456 Nash : Revision of the Family Fouquieriaceae 



amined it. Otherwise his description agrees well with this plant, 

 and as the filaments are pubescent only toward the base the pubes- 

 cence might readily be overlooked. 



5. Fououieria splendens Engelm. in Wisl. Mem. Tour Mex. 98. 



1848. 



Fouqideria spinosa Torr. in Emory, Mil. Reconn. \4.y,pl.8. 

 1848. Not H.B.K. 1820. 



A branching shrub, the long slender branches arising from near 

 the base, sometimes to a height of 4-6 m., with a narrow panicu- 

 late inflorescence and red flowers. Leaves of the new growth 3-5 

 cm. long, petioled ; petiole about one half as long as the blade ; 

 blade 2-3 cm. long, 5-7 mm. wide, narrowly elliptic to oblanceo- 

 late, acute at the apex, narrowed at the base : fascicled leaves 

 I- 1. 5 cm. long, 5-8 mm. wide, narrowly obovate to obcordate : 

 panicles narrow, solitary or several at the apex of the stem, 5-20 

 cm. long, the branches usually short and with the few flowers 

 crowded : sepals broadly oval to nearly orbicular, 5-8 mm. long, 

 obtuse or rounded at the apex : corolla red, the tube straight, i 5 

 18 mm. long, gradually a little enlarged toward the apex, 4-5 

 mm. in diameter at the middle, the lobes spreading and recurved 

 or enrolled, broadly oval to orbicular, obtuse at the apex or some- 

 times apiculate, 4-5 mm. long : stamens exserted, unequal in 

 length, the filaments broadened and dorsally compressed at the 

 base, the compressed portion running out laterally into a scale-like 

 appendage which is pubescent on the upper surface and 0.5-1 mm. 

 long, the inner surface of this broadened portion glabrous, the 

 outer surface pubescent with long stout hairs, the remainder of the 

 filament glabrous ; anthers about 4 mm. long, oblong, abruptly 

 acute, cordate at the base : styles more or less united, only toward 

 the base, or nearly to the apex : capsule 1-1.8 cm. long. 



Western Texas and northern Mexico to southern California 

 and northern Lower California. 



Specimens examined. — Texas : El Paso, G. R. Vasej, May, 

 1 88 1, and L. H. Deivey, June 15, 1891 ; Wright 228, October, 

 1849. Mexico : Chihuahua and Sonora, Tliurbcr 4.01, May, 185 i ; 

 Coahuila, Prt/7wr 80, 1880; San Pablo, Gregg, A^^rW 30, 1847. 

 New Mexico : Grant Co., Mcanis 46, 1892; Little Mt., near Las 

 Cruces, Wooton, May and July, 1893. Arizona : Tucson, Tourney, 

 April 20, 1894 ; Tucson Mts., Tourney 465, 1892 ; Willow Springs, 

 Jones, May 29, 1890; Gila Valley, Rothrockjig; foothills, Prin- 



