Macroslphonla. APOCYNACE.^. 83 



cymes loose, spreading:, naked and mostly surpassing the leaves : corolla flcsli-color, open- 

 campanulate (3 or 4 lines long) with revoluto lobes ; the tube exceeding the ovate acute 

 calyx-lobes. — Spec. i. 210 ; Lam. 111. t. 17G ; Eot. Mag. t. 280 ; Bigel. Med. t. 36. — Borders 

 of tliickets, Canada to Georgia, New Mexico, California, and Brit. Columbia. Var. incanum, 

 A. DC, is the downy-leaved form, not uncommon nortliward. 



Var. pumilum, a very low and peculiar round-leaved form, common from California 

 to Brit. Coliunbia. 



A. cannabinum, L. Erect or ascending, glabrous or sometimes soft-pubescent : branches 

 ascending, leafy to the top : leaves from oval to oblong and even lanceolate, from short- 

 petioled to sessile, with a rounded or obscurel}' cordate base : cymes erect, densely flowered : 

 corolla greenisli-white or sliglitly flesh-color, smaller than in the preceding, with almost 

 erect lobes, and tube not longer than the lanceolate calyx-lobes. — Spec. 1. c. ; Hook. Fl. 

 t. 139; Gray, Man. ed. 5, 31)4. A.hijpericifolium, Ait. Kew. ed. 1, i. 304; Hook. 1. c. t. 140; 

 form with mostly sessile and sometimes subcordate leaves. A. Sihin'cum, Jacq. Vind. iii. 

 t. 60. A. pubesce/is, K. Br. in Wern. Soc. i. 67 ; the downy form. — Moist grounds and banks 

 of streams, same range as the preceding, and more southern ; occurring in a much greater 

 number of forms, hardly to be distinguished as named varieties. 



6. CYCLADENIA, Benth. {Kv/log, a ring, and d8i]v, gland, from the 

 circulai- glandular disk around the pistil.) — Low perennial herks (Californian) ; 

 with a creeping rhizoma sending ujj a simple stem, hai-dly a span high, and bear- 

 ing 2 or 3 pairs of opposite petiolate leaves, of a thickish texture, and one or two 

 slender terminal or apparently axillary peduncles, with a few rose-purple flowers 

 on slender pedicels, developed in spring. — PI. Hartw. 322. 



C. humilis, Benth. Glabrous and green, or pruinose when young : leaves ovate or 

 obovate, thickisii, 1 to 3 inches long: calyx-lobes from lanceolate to nearly linear: corolla 

 three-fourths inch long. — Yuba to Shasta Co., California, in the mountains, Ilarhmj, 

 Brewer, &c. 



C. tomentosa, Gray. Densely tomentose-pubescent throughout : leaves ovate and 

 oblong, 2 or 3 inclics in length: calyx hirsute. — Bot. Calif, i. 474. —Plumas Co., Cali- 

 fornia, with the preceding, Lenimon. 



7. MACR0SIPH6NIA, Muell. (Arg.) (/V/«xpo,>, long, and aufow, tube, 

 in reference to the corolla.) — Erect sutfrutescent or more woody plants (of Mexico, 

 Texas, and Brazil) ; with rather simple stems or branches, numerous opposite or 

 sometimes verticillate leaves, and proportionally large showy flowers, either ter- 

 mitial or becoming lateral, on short peduncles or pedicels ; the corolla commonly 

 soft-puberulent or tomentose outside. Follicles erect. — IMart. Fl. Bras. vi. 137, 

 t. 42, 43 ; Benth. & Hook. Gen. ii. 727. — Flowers in ours white or externally 

 tinged with rose-color, vespertine, fragrant, in spring or summer; the leaves 

 very short-petioled. 



M. Berlandieri. A foot or two high, shrubby, whitc-tomentose : leaves from oval or 

 cordate-ovate to orbicular (an inch and more long), becoming greenish and merely pubes- 

 cent above, the diverging veins at length conspicuous : corolla merely puberulent outside, 

 its slender tube (with the cylindraceous-dilated throat) 3 to 5 inches long, many times 

 exceeding the calyx and the round-obovate (nearly inch long) lobes. — Echltes mnrrosiphon, 

 Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. 1 ")8, t. 43. — Ilocky soil, W. Texas and adjacent parts of Mexico, 

 Berlandier, Wrlijht, Lindheimer. 



M. W^rightii. Slender, branching, a foot high, soft-puberulent : leaves narrowly lan- 

 ceolate, acute, white-tomentulose beneath, glabrous or nearly so above : tube of the corolla 

 and its cylindraceous throat each half inch or more in length, tomentulose, the lobes 

 half inch long. — W. Texas, in motmtains beyond the Limpio, Wrvjht. 



M. brach^siphon. A span to a foot high, branching, minutely puberulent, green or 

 barely cinereous : leaves oblong or ovate, acute or mucronate-pointed, or some rounded at 



