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the elevation of 1,500 feet. Leaves 4 to 7 inches long. thin. Pedi- 

 cels 6 to 9 lines long. Corolla not seen. Testa of the immature 

 seeds reticulated. 



NoTHOCESTRUM BREViFLORUM (sp. nov.) : arboreum, fere gla- 

 brum ; foliis anguste oblongis ellipticis ; corollte tubo calycem 2-4- 

 lobum vix superante. — Hawaii, " between the Great Crater and the 

 upper base of Mouna Roa. A tree 20 feet high, with the trunk 

 5 inches in diameter and the wood greenish : habit of Solandra viri- 

 dis ; the flowers greenish, but small." Pickering. Leaves 2^ to 

 4 inches long, rather coriaceous. Calyx 4^ lines long, 4-nerved. 

 Corolla, &c. nearly as in N. latifolium, but shorter. Fruit not seen. 



Scrophulariacece. 



Calceolaria petiolaris, Cav., is the name of this species, as 

 written by Cavanilles ; but every succeeding author, except Sprengel, 

 has changed it to C. petiolaris, which makes a decided misnomer, and 

 has caused already the introduction of two useless synonymes. 



Calceolaria bartsi^polia, Wedd. Chlor. And. Andes of Peru, 

 above Banos. This we had thus named in our collection long before 

 the appearance of Weddell's work, so obviously appropriate is the spe- 

 cific name. 



Capraria caltcina (sp. nov.) : glabra, humilis ; foliis lanceolatis 

 seu linearibus paucidentatis, dentibus grossis divaricatis plerumque ver- 

 sus basim ; floribus in axillis solitariis; calycis laciniis foliaceis pedun- 

 culo squilongis seu longioribus corollam adasquantibus capsulam super- 

 antibus; staminibus 4; stigmate emarginato. — Hunter's River, New 

 South Wales. The only ground of suspicion as to the correctness of 

 the habitat is, that all the species before known are American. 

 This is related to C. bijlora: it differs in its solitary and short-pedun- 

 cled flowers, and its calyx of twice the size, with lanceolate, foliaceous, 

 accrescent divisions, in flower 4 lines, in fruit half an inch long, some- 

 times slightly denticulate. 



Verhenacece. 



LiPPiA SERiPHioiDES (sp. nov.) : fruticosa, intricato-ramosissima, 

 puberulo-scabrida ; ramis rigidis ; foliis minimis (1-2^-Hn. longis) fas- 

 ciculatis lineari-spathulatis cuneatisve saepius trilobis margine revolutis ; 

 capitulis globosis demum elongandis ex axillis breviter pedunculatis 

 solitariis vel subracemosis ; bracteis ovatis concaviusculis calyce oblongo 



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