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lamina propria obovata saspius majore ; anthela nuda paniculaeformi 

 pauciflora, pedieellis ebracteatis ; corolla lajte violacea. Flos raro 

 7-merus gyncccio trimero. 



Suksdorfia violacea. Wet rocks on the Columbia River, in 

 Washington Territory, near the junction of the White Salmon River, 

 W. Suksdorf, April, 1878; also on the Oregon side of the river, 

 Joseph Howell, June, 1879. An interesting new member of the 

 group to which Sullivantia and Boykinia belong, dedicated to the 

 first discoverer, whose collections and notes prove him to be an 

 intelligent botanist and an acute observer. 



CARPENTERIA, Torr., char, emend. 



Calycis tubus crateriformis ; lobis 5 (raro 6-7) valvatis persistenti- 

 bus. Petala totidem, aestivatione imbricata, rotundato-obovata, demum 

 oblonga, sero decidua. Stamina numerosissima : filamenta filiformia: 

 anthera? innatas, breves, basi apiceque emarginataB. Ovarium sub- 

 depressum, stylo brevi crasso superatum, medio calycis tubo adnatum, 

 saepius 5-loculare (loculis petalis antepositis) : stigmata 5, oblonga, 

 coadunata, singulis bilobis, lobis parallelis connatis. Capsula conica, 

 prater basim latam depressam supera, stylo brevi (demum a basi 

 sursum fisso) apiculata. Cast, fere Philadelphi. 



Caupenteria Californica, Torr. in PI. Fremont. 12, t. 7, was 

 described from fruiting specimens, with some vestiges of flower, col- 

 lected in the southern part of the Sierra Nevada, California, by Fre- 

 mont, in the year 1849, or thereabout. No other specimens had come 

 to hand until now received from Dr. Kellogg, with good flowers, 

 flower-buds, and fruit. These were collected by Dr. Eisen on King's 

 River, in Fresno Co., in 1877. From them I here complete the 

 character. The interesting points determined are: — 1. That the 

 petals are quincuncially imbricated in the bud. Dr. Torrey had no 

 flower-bud; the character " aestivatione convoluta" may have been 

 supplied by the analogy of Philadelphus. 2. The ovary, which in the 

 unopened flower is. as it were, depressed-biconical, and rather broader 

 than high, has the flattish calyx-tube adnate to its middle and to the 

 level of the attachment of the projecting placenta? to the axis. But 

 the upper part enlarges and lengthens, so that in fruit the capsule is 

 almost wholly free. 3. I do not find the stigmas " distinct," nor even 

 separable in the fruit. They are all coalescent into a compound stig- 

 ma which is 10-sulcate (of two parallel lobes to each particular stig- 

 ma), and this remains undivided, holding the tips of the component 

 styles together after they have been riven asunder below by the 



