4 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



Described from four specimens (the largest 5h inches long) 

 collected in Arizona by Mr. J. G. Lemmon, for whom the 

 species is named. These specimens have been donated by 

 the collector to the California Academy of Sciences. 



Mr. Lemmon states that he found these fishes in Rillitto 

 Creek, a small stream of the Santa Catalina Mountains, seven 

 miles north of Tucson, Arizona, and that the largest ones 

 caught were about ten inches in length. 



Academy of Sciences, Sail Francisco, Cal., December 1, 1883. 



BOTANIC SECTION. 



VEATCHIA nov. Gen. Anacardiacearum. 



BY ASA GEAY. 



Mores dioci; tf ignoti: 9 — Sepala 5, brevia, deltoideo- 

 ovata; nestivatione subCvalvata, immutata. Petala 5, ovato- 

 oblonga, a^stivatione imbrieata ; costa extus prominente 

 carinata, evenia, scarioso-accrescentia, persistentia. Sta- 

 mina sterilia 10, minuta, sed antherifera, sinukis disci 

 pateiaeformis 10-crenulati inserta. Ovarium ovatum, sub- 

 obliquum: styli 3, subulati: stigmata capitata. Ovulum 

 fimiculo elongato supra-basilari adseendente pendulum. 

 Fructus immaturus utriculatus (corollam marcescentem 

 haud superans), compressus, apice hinc exciso obliquus, 

 pericarpio prorsus membranaceo haud alato. Frutex 

 pinnatifolius; floribus parvis paniculatis rubellis vel 

 (ut dicitur) laete rubris. 



Veatchia Cedrosensis. 



Foliis canescenti-puberulis ; f oliolis 3 — 5-jugis cum impari 

 ovatis ovalibusque parvis (lin. 1 — 3-longis) integerrimis, 

 vel obsolete paucidentatis, terminali quandoque trilobo; 



