SUPPLEMENT.— RESEDACE.*:. 609 



11. L. Tnontanujyi {Nun.) — Add tii ilu; charactor : Stems mucli hranrlird 

 above ; flowers and fruit densely eoryiiiljose ; silieles ovat(> (hiennial). 



0. stem creel, tnueh lirtuielied above ; flowers very nuineroiis (l)ieimia!). 

 — L. coryinbosLim, Hook, ii^- Am. ! hot. Bieclinj, sii/y/il. I. r. (Snake River, 

 Mr. Tolinie .') — This and Mr. Nuttall's jjlant are dillerent states of the sujue 

 species. 



38. HYMENOLOBUS, ;». 117. 



1. H. divarkalus. — Add syii. Hook.! ic. pi. I. 277. 



Order CAPPARIDACEiE. 



4. POLA.MSIA, p. 1-22. 



1. P. graveolens. — To the spec. char, add : Sepals longer than the claws 

 of the petals; stamens mostly raiher lons;er than the petals; seeds flaltish, 

 smooth and even. — Add svn. Delcss. ic, 3. t. 4. Cleome violacea, Gtertn. 

 ft. t. 76 (excl. syn.) ; Lam. ill. t. b07,f. 2, ex DC. in Dcless. I. c. 



1 (rt). P. trachysperma: viscidly pubescent; leaves 3-foliolate ; leaflets 

 lanceolate-oblong, tajiering at the base, sliortcr rhan the petiole; se])als lance- 

 olate, attenuaie-acuminale, shorter than the capillary claws of the emargin- 

 ate petals ; stamens usually 16 ; the filaments (deep purple) twice or thrice 

 the length of the petals ; style about the length of the glabrous ovary ; pods 

 linear-oblong, turgid, abruptly attenuate al the base, reticulated, glandular- 

 scabrous; seeds turgid, verrucose-muricate. 



Texas, Druinmond ! — An interesting species belonging to the same section 

 (Eupolanisia) with P. graveolens and P. uniglandulosa, and in many re- 

 spects intermediate between the two. The petals are larger and more 

 showy than in the former (and like that species cuneate-obcordate), but 

 smaller than in the latter and of a diflerent shape. Besides the characters 

 given above, the pods are usually larger than in P. graveolens ; the nectary 

 is cyathiform, but compressed, with a thin margin; and the filaments and 

 seeds are very different ; yet it is perhaps the P. graveolens which is said 

 to grow in Mexico. We have not seen the seeds or pods of C. uniglandulosa ; 

 but the flowers are quite diflerent from this species. 



Order RESEDACE^. 



1. ELLIMIA, p. 125. (Oligomeris, Camb. ! pi. .lacquemont. — Resedella, 

 Webb 8^' Berlhelot ! hist. nat. Canar.) 



This plant has recently been published under three different names, from as 

 many collections made in widely (lifTiTcnt parts of the world, viz: in the interior 

 of India, where it was collected by Jacqnemont ; in the Canary Islands, by Webb 

 & Bf^rthelot ; and in Cilifornia, by Nuttall. It was previously collected in Ej^ypt 

 by Delile, and is his Reseda suhulata (fide sp. in herb. Delile, &c,) Mr. Nuttall 

 assures us that it is an indigenous plant in California, but we incline to think it 

 may have been introduced from the Canary Islands. For our iiifbrfnatinn respect, 

 ing tlie synonymy, we arc originally indebted to Mr. Gay, and to Mr Webb, who 

 has given a figure in his and Borlhelot's very interesting Histoire Naturelle des 

 lies Canaries, which wc are unable to quote, as wc do not possess the work and 

 have mislaid our reference to it. The name given by Cambesscdes has the priority, 

 and must be adopted. 



