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imbricata, costa extus proraiiiente carinata, evenia, scarioso-accrescentia, 

 persistentia. Stamina sterilia 10, minuta, sed antherifera, sinubus disci 

 paterrcformis 10-creuulati inserta. Ovarium ovatum, subobliquum : 

 styli 3, subulati : stigmata capitata. Ovuliim a fuuiculo eloiigato 

 supra-basilari adscendente pendulum. Fruftus immaturus utriculatus 

 (corollam mai'cescentem baud superans), compressus, ai^ice hinc excise 

 obliquiis, pericarpio prorsus membranaceo baud alato. — Frutex pin- 

 natifolius ; floribus parvis paniculatis rubellis vol (ut dicitur) l£ete 

 rubi'is. 



Veatchia Cedrosensis. — Folils canescenti-puberulis ; foliolis 

 8-5-jugis cum impari ovatis ovalibusque parvis (lin. 1-3 longis) inte- 

 gerrimis vel obsolete paucidentatis, terminal! quandoque trilobo ; 

 pedicellis et ovario villosulis ; petalis calyce plus duplo longioribus 

 deraura ^-pollicaribus. — RIius Veatclnana, Kellogg, in Proc. Cal. 

 Acad. ii. 24. — Cedros Island, Lower California, Dr. J. A. Veatch. 



In his recent monograph, Prof. Engler suggests that this plant, 

 judging from the figure, may be a Bursera. But no figure is given or 

 referred to in our copy of the Proceedings of the California Academy, 

 in which Dr. Kellogg, although describing it as a Ithis, thought it was 

 closely allied to Sapindarece.* An original specimen, kindly com- 

 municated by the California Academy, enables me to bring to view its 

 real characters, and to found on it a new genus ; the fruit of which 

 (though quite immature) cannot be either drupaceous or samaroid, but 

 is obviously utricular. 



TVe may dedicate this genus to the memory of its discoverer, the 

 first and [except Lieut. L. Belding] perhaps still the only botanical 

 explorer of Cedros Island. The genus Veitchia among the Palms 

 need not stand in the way of this merited honor, for the Latinized 

 names differ in pronunciation as well as in orthography. 



LYONOTHAMNUS, Nov. Gen. Rosaceannn^ 



Flores hermaphroditi. Calyx 1-3-bracteolatus : tubus hemisphrri- 

 cus: lobi 5, aestivatione imbricati. Discus tubum calycis vestiens, 

 lanatus, margine vix incrassato 10-crenidato. Petala 5, orbiculata, 



* Since this account was printed in tlie California Bulletin, I have received 

 a copy of the plate referred to, a colored lithograph from Dr. Kollofrg's drawings, 

 representing a flowering branch of the natural size, and a probably in part iitcal 

 figure of what seems to be a low tree or tree-like shrub, with a thick and short 

 trunk and widely spreading brandies of extraordinary thickness, the branchlets 

 covered with pale red or pink flowers. 



