456 Nasu: REVISION OF THE FAMILY FOUQUIERIACEAE 
amined it. Otherwise his description agrees well with this plant, 
and as the filaments are pubescent only toward the base the pubes- 
cence might readily be overlooked. 
5. FOUQUIERIA SPLENDENS Engelm. in Wisl. Mem. Tour Mex. 98. . 
1848. 
Fouquieria spinosa Torr. in Emory, Mil. Reconn. 147, f/. 8. 
1848. Not H.B.K. 1820. 
A branching shrub, the long slender branches arising from near 
the base, sometimes to a height of 4-6 m., with a narrow panicu- 
late inflorescence and red flowers. Leaves of the new growth 3-5 
cm. long, petioled ; petiole about one half as long as the blade; 
blade 2-3 cm. long, 5—7 mm. wide, narrowly elliptic to oblanceo- 
late, acute at the apex, narrowed at the base: fascicled leaves 
I-1.5 cm. long, 5-8 mm. wide, narrowly obovate to obcordate : 
panicles narrow, solitary or several at the apex of the stem, 5-20 
cm. long, the branches usually short and with the few flowers 
- crowded: sepals broadly oval to nearly orbicular, 5-8 mm. long, 
obtuse or rounded at the apex : corolla red, the tube straight, 15 
18 mm. long, gradually a little enlarged toward the apex, 4-5 
mm. in diameter at the middle, the lobes spreading and recurved 
or enrolled, broadly oval to orbicular, obtuse at the apex or some- 
times apiculate, 4-5 mm. long: stamens exserted, unequal in 
length, the filaments broadened and dorsally compressed at the 
base, the compressed portion running out laterally into a scale-like 
appendage which is pubescent on the upper surface and o0.5—-I mm. 
long, the inner surface of this broadened portion glabrous, the 
outer surface pubescent with long stout hairs, the remainder of the 
filament glabrous; anthers about 4 mm. long, oblong, abruptly 
acute, cordate at the base : styles more or less united, only toward 
the base, or nearly to the apex: capsule 1~1.8 cm. long. 
Western Texas and northern Mexico to southern California 
and northern Lower California. 
Specimens examined.—Texas: El Paso, G. R. Vasey, May, 
1881, and L. H. Dewey, June 15, 1891; Wright 228, October, 
1849. Mexico: Chihuahua and Sonora, Thurber gor, May, 18515 
Coahuila, Palmer 80, 1880; San Pablo, Gregg, April 30, 1847- 
New Mexico: Grant Co., Mearns 46, 1892; Little Mt., near Las 
Cruces, Wooton, May and July, 1893. Arizona: Tucson, Zoumey, 
April 20, 1894 ; Tucson Mts., Toumey 465, 1892; Willow Springs, 
Jones, May 29, 1890; Gila Valley, Rothrock 319; foothills, Prin- 
