GENTIAN ACE^:. 405 



LOGANIACE^E. 



5. BUDDL.EIA, Houston. After B. racemosa, p. 109, add: 



B. Pringlei, GRAY. Nearly glabrous and green, partly herbaceous, much branched : leaves 

 'oblong or lanceolate, acutish, nearly entire (inch or two long), tapering at base into a short 

 marc-hied petiole : flowers in globular and sessile interruptedly spicate glomerules, the upper 

 naked and approximate, the lower remoter in the axils, some short-peduncled : corolla 

 slightly exserted out of the white-tomentulose calyx, a little hairy in the throat: stigma 

 thickish. Proc. Am. Acad. xix. 86. Arizona, in fields near Tucson, Prinyle. Inter- 

 mediate between the Globosce and the Verticillatos. 



GENTIANACE^E. 



To characters of genera add, on p. Ill:- 



1. VOYRIA. Corolla salverform, bearing the stamens below the throat. Anthers short. 

 Stigma undivided. Seeds very numerous, tailed at both ends. 



1. "VOYRIA, Aublet. (Unexplained name.) Leafless and colorless 

 (white) little herbs, of Tropical America, parasitic on decaying trunks, &c., 

 bearing small subulate scales for leaves, in the manner of Bartonia. 

 V. Mexicana, GRISEB. Stems a span to a foot high, slender, bearing a cyme of several 



'flowers : corolla white or flesh- color, a quarter of an inch long. Gent. 208, Prodr. ix. 84, & 



Cat. Cub. 181. No-name Key, S. Florida, Curtiss. (Cuba, Mex.) 



2. ERYTHR^A, Renealm. P. 113, before E. Douglasii, add : 



E. nudicaulis, ENGELM. A span or two high, cymosely branched from the conspicuous 

 'tuft of rather large roundish radical leaves : cauline leaves few, linear : flowers long- 

 peduncled : tube of corolla not surpassing the calyx ; lobes a little shorter, oblong, obtuse : 

 anthers linear-oblong : style much shorter than the ovary : seeds subglobose, reticulated. 

 Proc. Am. Acad. xvii. 222. Along streams in Santa Catalina Mountains, S. Arizona, 

 Pringle. 



E vemista, GRAY. Add : Bot. Mag. t. 6396. This and all the larger-flowered American 

 'species are dichogamous in the manner of Sabbatla, the style in the earlier anthesis declined 

 to one side. 



4. EtTSTOMA, Salisb. 



E silenifolium, SALISB. (Parad. Lond. t. 34), is the name which should have been retained 

 'for E. exaltatum, Griseb. In S. California this certainly becomes perennial, according to 

 Parry and W. G. Wright. 



5. G-ENTlANA, Tourn. Add on p. 116: 



G. GRAcfLLiMA, Bertol. Misc. Bot. xiv. 19, t. 3, is Apteria setawa, Nutt. Add on p. 1 19 : 

 G. jnicrocalyx, LEMMON. Near G. Wislizeni, but taller (sometimes almost 2 feet high), 

 'thinner-leaved, and wholly destitute of crown to the corolla, in this and the habit approach- 

 ing G. quinqueflora, freely branched : leaves ovate-lanceolate, with subcordate sessile base : 



