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HYDRANGEACEAE 



hoary-strigose ; petals rounded at apex, about 10 mm. long; styles united up to the base of 

 the stigmas. . 



Rock crevices or dry ridges, Arid Transition Zone; San Jacinto and White Mountains, southeastern Cali- 

 fornia, and San Pedro Martir Mountains, Lower California, east to western Texas. Type locality: western 

 Texas. May-June. 



2. CARPENTARIA Torr. PL Frem. 12. 1853. 



Shrub, with erect branches and persistent coriaceous leaves. Flowers very showy, in 

 few-flowered cymes. Hypanthium broad and shallow, not enlarged in age, adnate to the 

 base of the capsule. Sepals 5-7, valvate, persistent. Petals 5-7, white, broad, clawless, 

 convolute. Stamens very numerous; filaments filiform. Ovary ovoid, incompletely 

 5-8-celled; styles completely united, persistent; stigma 5-8-lobed, terminal. Capsule 

 abruptly beaked by the persistent style, firm-coriaceous, loculicidal ; seeds numerous. [Name 

 in honor of Professor Carpenter of Louisiana.] 



A monotypic genus of California. 



1. Carpenter ia californica Torr. Carpenteria. Fig. 2307. 



Carpenteria californica Torr. PI. Frem. 12. 1853. 



Shrubs, 1-2 m. high, the main branches mostly erect, bark light brown and shreddy, young 

 twigs 4-angled, opposite, glabrous or very sparsely pubescent. Leaves leathery, lanceolate, 4-9 cm. 

 long, narrowed to the obtuse apex, and to a short petiole at base, entire, the margin narrowly 

 revolute, dark green and glabrous above, canescent beneath with a stngose and finely tomentulose 

 pubescence; flowers in few-flowered cymes terminating the branches; sepals lanceolate, 10-12 

 mm long; petals 5-8, broadly obovate, rounded at apex, rotately spreading; capsule broadly 

 conical or depressed-globose and abruptly beaked, the carpels dehiscing through the beak. 



Canyons Upper Sonoran Zone; foothills of the Sierra Nevada between San Joaquin and Kings Rivers. Type 

 locality: collected by Fremont on his trip up the San. Joaquin River. This very local and rare species is becoming 

 a popular ornamental shrub in California gardens. April-June. 



2303. Philadelphus Gordonianus 



2304. Philadelphus Lewisii 



2305. Philadelphus californicus 



2306. Philadelphus serpyllifolius 



2307. Carpenteria californica 



2308. Jamesia americana 



