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vezia of Dombey in Jussieu united thereto by 

 W. P. differs by calix 5fid, tube ventricose be- 

 low and capsule globose. 



404. IliissELiA JUNCEA. Zuc. in bot. reg. 

 1773. Branches 4gone erect virgate, leaves 

 minute petiolate ovate subentire, peduncles lili- 

 forni subbitlore — Texas and Mexico, llowers 

 scarlet. 



405. RussELiA FLAMMEA Raf. Gorardia do 

 Bartr. trav p. 412. stem ramose pyramidal, 

 leaves lanceolate t flowers in a pyramidal foli- 

 ose panicle — Alabama, indicated GO years ago 

 by Bartram, and still not in any work nor gar- 

 den as yet : although a splendid plant 4 feet 

 high, crowded with large scarlet flowers, tubu- 

 lar and bilabiate ; therefore referable to this 

 Genus, unless it is a new one to be called Fla- 



MARIA COCCINEA Raf. 



406. MACRANTHERA Torrey 1835. Con- 

 radia Nuttal 1834 but not of Martins. Calix 

 deeply 5fid, corolla tubular border 5fid sube- 

 qual. Stamens 4 subequal exserted, filaments 

 hairy, anthers linear sagittate. Style long fili- 

 form, stigma simple or bifid. Capsule ovate 

 acum. polysperm, as in Aureolaria. Peren- 

 nials, leaves opposite cJimded, flowers axilla- 

 ry racemose yellow on long reflexed incurved 

 peduncles. — I adopt the name of Torrey in- 

 stead of Conradia already twice employed, by 

 myself in 1825 for my Leptilix Neog. 25 for the 

 American Tofieldas, see Abama 1st part, and 

 also by Martius, Macranthera is not however 

 a very good name as the anthers are not very 

 long, the name of ToxoPBS (Raf.) meaning in- 

 curved peduncles would have been better, but 

 the 2 sp. known (and there may be more) ap- 



