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(areolis pi. m. cavis gynobasin late conicara claudentibus) incurvo- 

 adscendentibus. — Herbaj annuaj, ditfusaj, Eritrichii sect. Plagiohothri- 

 dis facie ; foliis omnibus alternis ; floribus parvulis albis ; pube hirsuta. 

 — Gray in Benth. & Hook. Gen. ii. 854, & Proc. Am. Acad. xi. 89. 



Two species are now known, of very similar aspect ; and it may 

 now be said of the senus that it should stand between Eritrichium and 

 Antiphytum. 



EcHiDiocARYA Artzonica, Gray, 1. c. Corolla fauce plicis mini- 

 mis fere evanidis parum constricta ; nuculis parce cristato-muricatis 

 apice compresso-attenuatis basi productis in stipites crassos iisque tsqui- 

 longos inferne connatos, areola (paris) excavata maxima cava. — 

 This species was founded on a specimen collected by Dr. Smart, of 

 such peculiar character of fruit that it might have been thought to be 

 abnormal. But it is now confirmed by additional specimens, collected 

 in March of this year, near Tucson, Arizona, by my indefatigable and 

 sharp-sighted correspondent. Rev. E. L. Greene.* It is also confirmed 

 essentially, and the character modified, by the detection of a second 

 species, in which, however, each nutlet has a wholly separate stipe. 

 This species may be named 



EcHiDioCARYA Californica. Corolla majore (lobis rotundatis 

 lineas circiter 2 longis) fauce plicis validis puberulis clausa ; nuculis 

 minoribus (lineam longis) minus acutatis dorso rugoso-alveolatis 

 (rugis acutis echinulatis), stipitibus bi-evibus compressis angulo ventrali 

 supra basim ortis discretis, areola carunculiformi parvula concava. — 

 South-eastern California, in San Bernardino Co., 1876, Parry and 

 Lemmon. 



LEPTOGLOSSIS, Benth., subgenus Brachtglossis. 



Corolla plane hypocraterimorpha ; tubo filiformi sub limbo rotato in 

 faucem campanulatam brevem stamina claudentem subito modiceque 

 ampliato. Anther* fertiles 4, superiores 2-3-plo minores : filamenta 

 quinta ananthera. Ovarium baud stipitatum, disco tenuiter cupulato 

 subtensum. Stylus sub stigmate angustiuscule bilobo bialatus. Semina 

 {L. Texance) subreniformia, grosse corrugato-rugosa. Embryo in al- 

 bumine earnoso sublncurvus. — Herbaj Texano-Mexicante, humiles, e 

 radice perenni diffusa^ ; floribus majusculis ut videtur albis. 



Leptoglossis Texana. Multicaulis e basi firma ut videtur suf- 

 fi'utesceute, viscido-pubescens : foliis spathulato-ovalibus vel oblongis 



* At the same station Mr. Greene likewise detected the most singular of all 

 our Borratjinacfv, viz. H(irjia<ioneHa Palincri, before known only from Guada- 

 lupe Island, Lower California. 



