242 A New E^ilohium. [zoe 



equally 3-toothed at apex, and usually with two strap-like lobes at 

 base, the slender glandular tube nearly half as long as the limb; 

 disk flowers long-tubular 5-toothed: stamens long-exserted minute- 

 ly sagittate at base: akenes glabrous, compressed, striate, oblique 

 at apex, somewhat clavate, curved on the back and straight on the 

 inner edge, crowned by a thickened ring; pappus none. 



Highest elevations of the mountains of the Cape region of Lower 

 Cahfornia. Not very abundant, but conspicuous, making masses of 

 bloom a yard or more in diameter. 



The oblique compressed akenes, broader at the back, remind of 

 Madia. The description is rather fully given because the plant does 

 not entirely agree with that of the hitherto monotypic Rumfordia. 

 It is, however, a fault which will readily be pardoned by any one 

 who has had to delve among the brief and vague descriptions of 

 too many of the Mexican Compositee. 



The figure in the plate is drawn one-half natural size. 



A NEW EPILOBIUM. 



With Plate xxiv. 

 BY T. S. BRANDEGEE. 



Epilobium nivium. Perennial, pubescent, stems in tufts from a 

 strong woody base: leaves oblong- or elliptic-lanceolate, pubescent 

 on both sides 8-15 mm. long, narrowed to a short stout petiole, 

 somewhat fascicled in the axils, the lower opposite, the upper usual- 

 ly alternate, all abruptly tipped with a stout subulate gland 3^-1 

 mm. long: flowers racemose in the upper axils; pedicels shorter 

 than the ovary: calyx tube red or reddish, abruptly enlarged above 

 the ovary, nearly linear 5-7 mm. long, ^ the length of the petals; 

 lobes spreading, at length deflexed, about 3 mm. long above the 

 obconical throat: petals violet - purple, obcordate, 7-10 mm. long, 

 twice the length of the longer stamens which are opposite the sepals 

 and inserted a little higher in the tube; anthers apiculate: ovary 

 few - about 8 - ovuled; style equalling the corolla, the stigma with 4 

 short ultimately reflexed lobes: capsule somewhat fusiform, the 

 few seeds being developed near the center; seeds immature, appa- 

 rently smooth; coma dingy. 



Collected September 25, 1892, at an altitude of 5,500 feet, on the 



