458 Nash : Revision of the Family Fouquieriaceae 



the apex of the trunk, the flowers rather crowded and almost ses- 

 sile upon the ultimate divisions of the panicle. Corolla yellow, 

 campanulate, the lobes orbicular, concave, incurved, shorter than 

 the tube. Stamens lo, adnate at the very base to the corolla- 

 tube : filaments pubescent below. Styles short, thick, united 

 their entire length, but little longer than the ovary, forming a stout 

 3 -angled body, the angles rounded. 



Species one ; Lower California. 



I. Idria columnaris Kellogg, Hesperian, 4 : loi. />/. i860. 



Fouqiiicra cohinmaris Kellogg ; Curran, Bull. Cal. Acad. Sci. 



i: \ZZ.pl. 1885. 

 Fouqiiiera gigmitea Orcutt, West Am. Sci. 2 : 48. 1886. 



A tall tree with a tapering trunk up to 3-4 m. in height or 

 even taller, and a diameter at the base of about 3 dm. or more, 

 from which arise the short spreading spiny and leafy branches. 

 Leavesof the new growth unknown : fascicled leaves 1.5— 2 cm. long 

 and 5—8 mm. wide, oblanceolate to narrowly obovate : panicles 

 3-4 dm. long, flowers rather crowded and nearly sessile upon the 

 ultimate divisions : flowers, including the exserted stamens, 12-14 

 mm. long : sepals orbicular, about 4 mm. long : corolla yellow, 

 6-7 mm. long : stamens exserted, the filaments pubescent below, 

 the anthers about 3 mm. long : styles about 2 mm. long, thick. 



Lower California. , 



Specimens examined. — Rosalia Bay, Anthony 120, July to 

 October, 1896. 



Originally collected by Dr. Veatch near the Bay of Sebastian 

 Viscaino, on the mainland east of Cedros Island. The tree was 

 described by Dr. Kellogg as spineless, but this must have been an 

 error, as others who have visited the same region remark upon the 

 long spines which are found on the short branches arising from 

 the trunk. Moreover, a specimen in the herbarium of the New 

 York Botanical Garden, collected by Anthony at Rosalia Bay, 

 but a few miles north of the original station, shows these spine- 

 bearing branches, the spines being similar to those occurring in 

 the other members of this family. Dr. Kellogg describes the 

 trunk as undivided, while Orcutt, in the description of his 

 Fonquicra gigantea, states that the trunk branches above the 

 middle, sending up a few simple branches to nearly the height of 

 the main stem. Brandegee, in his account of a collection of plants 



