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ale. Figs. 11, 12. Acheniura from Asiatic specimen of E. RedowsUi. Figs. 
13, 14. Aclienium of E. patuluni ; all enlarged eight diameters. (861.) 
Var. STRICTUM. {E. strictum, Nees., App. NeuiviecVs Trav. 17 ; not of 
Ledebour.) The prickles united over the back into a strongly inflexed 
border. — An extreme state, bnt various intermediate forms are frequent. 
New M*exico to Colorado and westward. Valleys and foot-hills of Western 
Nevada, with tlie last. (862.) 
CoLDENiA^ HisPiDissiMA, Gray. Proc. Amer, Acad. 5. 340. (Eddya, 
Torn Pac. R. R. Rep. 2. 170, t. 8.) Prostrate, much-branched, very hispid ; 
brandies 3-10' long, from a woody base ; leaves 3-5" long, linear, entire, 
revolute, acute, somewhat fliscicled at the ends of the short branchlets, hispid 
with rigid white hairs ; flowers solitary ; calyx deeply 5-parted, lobes linear, 
tube indurated in fruit ; corolla white, 2-3" long, salver-form, without scales ; 
1 COLDENIA, L. (Including Stegnocarpus, Toit., FAldijn, Toit., riqiiiJia, Ti'i s., and Culapagoa, Hook.) 
Calyx S-parted or 5-cleft. Corolla funnelform, lobes snbrounded, flat and s])i'oa(lin,';\ throat naked. Sta- 
mens 5. Style bifid or 2-parted, short or elongated. Nntlets 4, coherent into n ol„l,ose or 4-lobed frnit, 
at length separable, or more or less distinct. Albumen none or thin ; embryo strai,-;ht, or the rounded or 
ovate entire or 2-parted cotyledons incnmbent npon the ascending radicle.— Slu'uhs or herbs, witii alt. i - 
nate leaves and small sessile usually axillary flowers. 
Dr. Gray (in I'roc. Jincr. Acad. 5. 340) has proposed the following arrangement of the species that 
have been referred to this genus : — 
I. Fruit of 4 triangular nutlets, convex upon the back and closely united by their flat inner sur- 
f<lCGS tllick. tlDCl cm stclCGOlTS* 
' $ 1. EUCOLDEXIA, DC. styles 2, short ; fruit 4-lobed-globose ; nutlets subconnate in pairs, at 
length separable. C. procumbens, L. Southern Asia. 
§ 2. Stegxocaepus, DC. Style 2-cleft ; fruit globose, separating into 4 nutlets. C. can i .sc kn s, DC. 
{Stegmmrims, Torr. Pac. E. B. Rep. 2. 169, t. 7.) Nortliern :\lexico and New Mexico. 
II. Fruit deeply 4-lobed, the 4 nutlets (or fewer by abortion) ovate, small, attached only to the 
style by the inner angle, the pericarp thin. 
§ 3. Eddva. forr. Style bifid toward the top ; nutlets rough-papillose, with a thm crustaceous 
pericarp. C. iiisimdissima, Gray. 
^ 4. TiQUlLiA, Pers. Style 2-cleft or divided ; nutlets smooth, shining, with a very thm crusta- 
ceons pericarp; embryo Avith flat entire cotyledons, as in the preceding sections. Sp.cirs tluve, .■,!] 
South American. . , ^ , 
§ 5 TiQtJiiJOPSis, Gray. Corolla-tube ^vith 5 scales at the base; pericarp .almost incu.l.rnnous ; 
cotyledons 2-parted, accumbent to each side of the radich- ; otherwise as in the Inst. C Xr ri ai.m., I fook 
Another si.eeies has recently been added to tl,c last section on account <.i ils i,k. n, ss 1'=' 
C. XnllaUU, but without a knowledge of its fruit. The fuller description hru- .^i v, „ si,nw. ,!,:,. ,t dil .Ts 
considerably from them all. The true relations of these rather In-t. rog.., ns s,.<., u s ax- m.t . ... (an. ,nt 
it would seem that all the latter division should rather be r.-f.-.....! to th- t. .hr /!ornu,raih:n^ to //, h- 
of?-of)C(7', as was long ngo stated by Dr. Torrey. , ,. ,,■ , m 
C PvLArrnr, Gray. Proc. Amer. Aaul ^. 2'J2. {TUimVut hnnfuha. \ -.u-. pU.ai,,. !..,. /../. - 
Bound. 136.) Shr-ibbv. nmch-branehed and sp.eadin^, 1 high, l.oary with a short d,-n.. >ot. a j,,. 
pubescence without hirsute hairs; leaves 2-:! " h>ng. ovatr. ah.nU c.nal.ng the p..1,ole, ... k y H-ate- 
nerved ; calvx short, 5-clert, the ovate or lanceolate loh.s ahuut -Mnahng the tu]>e : corolla w ..t.. .. or 
more in length, the ttihe twice exceeding the calyx, without scal..s at th. l>as,. : stamens ,ncl,.,l..d ( 1>.- 
n,.e.p,al dilated iilan..nts ins-rted at the base of the tub., and adnat. nearly th-,r whol. l-ngtl. : M vie a. 
lou^ as the corolla or exserted. ve.y deeply cleft ; iVnit i,.at,niug b„t a s.ngle ..hov,.t,.-^l.,h,»,. M,..K>^h 
nuth-t, attached at the has. and without vet.tral s.ilcus : allunueu evnhM.t : cotyledon, .uond-d. that, 
entire, incumbent upon the slmrtcr radicle- Southern California, (Schott ;) Ar,.ona, (1 aln.-r. , 
