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stigmatose at the point) included, or sub-exsert ; filaments filiform, 

 glabrous, and slightly thickened above, flattened, and glandularly vil- 

 lous along the base ; anthers very small, glabrous, lobes divaricate. 



This remarkable shrub appears to be closely allied to Galvezia of 

 Dombey. As at present defined, it however differs in the style, not 

 being thickened at the top, nor emarginate ; neither is the stigma two- 

 lobed. Other points of difference of less importance readily suggest 

 themselves, which must be our apology for distinguishing it from that 

 Peruvian genus. 



This singularly sociable shrub, in general appearance, somewhat 

 resembles an Ephedra — thousands of straight, apparently leafless 

 twigs, of almost uniform stems, spring up from a common base to the 

 height of four or five feet, banded together in exceedingly dense, im- 

 penetrable groups of two to four feet in diameter. The trim green 

 twigs are at all times ornamental and attractive by their singularity ; 

 but when in full bloom, the innumerable long, outward curving 

 branches laden with long, scarlet blossoms, thick, proudly pouting lips 

 and pretty spurs, must render it an object of rare beauty. When 

 fully known, and properly appreciated, we shall expect to see it zeal- 

 ously sought after by the ornamental gardener and florist. 



Diplacus stellatus, (Kellogg). — Stem shrubby, erect, striate, stel- 

 late, hoary, dry. Leaves lanceolate, narrowed at the base and apex, 

 quite entire ; margins revolute, clammy, varnished, green above dry, 

 densely stellate and hoary beneath ; apex terminated by a large gland. 



Peduncles short, axillary, solitary (about half the length of the 

 calyx, or one-fourth that of the leaves). 



Calyx tubular, elongated, (three-fourths to one inch in length) five- 

 angled, angles slightly winged, teeth unequal, two upper longest. 



Flowers small, tube long, (one inch or more) somewhat arched. 



Stem light cinnamon or orange color. 



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Marah minima, (Kellogg). — Stem herbaceous, filiform, angular, 

 scabrous along the angles. Tendrils two-parted. 



Leaves palmate, cordate-sinuate, three to five-lobed, (seldom cor- 

 date-angled) one to two inches in diameter, on scabrous petioles, about 

 the length of the lamina; upper and lower surfaces studded (dotted?) 

 with minute circular siliceous bullae, or somewhat shagreen scabrous, 

 minutely repand toothed. 



Sterile flowers in compound racemes, two to three inches in length, 

 from the same axils as the fertile, greenish w^hite, campanulate-rotate, 

 border five-parted, calyx teeth minute or obsolete. 



Fertile flower on a long stipitate tube ; calyx segments minute, acute 

 or subulate ; stigma with globular lobes obliterated. 



