CALIFORNIA. 7 
This species is probably allied to K. pauciflora DC., very imperfectly 
described from a drawing of a Mexican plant; but in his short character the 
leaves are said to be oblong-linear, which is scarcely applicable to the K. parvi- 
folia. 
VIOLACER. 
4. Ionrp1um fruticulosum, sp. n. (Plate IL.) humile, erectum, ramosissimum, pubescens, foliis 
alternis linearibus integerrimis, stipulis parvis, floribus breviter pedunculatis, sepalis ovatis obtusius- 
culis, labello subsessili calyce dimidio longiore, staminum filamentis brevibus, 2 anticis supra basin 
glandula gibbis, squamulis ovatis, capsulis trigonis glabris calyce duplo longioribus.—Cape San 
Lucas. 
Fruticulus habitu Thesii, ramulis 3-4-pollicaribus, viridibus, pilis adpressis puberulis. Folia basi in 
petiolum angustata, 6-10 lin. longa, Flores parvi. Sepala margine membranacea, Petala parum ineequalia, 
quatuor superiora calycem zequantia, labellum vix dimidio longius, Semina plerumque sex, obovoideo-compressa, 
pallida. 
Plate II. fig. 1, flower ; fig. 2, petals; fig. 3, stamens; fig. 4, style, all magnified. 
FRANKENIACER, 
5. FRANKENIA grandifolia, Cham, et Schlecht. Linnea, 1. p. 35.—San Pedro. 
MALVACEz. 
6. Hisiscus (Bombicella) denudatus, sp.n. (Plate III.) suffruticosus? dense stellato-tomentosus, 
foliis lato-ovatis orbiculatisve crenatis, pedunculis axillaribus petiolo vix longioribus, involucello 
nullo vel ad bracteolas tuberculiformes reducto.—Bay of Magdalena. 
Rami divaricati, uti folia pedunculi et calyces tomento denso flavicantes, Folia 1-14-pollicaria, distantia, 
mollia, sub-5-nervia, basi cuneata vel rotundata, petiolo 2-4 lin. longo. Pedunculi semi-pollicares. Involu- 
cellum nune omnino nullum, nunc ejus loco tuberculi adsunt in lana fere absconditi. Calyx profunde 5-fidus, 
laciniis lanceolatis fere 4 lin, longis. Petala pollicaria, tenuiter ciliata. Columna staminea pistillo dimidio 
brevior, a basi tecta antheris stipitatis, stipitibus seepe 2-3-furcatis. Stylus apice breviter 5-fidus. Capsula 
calyce paullo brevior, depresso-globosa, 5-angularis, 5-valvis, valvulis medio septiferis, a columna centrali tenui 
persistente (ut in plerisque Bombicellis) solutis. Semina in quoque loculo pauca, angulo centrali affixa, lana 
involuta. 
Plate III. fig. 1, bud; fig. 2, staminal column and style; fig. 3, capsule; fig. 4, the same, cut 
open ; fig. 5, seed, all magnified, 
The technical character derived from the calyx and capsule would almost 
place this plant in Lagunea, of which it has neither the stamens and stigmata, 
nor yet the habit or station. It has the habit and, with the exception of the 
