24 RUBIACE.E. Bouvardia. 



Mag. t. 1854; Lindl. Bot. Keg. xxvi. t. 37. B. Jacquint, H"BK. 1. c. 385; DC. Prodr. iv. 

 365 ; Gray, PI. Wright, ii. 67. B. quatemifolia, DC. 1. c. "\ B. coccinea, Link, Enum. i. 139. 

 B. ternifolia, Schlecht. in Liuu. xxvi. 98. B. splcnilens, Graham in Bot. Mag. t. 3781. Ixora 

 ternifolia, Cav. Ic. iv. t. 305. /. Ann ricana, Jacq. Hort. Schocub. iii. t. 257. Houstonia coc- 

 ci 'in a, Audr. Bot. Kep. t. 106. Rocky ground, S. Arizona, &c., Wriyltt, Thurler, liotlirock, 

 Prinijle, Lemmon. (Mex.) 



"Var. angustifolia. Cinereous-pnberolent or hirtellous : leaves smaller (8 to 18 lines 

 long), subsessile, less veiny, from oblong-lanceolate to almost linear. B. hirttlla & B. anyus- 

 tifolia, HBK. 1. c. 384. B. hirtella, Gray, PL Wright, i. 80, ii. 67. S. W. Texas to Arizona, 

 Wright, &.*. (Mex.) 



4. HOUSTONIA, Gronov. (Named by Gronovius, as says Linnaeus, in 

 memory of Dr. Win. Houston, who died in Jamaica in 1733.) --Low herbs, 

 or one or two suffruticulose (Atlantic-American and Mexican), with heterogone- 

 dimorphous flowers ; the corolla blue or purple to white, upper 'face of lobes 

 sometimes puberulous. L. Hort. Cliff. 35, & Gen. ed. 1 (1737) ; Juss. Gen. 107 ; 

 Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. iv. 313, & Man. ed. 5.-212; Benth. & Hook. Gen. ii. GO. 

 Hedijotis in part (Wight & Arn.), Torr. & Gray, Fl. ii. 30. (Macrohoustonia, 

 Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. iv. 314, is a peculiar group of Mexican species, between 

 this genus and Bouvardia.^) 



1. EUHOUSTONIA. Low herbs, comparatively small-flowered : leaves not 

 rigid : capsule more or less didymous or emarginate, sometimes septicidal as well 

 as loculicidal across the broad summit. 



* Delicate species, inch to span high: corolla salverfovm : anthers or stigmas included or only par- 

 tially emerging from the throat: peduncles single, elongated and erect in fruit: seeds rather few 

 acetabuliform with a deep hilar cavity: stipules a transverse membrane uniting the petioles, 

 mostly entire or truncate and naked. 



H Perennial by delicate filiform creeping rootstocks or creeping stems: peduncles filiform, inch or 

 two long: seeds subglobuse with orifice of the deep hilar cavity circular. 



H. CSerulea, L. (BLUETS of the Canadians, IXXOCENCE.) Perennial by slender rootstocks, 

 forming small tufts, erect, a span or more high, glabrous, and with lower leaves hispidulous : 

 these spatulate to obovate and short-petioled ; upper small and nearly sessile : corolla violet- 

 blue to lilac, varying to white, with yellowish eye; tube (2 or 3 lines long) much exceeding 

 calyx-lobes, longer than or equalled by those of corolla : capsule obcordate-depressed, half 

 free. Spec. i. 105 (Moris. Hist. sect. 15, t. 4, f. 1 ; Pink. Aim. & Mant. t. 97, f. 9) ; Sims, 

 Bot. Mag. t. 370; Barton, Fl. Am. Sept. t. 34, f. 1. H. pusilla, Gmel. Syst. i. 236 ? //. Lin- 

 ncci, var. elntior, Michx. Fl. i. 85. //. serpyllifolia, Graham, Bot. Mag. t. 2822, from habitat 

 and figure, but corolla-tube too short. Hedyotis ocnt/ra, Hook. Fl. i. 286 ; Torr. & Gray, 

 Fl. ii. 38. //. gentianoides, Endl. Iconogr. t. 89. OWm/am/ia ccrrulea, Gray, Man. ed. 2, 174. 

 Low and grassy grounds, Canada to Michigan and the upper country of Georgia and 

 Alabama ; fl. early spring. 



H. serpyllifolia, MICHX. Perennial by prostrate extensively creeping and rooting fili- 

 form stems, and some subterranean ones, glabrous or slightly and minutely hispidulous 

 below : leaves orbicular to ovate or ovate-spatulate (2 to 4 lines long) and abruptly petioled, 

 or upper ones on flowering stems oblong and nearly sessile : corolla deep violet-blue, rather 

 larger than in //. cccrulea. Fl. i. 85; Pursh, Fl. i. 106. //. tcnella, Pursh, 1. c. Iledyotis 

 serpijllifolia, Torr. & Gray, Fl. ii. 39. Oldenlandia srr/)i///it'o'in, Gray, Man. ed. 2; Chapm. 

 Fl. 180: Along streamlets and on mountain-tops in the Alleghanies, from Virginia to 

 Tenu. and S. Carolina; flowering through early summer. 



"l "*~~ Winter-annuals, branching from the simple root, glabrous or obscurely scabrous: pedun- 

 cles a quarter-inch to at length sometimes an inch long: capsule somewhat didymous, less than 

 half free: mature ?ecds generally as of the preceding. 



H. patens, ELL. An inch to at length a span high, with ascending branches and erect pe- 

 duncles : leaves spatulate to ovate: corolla much smaller than that of H. ccerulea ; the tube 

 twice the length of the calyx-lobes and more or less longer than its lobes, violet-blue or pur- 



