Nash : Revision of tiik Fa.mii.v Fouquiekiaceai-: 455 



plant referred to under that name in the preface to Gray's Plantae 

 Novae Thurberianae (Mem. Am. Acad. Arts & Sci. II. 5: 303). 

 His description of this tree agrees with a photo<^raph of one made 

 by Dr. MacDougal. The trunk arises from the ground for two 

 or three feet, and then divides into crooked branches, the ultiniate 

 divisions of which are pendulous. 



4. Fouquieria peninsularis sp. nov. 



Bronnia spviosa Benth. Voy. Sulph. 16. 1844. Not II.H.K. 



1823. 



A shrub 2-3 m. tall, with a conic panicle and red flowers. 

 Leaves on the new growth 5-6 cm. long, petioled : petiole about 

 3 cm. long, about as long as the blade: panicle conic, 1.5 dm. 

 long or less, its branches ascending, stout, the lower ones some- 

 times 4-6 cm. long and usually divided, bearing 2-4 flowers on 

 the ultimate divisions in a rather crowded manner, on short stout 

 pedicels usually less than 5 mm. long : sepals orbicular or nearly 

 so, 5-6 mm. long, apiculate, reddish : corolla red, the tube slightly 

 if at all curved, about 1.5 cm. long and 5 mm. in diameter, the 

 lobes erect or nearly so, orbicular, acute, 5—6 mm. long : stamens 

 e.xserted, unequal in length, the filaments broadened and com- 

 pressed at the base, the inner surface of the compressed portion 

 glabrous, the outer surface pubescent with long ascending hairs, 

 the remainder of the filament glabrous, the anthers 3-4 mm. long : 

 styles united except at the apex : capsule fully 2 cm. long. 



Lower California and western Sonora. 



Specimens examined. — Lower California : La Paz, Maj. W. 



Rich, Dec. 11, 1847 (type); Turtle Bay, Anthony 7./^, July-Oct., 



1896; San Bartolome Bay, Chas. F. Pond, March, 1889; Cal- 



malli, Purpus 141a, Jan. -March, 1898 ; Cape San Lucas, Xantus 



j8. Sonora: Gxydiymdi?,, Palmer 266, 1890. 



Related to F. splendens, but distinguished by the absence of the 

 appendage at the base of the filaments, the more open panicle and 

 the larger capsule. 



I have ventured to identify the Bronnia spinosa of the Voyage 

 of the Sulphur with this plant, as I have seen 'material from Cape 

 San Lucas, the place from which that plant was secured. The 

 type of this species was secured at La Paz, only about ninety miles 

 north of Cape San Lucas. Bentham describes the filaments as 

 glabrous, a condition unknown in the genus so far as I have ex- 



