418 SUPPLEMENT. 



flowers short-pedicelled, less crowded or sparse in the fruiting spikes : corolla rotate-cam- 

 panulate, about half as large as in the preceding, light blue, a little exceeding the calyx : 

 capsule oblong, shorter than the spatulate-dilated (3 or 4 lines long) fructiferous sepals, 

 20-30-seeded : seeds oval-oblong, strongly favose-reticulated between the corrugations. 

 With or near the preceding, Orcutt. 



P. Fremontii, TORR., p. I/O. Add syu. : P. Brannani, Kellogg, Proc. Calif. Acad. 

 vii. 90. 



P. bicolor, TORR., p. 170. Extends northward as far as to the plains of Eastern Ore- 

 gon, lloirell. 



P. gymnodada, TORR., p. 170. Specific name not significant. P. Cooperce, Gray, Proc. 

 Am. Acad. xv. 49, of which only a siugle specimen is known, sent by Mrs. Ellwood Cooper 

 from Santa Barbara, may well be only a form of this, perhaps not collected in that district. 

 A wholly peculiar species of this section is the following ; 



P. pachyphylla, GRAY. Stout, a foot or less high, with widely spreading branches, pu- 

 bescent and very viscid : leaves thick, large (inch or two in diameter), roundish and subcor- 

 datc, repand or entire, on stout petioles usually of equal length, uppermost subsessile : spikes 

 dense, pedunculate : corolla campanulate, about 3 lines long, probably blue or purple, a little 

 longer than the calyx: capsule globular, many-seeded, equalling the oblong-linear sepals: 

 seeds oval-oblong, half a line in length. Proc. Am. Acad xix. 88. Alkaline soil in the 

 Mohave Desert, S. E. California, Palmer, Parish, Lennnon, Jones. 



9. ROMANZ6FFIA, Chain. 



B. Unalascllkensis, CHAM., p. 172. This has been collected, quite out of supposed 

 range, at Big Flat, Del Norte Co., N. California, by W. II. Sliocklei/ and Mrs. Awes, 1880. 



R. Sitchensis, BONG., is commonly white-flowered, and with slight pubescence of calyx 

 and capsule. 



12. NAMA, L. P. 173, add : Gray in IIemsl. Biol. Centr.-Am. Bot. ii. 360, 

 for the most recent revision of the genus. Stamens not rarely with adnate por- 

 tion of the filaments dilated into more or less free membranaceous margins, which 



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answer to the internal appendages of the Phaceliece, those in one or two species 

 extended above into a free tooth on each side of filament ! No hypogynous 

 disk, but base of calyx obscurely adnate to base of ovary in the original N. Jamai- 

 cense and some others, in N. stenocarpum calyx-tube and capsule much united ! 

 Styles sometimes united below. Valves of capsule either membranaceous or 

 coriaceous, sometimes becoming bifid, as in N. Jamaicense. 



N. Stenocarpum, GRAY, p. 174. (Biol. Centr.-Am. etc., & Proc. Am. Acad. xviii. 118.) 

 Calyx adherent to the base of the capsule, more or less firmly, sometimes for nearly half the 

 length of thf latter ! Styles united at base or even higher, occasionally 3. Extends to the 

 southeastern border of California. 



N. deprassum, LEMMON. After A T . Conheri, p. 174. Depressed, repeatedly divaricate- 

 dichotomous and with long naked internodes, cinereous-pnberulent : leaves crowded at the 

 summit of the branches, spatulate-lanceolate and tapering into a petiole: flowers short- 

 podirolled in the forks : corolla narrow and small (2 lines long), purplish, little longer than 

 the calyx : sepals some linear, some spatulate-dilated at apex, equalling or moderately 

 exceeding the oval-oblong membranaceous torose capsule: seeds (quarter of a line long) 

 oval, with obscurely undulate thin and smooth coat. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. xx. 304. 

 S. E. California, in the Mohave District near Calico, Lcmtnon. 



N. pusillum, LEMMON. Next the preceding, exiguous, depressed, soft-pubescent : leaves 

 obovate-spatulate or ovate, abruptly contracted into a petiole of nearly same length (both 

 together only a quarter or half inch long) : flowers subsessile in the forks : corolla salverform 

 and narrow (barely a line and a half long), light rose-color, a little longer than the at length 



