36 BOTANY OF THE VOYAGE OF THE SULPHUR. 
poll. longa, 6-10 lin. lata, acutiuScula, grosse et subqualiter dentata, ba lougingcule angustata et os 
gerrima, crassa, rigida, utrinque dense tomentoso-villosa, supra canescentia, subtus reGaniato-renoee et pin 
minus presertim juniora rufescentia. Cyme breviter pedunculate, ramis 2-3-chotomis divaricatis, ultimns 
breviter scorpioideis. Flores sessiles. Calycis lacinie lineares, hispide, 2 lin. longee. Corolla extus et tus 
sub insertione staminum hispida, calyce sublongior, tubo ampliato et ut videtur en leigacnine contracto, et 
tamen corolle que in specimine unico supersunt plus minus monstruose sunt, et varie taiato-deformates. basse 
lacinie parvee, obtuse, erecto-patentes, intus glabree. Stamina 5, ineequalia, inclusa ; filementa brevia, hirsuta ; 
antheree glabree, ovate, loculis parallelis. Ovarium villosum. Styli gisbriusoult, eorpiiam subeoqusnte, 
Fructus calyce inclusus, conicus, villosus, secedit in valvulas seu semicoccos (vel si mavis nuces incomplete 
clausas) 4, consistentia dura fere ossea, quibus margo altera inflexa semina fert 2-3 ovoidea, testa castanea 
striato-rugosa, albumine subcarnoso, embryone recto. 
A Californian genus consisting now of three species, one of which has been 
figured by Hooker and Arnott under the name of Wigandia? californica (Bot. 
Beech. p. 364, t. 88). It is there observed how very unlike that plant is to the 
South American Wigandia, but it was supposed that in the absence of the fruit 
no essential distinctive characters could be found to remove it from that genus. 
Choisy, however, in his monograph of Hydroleacee, observes that Wigandia, 
however distinct in habit, only differs from Hydrolea in the shape of the corolla 
and the exserted stamens, and in both these respects Wigandia differs also from 
these Californian plants. Thus, even if the difference in the conformation of the 
"fruit should not prove so striking in Douglas’s plant as it is in our Eriodictyon 
crasstfolium, still the characters derived from the flower are sufficient to maintain 
the genus now established. I regret much that in the only specimen I have seen 
of this E. crassifolium (in Mr. Barclay’s collection), the corollas are all more or 
less deformed, apparently by the effect of some insect, so that it is impossible to 
ascertain its precise form. Even the fruits are not in so satisfactory a state as 
could have been wished. The two other species, which I refer to Eriodictyon, are 
both from Douglas’s collection, and are in excellent flower, but not yet in fruit. 
They may be characterised as follows :— 
‘EB. tomentosum, undique niveo-vel subflavescenti-tomentosum, foliis ovali-oblongis dentatis basi angustatis, 
supremis oblongis vix dentatis, cymis pedunculatis densis, floribus villosis, corolla calycem vix excedente.— 
Folia paullo latiora quam in E. crassifolio. Flores numerosissimi, multo minores, 
E, glutinosum, ramis glabriusculis, foliis lanceolatis vix dentatis basi angustatis supra glabris glutinosis 
subtus albo-tomentosis, floribus parce hirtis, corolla calyce 2-3-plo longiore.— Wigandia californica, Hook. 
et Am. l. c. 
HypDRoPHYLLACER. 
122, PHace.ta circinnata, Jacq.—Hook. et Arn. Bot. Beech. p- 374.—San Pedro. 
123. Puaceuia distans, sp. n., scabro-pubescens vel hispida, foliis pinnatisectis, segmentis 
