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scar as in WisUzenia, the pericarp in time decaying away from the more indurated seed. — 

 Desert of the borders of S. E. California and S. W. Nevada, on the Amagoza lliver, Fremont, 

 " April 28. 



8. ATAMlSQUEA, Miers. (A Chilian name.) —Trav. Chil. ii. 529, & 

 Trans. Linn. Soc. xxi. 1, t. 1. — Single geographically dissevered species. 



A. emarginata, Miers, 1. c. Shrub or small tree, lepidote-canescent, with spinescent 

 spreading branches : leaves short-petioled, entire, linear or oblong-linear, retuse, inch or so 

 long : flowers solitary in the axils or terminating branchlets : peduncle about the length of 

 the calyx : fruit over quarter inch long. — Brew. & Wats. Bot. Calif, i. 50 ; Wats. Proc. 

 Am. Acad. XX. 354. ^ — Arid district, N. W. Sonora, Mexico, not far from the U. S. boun- 

 dary, Th. Coulter, Pringle, Brandegee. (Lower Calif., Mendoza, Chili.) 



9. CAPPARIS, To urn. (Ancient Greek and Latin name of the Caper- 

 plant, C. spinosa.) — Large and diversified tropical genus, simple-leaved shrubs 

 or trees, of which two W. Indian (unarmed) species have extended to Florida. — 

 Inst. 261, t. 139 ; L. Gen. no. 437. 



C. Jamaicensis, Jacq. Shrub or shrubby tree, with minutely lepidote and yellowish herb- 

 age : leaves soon smooth and shining above, coriaceous, elliptical, retuse : flowers corymbose, 

 white or whitish : sepals equal and valvals : stamens 20 to 30, inch and a half long : fruit 

 siliquif orm, coriaceous, a span to a foot long, torose, lepidote-canescent. — Enum. PI. Carib- 

 23, & Stirp. Am. 160, t. 101 ; Eichl. Fl. Bras. xiii. pt. 1, 270, t. 64, f. 2 ; Chapm. El. 32.2 

 C. emarginata, A. Rich. El. Cub. 78, t. 9. C. cynophallophora, L. Spec. ed. 1, i. 504. C. Brey- 

 nia, & C. siliquosa (excl. syn.), L. Spec. ed. 2, i. 721. Breynia arborescens, &c., P. Browne, 

 Jam. 246. — Thickets, Key West, and probably on the mainland, S. Florida. ( W. Ind. to 

 Brazil.) 



C. cynophallophora, L. Smooth and glabrous shrub, with long and spreading branches : 

 leaves coriaceous, shining above, veiny, from elongated-oblong to broadly oval, retuse, com- 

 monly a gland in the axil : peduncles few-flowered : sepals imbricated : stamens nearly 2 

 inches long : fruit a span or so in length, linear, but thickish and knobby, more fleshy, 

 usually about twice the length of the stipe. — Spec. ed. 2, i. 721 ; Jacq. 1. c. 158, t. 98 ; Griseb. 

 Fl. W. Ind. 18 ; Chapm. 1. c. ; Eichl. 1. c. 282, t. 63. Breyniafruticosa, &c., P. Browne, Jam. 

 246, t. 27. Ci/nophalJophorus, &c., Pluk. Aim. 126, t. 172, f. 4. — Low thickets, Key West 

 and Lidian River, S. Florida. 'Trop. Am.^ 



Order XII. RESEDACEtE. 



By a. Gray. 



Herbs with watery and bland juice, alternate leaves, hermaphrodite irregular 

 and mostly unsymmetrical flowers in terminal racemes or spikes, open in the bud ; 

 stamens always more numerous than the petals ; carpels 2 to 6, usually united 

 below into a one-celled ovary with parietal placentffi bearing several or numerous 

 campylotropous or amphitropous ovules, which become reniform seeds filled by 

 the incumbently coiled or arcuate embryo. Stipules none or gland-like. Calyx 

 herbaceous, more or less irregular, of 4 to 7 or rarely 8 sepals. Petals 2 to G, 

 usually laciuiate or dentate. Stamens 3 to 40, borne on the base of the calyx or 

 on a dilated nectariferous and oblique disk, declined or unilateral. At least the 

 tijJS of the carpels distinct, not produced into evident styles, introrsely stigmatose. 



1 Add Brandegee, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. ser. 2, ii. 128. 



2 Add Sargent, Silva, i. 33, t. 19. 



