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CAPRIFOLIACER. 
62. LonicERA involucrata, Banks.—Torr. et Gr. Fl. N. Amer. ii. p. 9.—San Francisco. 
RuBiacez. 
63. Hedyotis (Ericotis) asperuloides, sp. n., (Plate XIII.) erecta, pusilla, divaricato-ramosa, 
glabra, stipulis minutis ciliatis, foliis lineari-subulatis, pedicellis elongatis filiformibus, calycis tubo 
ovato-turbinato, capsula apice brevissime libera.—Cape San Lucas. 
Tlerba annua, tripollicaris vel vix semipedalis, ramis dichotomis filiformibus obscure tetragonis scabriusculis. 
Folia vix semipollicaria, infima et superiora breviora, angustissima vel rarjus supra medium subdilatata. Stipule 
vix conspicue, utrinque breviter ciliato-2-3-fide. Pedunculi in axillis vel dichotomiis superioribus vel ad 
apices ramulorum 4-8 lin. longi, gracillimi. Flores quam in H. cwrulea graciliores. Calycis tubus 1 lin. 
longus, dentes anguste lanceolati, tubo paullo breviores, per anthesin approximati, in fructu inter se distantes. 
Ovarium fere ad apicem adnatum. Corolle tubus tenuis, 2 lin. longus, superne paullo ampliatus, limbi lacinize 
patentes, obovato-oblongee. Antheree oblongo-lineares. Capsula ovata, apice obtusa, vix emarginata, valvulis 
4 brevissimis cruciatim dehiscens, Semina in quoque loculo pauca. 
In placing this little plant in Hedyotis, I have adopted the extended view of 
that genus taken by St. Hilaire and others, as well as by Torrey and Gray. 
There is much doubt, it is true, whether such natural groups as Kadua, Kohautia, 
&c., might not be sufficiently well characterised to be maintained as separate 
genera; but it is clear that the greater or lesser degree of adherence of the 
ovary and capsule will not give any positive line of demarcation between Hous- 
tonia and Anotis, and that the characters by which these have been distinguished 
from Hedyotis and Oldenlandia are of little importance, and not always consonant 
with habit. The species now described, as well as the following, would belong 
to the section Houstonia of Torrey and Gray, except that the stipules, though 
very minute, are not always perfectly entire, but it might be better to restrict that 
section to those species which have the ovary free, at least from the middle up- 
wards, and to adopt De Candolle’s section Ericotis, for those which like this one 
as well as H. minima, Torr. and Gr., have the calyx adherent almost to the sum- 
mit of the ovary, as their narrow heathlike leaves give them all at the same time 
a peculiar habit. 
Plate XIII. fig. 1, pair of leaves showing the stipules; fig. 2, flower; fig. 3, corolla cut open; 
fig. 4, longitudinal section of the ovary; fig. 5, capsule ; fig. 6, seed, all magnified. 
64, Hepyoris (Ericotis) mucronata, sp. n., fruticulosa, erecta, ramosa, glaberrima, stipulis 
minutis, foliis linearibus subfasciculatis mucronato-acutis margine subrevolutis crassiusculis, floribus 
subsessilibus in cymis terminalibus paucis.—Bay of Magdalena. — 
Fruticulus semipedalis ad pedalis, subdichotome ramosus. Ramuli tetragoni. Folia subsemipollicaria, 
