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Calyx divisions five, increasing in size as the fruit attains to niaturitj, 

 the apex of the lobes often elongating to one-half or three-fourths of 

 an inch, erect or recurved, usually from two to four small scales in a 

 lower series, quincuncially imbricated. 



Capsule a dry chartaceous nut, in a leafy cup, similar to a hazel 

 nut, obtusely triquetrous ; in appearance beaked like an acorn, with 

 three persistent, sub-capitate styles, three-celled, three-valved, opening 

 in three-divisions at the ventral suture, by abortion one-seeded, three- 

 filiform placentas rising from the axis of the calyx recurved at the 

 apex to which funicle the ovule is attached or suspended — the per- 

 fected ovule is obtusely triangular-conic, apex pitted, grooved down 

 the angle adjacent to the placenta to the truncate base, hazel brown, 

 sparsely hirsute. 



Delphinium flammeum, (Kellogg), or Fiery Larkspur. — Stem 

 simple, one foot to eighteen inches in height, hirsute, with white some- 

 what apprcssed hairs throughout, raceme few-flowered, petioles slender, 

 dilated at the base, digitately five-parted, lobes attenuate cuneate, 

 trifid, divisions long linear-subulate. Spur long and slender, undu- 

 late, subulate, apex ascending, (about one inch, or twice as long as 

 lateral sepals) bright scarlet ; two upper appendiculate, spur-included, 

 petals yellow; lamina two lobed, upper lobe narrow elongated, recurved, 

 tipped with pink, one-nerved along the lower margin, erect, lip or limb 

 of the spur ovate, sub-acute, lateral sepals obovate, obliquely expanded, 

 claws about five-nerved ; two lower petals relatively very small, obliquely 

 oval, two-cleft, glabrous unguiculate. 



Capsules three, naked ; stigma two-toothed, somewhat unequal teeth. 



Bracteoles subulate, approximate to base of the flower ; flower 

 sparsely hirsute externally, glabrous and naked within. 



Octobe7' 10, 1859. 



President in the Chair. 



Dr. Kellogg read descriptions of the following new plants discovered 

 by Dr. J. A. Veatch at Cerros Island. 



Staphylea geniculata (Kellogg). — Stem short, erect, about a foot 

 or two in height, much branched, with rather slender, crooked ramifi- 

 cations. The -whole shrub presents a singular and interesting appear- 

 ance, and not unattractive for its beauty. It was found growing in 

 sandy ravines, near the sea-shore, on the east side of the Bay of San 

 Sebastian Biscayno, nearly opposite the guano island of Elide. 



Leaves alternate, opposite the cymose-panicles, and sometimes soli- 



