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ceolatee. Columna staminea petalis vix brevior, antheris 8-10 breviter stipitatis ineequaliter biseriatis, Cap- 
sula pedicello 2-3 lin. longo imposita, sericea, tricocea, axi vix 2 lin. longa. 
I have seen but a single specimen, and that not so satisfactory a one as could 
be wished, of this plant, but it is evidently distinct from any of the genera hitherto 
enumerated amongst Crotonee, and has a habit very similar to that of two new 
Texian species from the late Mr. Drummond’s collections, in which also the 
same generic characters have been verified in excellent specimens. The following 
specific diagnoses will serve to characterise them. 
S. Drummondi, caulibus erectis strictis sericeo-pilosis, foliis sessilibus elliptico-oblongis ad venas pilosis, 
spicis gracilibus multifloris folio multo longioribus, floris masculi glandulis linearibus glabris.—Texas, Drum- 
mond, n. 245 of the 2d collection, and n. 317 of the 3d coll. 
S. pilosissimum, caulibus erectis strictis appresse pilosissimis, foliis inferioribus obovatis subpetiolatis, 
superioribus ovato-lanceolatis omnibus longe pilosissimis, spicis gracilibus multifloris folio multo longioribus, 
floris masculi glandulis obovato-lanceolatis piloso-hirtis—Texas, Drummond, n. 263 of the 2d coll. and n. 322 
of the 3d coll. 
179. Eremocarpus setigerus, gen. nov. (Plate XX VI.)—San Pedro. 
Cua. Gen, Flores monoici, in dichotomiis caulis fasciculati, masculi plures pedicellati, pedicellis 
basi subcoalitis, foeminei 1-3, subsessiles. Flores masculi: calyx 5-partitus, estivatione valvata. 
Corolla nulla. Stamina 7-10, disco communi centrali setoso imposita; filamenta libera calyce 
longiora; anthere adnate, oblonge, biloculares, loculis longitudinaliter dehiscentibus. Flores 
foeminei: calyx et corolla nulla. Ovarium stellato-pubescens, oblongum, uniloculare. Ovulum 
unicum, ex apice loculi lateraliter pendulum. Stylus filiformis setosus simplex, apice uncinatus 
glabrior, summo apice stigmatosus. Capsula obovato-oblonga, bivalvis. Semen nitidum. Albumen 
carnosum. Radicula supera, linearis, Cotyledones radicule vix aquilongi, orbiculato-plani. 
Species unica, J. setigerus.—Croton ? setigerus, Hook. Fl. Bor. Amer. v. 2. p. 141.—Herba annua, 
humilis, graveolens, habitu fere Orozophora, undique pube stellata copiosa obtecta et setis longis rigidis 
diaphanis plus minus hispida. Rami divaricati, 2-3-chotome ramosissimi. Folia alterna, vel ad ramificationes 
gemina vel terna, longiuscule petiolata ; lamina pollicaris late ovata, obtusiuscula, subintegerrima, crassiuscula, 
mollis, subtrinervis, basi cuneata vel rotundata. Glandule nulle. Folia superiora gradatim minora, floralia 
suprema parva, bracteseformia, omnia tamen longiuscule petiolata. Flores in dichotomiis inferioribus pauciores 
laxiores, in apicibus ramorum dense fasciculato-cymosi, foliis floralibus circumdati. Pedunculi masculorum 
communes brevissimi, pedicelli calyce longiores vel breviores. Calycis laciniee pube rest se copiose 
obtectee; lineam longe, oblongw, obtuse. Filamenta in centro floris calyce subduplo er ces basi sotoes, 
cxterum glabra. Ovaria in fasciculis inferioribus breviter et crasse stipitata, in superioribus omnino sessilia. 
This plant is remarkable amongst Euphorbiacee from the female organ being 
constantly reduced to a single carpel, in other respects resembling the carpels of 
which the Crotonee are composed. It has something the habit of the European 
Crozophora tinctoria, and has, even in the dry state, a very strong disagreeable 
smell. It was also found by Douglas on the north-west coast, as far as the 
Columbia river, and from a very imperfect specimen was referred, in the Flora 
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