204 PHILADELPHE^. 



sliowy. Petals obovate or roundish, convolute in bud. Stamens 20 — 40 • 

 filaments subulate or filiform. Styles 3—5, united at base, or almost to 

 the top : stigmas oblong, introrse, sometimes connate. Capsule 3 — 5- 

 celled, loculicidally 3 — 5-valved from the apex ; the valves in age 2-parted. 

 Seeds very many, pendulous, oblong, the thin loose testa reticulate, 

 usually prolonged at both ends. 



1. P. Lemsii, Pursh, var. Californicus, Gray, Bot. Calif, i. 202 : P. 

 Californicus, Benth. PI. Hartw. 309 (1849). Shrub 3—6 ft. high, nearly 

 or quite glabrous : leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 1 — 2 in. long, nearly 

 or quite entire : fl. in a pedunculate naked cluster : calyx-lobes about 

 twice the length of the tube : styles distinct at apex only ; stigmas 

 narrow. — On banks of streams among the foothills of the Sierra from 

 Mariposa Co. northward. May, June. 



2. P. GoiMloiiianus, Lindl. Bot. Eeg. xxiv. Misc. 21 (1838), & xxv. t. 32 

 (1839). Shrub 8 — 10 ft. high, with spreading or recurved branches, 

 sparsely pubescent or almost glabrous : leaves ovate or oblong-ovate, 

 2—4 in. long, coarsely and remotely serrate-toothed : fl. in loose axillary 

 clusters somewhat leafy at base ; petals ?^ — 1 in. long ; styles distinct to 

 the middle ; stigmas more or less dilated ; calyx-lobes twice as long as 

 the tube. — In the Coast Range, from Mendocino Co. northward. 



3. P. serpyllifolius, Gray, PI. Wright, i. 77 (1852). Shrub stout, 

 rigid, branching, 3—5 ft. high, older branches whitish, striate : leaves 

 ovate-oblong, J>^ — 1 in. long, entire, 3-nerved, pale on both faces with a 

 minute appressed pubescence : fl. subsessile, solitary or in threes at the 

 ends of the short, rigid branchlets, cream-color or white : calyx silky- 

 pubescent, the lobes ovate ; style very short ; stigma thick, 4-lobed : 

 capsule 4-celled. — White Mountains, Mono Co., Shockley. 



2. CARPENTERIA, Torrey. An evergreen shrub, with elongated 

 subcoriaceoiis denticulate leaves, and terminal peduncled cymes of few 

 large mostly 6-merous flowers. Calyx 5 — 6-parted, only the very short 

 tube adnate to the ovary. Petals rounded, concave, convolute-imbricate. 

 Stamens about 200 ; filaments filiform, somewhat distinctly gathered 

 into 5 or 6 fascicles. Styles united throughout ; the 5—7 stigmas dis- 

 tinct. Capsule 5 — 7-celled, dehiscent septicidally. Seeds nearly as 

 in Philadelphus. 



1. C. Califoriiica, Torr. PI Frem. 12. t. 7 (1850) ; Greene, Pitt. i. 66. 

 Shrub 4 — 6 ft. high, the many stems forming a dense clump ; bark pale, 

 becoming shreddy, nearly glabrous on young shoots : thickish persistent 

 leaves broadly lanceolate, remotely denticulate, in age more or less revo- 

 lute, 2 — 4 in. long, short-petioled, ■ glabrate above, pale and tomentulose 

 beneath : peduncle leafless : corolla nearly rotate, 2—3 in. broad, pure 

 white : stamens with small bright yellow anthers : seeds oblong, with 



