Farr on British Columbian Plants. 421 



slightly pointed teeth in the upper half, thickened and slightly 

 reflexed ; the midrib alone prominent on the upper surface, 

 secondary veins indistinct, the lower surface reticulate; 

 stipules minute, lanceolate, brown-black tipped. Flowers 

 densely clustered in cymes; cymes three- to six-flowered, 

 pedicels ^/^ to i line long, short, stout; bracteoles broadly 

 ovate, truncate ; flowers stellate. Sepals broadly oval, midrib 

 faint. Petals rounded, nearly as broad as long, greenish- 

 white tinged with purple. Stamens four, well developed, 

 inserted into a prominent four-lobed disc. Ovary at first 

 sunk in the hollowed out receptacle, later becoming promi- 

 nent and green ; style short, stigma capitate, papillose. 



Cedar Creek, eastern slope of Selkirks, altitude 3,150 



feet, June 15, 1904. 



Pachystima macro phylla, sp. nov. — i to 2>4 feet high, 

 branched, habit loosely spreading, internodes 5 to 10 lines 

 long, twigs striate, cinnamon brown, traversed by brown- 

 black ridges. Leaves 9 to 18 lines long, membranous-leath- 

 ery in texture, bright green in color, ovate-lanceolate, rarely 

 obovate, sessile or slightly petioled, margins five to ten- 

 toothed in the upper half, sharply revolute ; veins prominent 

 on the upper surface, rather faint beneath ; stipules minute, 

 lanceolate, brown with black tips. Flowers arising as sparse 

 axillary cymes in the axils of the leaves; cymes one- to 

 three-flowered, pedicels 3 to 6 lines long, bracteoles ovate- 

 acuminate. Sepals ovate with prominent midrib. Petals 

 (as studied in material collected by Sandberg in Idaho) 

 ovate to ovate-lanceolate, two to three times longer than 

 broad. Stamens four. Pistil as in Myrsinites. Fruit 

 3 lines long, inequilateral through abortion of one carpel, 

 dehiscence loculicidal along the lateral superior face. Cap- 

 sule one-seeded, seed oval, slightly ridged, mahogany brown 

 in color, surrounded by a membranous split up aril and sus- 

 pended for a time by a long funiculus. 



Bear Creek, eastern slope of Selkirks, altitude 3,670 

 feet, August 20, 1904. 



