was secured. The 
_type of this species was secured at La Paz, only about ninety miles 
north of Cape San Lucas. Bentham describes the filaments as 
glabrous, a condition unknown in the genus so far as I have ex- 
