162 Plantce Lindheimeriana. 



Gregg. The expanded corolla is two thirds of an inch in 

 diameter. The larger cauline leaves are from three to four 

 inches long, on petioles of half that length. They are de- 

 scribed in the Flora of North America, from the branches 

 only. I do not know the A. Nuttallii. 1 



354. Abutilon holosericeum, Scheele in Linncea, 21, p. 

 471. A. velutinum, Gray, Gen. HI. 2, p. 67, t. 125. Rocky 

 soil, along the margin* of thickets, New Braunfels, &c. 

 August, September. Also gathered by Mr. Wright in West- 

 ern and Southern Texas. — Stem three to six feet high ; the 

 larger leaves nearly a foot in diameter, on petioles six to eight 

 inches long, very seldom at all lobed. The deep orange- 

 yellow corolla is over an inch in breadth. The details of the 

 fruit, &c. are well delineated in the plate cited above. The 

 anthers are reniform, in the ordinary manner, not three-lobed, 

 as described by Scheele. The young leaves are quite white ; 

 the older and larger ones greener. The root is said to be 

 " ligneous and perennial? " in the wild plant. In cultivation 

 it is an annual. 



f Sphjeralcea Lindheimeri (sp. nov.) : lanoso-tomen- 

 tosa ; caulibus decumbentibus basi ut videtur suffruticosis ; 

 ramis floridis assurgentibus ; foliis cordatis saepius rotundatis 

 grosse crenatis indivisis ; pedunculis petiolo longioribus ; brac- 

 teolis involucelli 3 setaceis calycis lobis ovato-lanceolatis acu- 

 m'matis dimidio brevioribus ; corolla rosea. — Victoria, on 

 the lower Guadaloupe ; margin of thickets on the prairie. 



1 Near the southwestern borders of Texas, Mr. Wright obtained specimens of the 

 subjoined species, namely : — 



Abutilon Wrightii (sp. nov.): caulibus decumbentibus ramosis viscoso-pubes- 

 centibus et pilis graeillimis patentibus villosis ; foliis ovato-cordatis obtusiusculis argute 

 dentatis supra viridulis scabrido-velutinis subtus mollissime niveo-tomentosis ; stipulis 

 subulatis caducis; pedunculis unidoris petiolum aequantibus vel superioribus folium 

 superantibus ; calyce tomentoso 5-partito, laciniis sensira acuminalissimis corollam 

 aureain subsequantibus ; capsula tomentulosa calyci sequilonga, e carpellis 7 apice 

 subulato-rostratis 3-spermis. — On the Rio Grande and the Seco, Mr. Charles Wright. 

 — Stems one or two feet in length ; the leaves from one third to an inch and a half 

 long. Calyx nearly as long as the peduncle. The golden-yellow corolla is over an 

 inch in diameter when fully expanded. Capsule half an inch long, not inflated, the 

 subulate beaks little diverging. 



