Frankenia. FRANKENIACE^. 207 



deciduous : flowers in terminal raceme, large, mainly yellow. — MoQ. & Sesse in 

 DC. Prodr. ii. 638 ; Planchon in Hook. Loud. Jour. Bot. vi. 140 ; Gray, PI. 

 Wright, i. 29, ii. 26 ; Benth. & Hook. Gen. i. 124. 



A. palmatifida, Mor. & Sesse. A foot or two high : leaves almost 7-9-parted into spatu- 

 late lobes : petals inch and a half or less long, orange with brown purple spot at base : cap- 

 sule ovate-globose : seeds reuiforra-iucurved, with the delicate outer coat close, minutely 

 hirsute: embryo simple, arcuate-incurved ; cotyledons oblong. — Moi;. & Sesse in DC. Prodr. 

 ii. 638, & CaL[ues des Uess. t. 1171 ; llem.sl. Biol. Centr.-Am. Bot. i. 5.5; A. palmatijida & 

 A. Schiedeana, Planchon, 1. c. 141, t. 1 ; Gray, PL Wright, ii. 26, t. 12, A, fruit. Euryanthe 

 Schiedeana, Cham. & Schlecht. Liuua3a, v. 225. — Foothills of the mountains of S. Arizona, 

 Wn'fjht, Rothrock, Prinrjle. (Mex., New Grenada.) 



A. W^rightii, Gray. Resembles the preceding : but leaves less deeply 5-7-cleft into obo- 

 vate lobes : capsule oblong-ovoid and 2 inches long or smaller and shorter : seeds obovate, 

 with short distinct rhaphe, not incurved ; outer coat glabrous, loose and arilliform ; cotyledons 

 nearly orbicular, Hexuous. — PI. Wright, ii. 26 ; Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. xvii. 324. A. Schei- 

 diana, Gray, PI. Wright, i. 29 (excl. syn.), t. 3, B, fruit. — Hills and arid plains, S. Texas to 

 Arizona, Wright, Thurber ? Palmer, Reverchon. (Adj. Mex., Berlandier, &c., and farther 

 south.) 



A. siALv^EFOLiA, Gray, PI. Wriglit. i. 29, from Chihuahua, if distinct from the last, needs 

 more elucidation. 



Oeder xvii. FRANKENIACE^. 



By a. Gray. 



Low perennial herbs or undershrubs, in saline soil ; with ojjposite or 4-nate 

 and subsessile entire thickish leaves (and commonly axillary fascicles), a stipular 

 membrane or line connecting their bases : regular and complete small hypogy- 

 nous flowers ; calyx and corolla 4-5-merous, the sepals united into a tube and 

 persistent in the manner of SUenece and the petals in same way long-unguiculate 

 and crowned at base of the blade ; stamens as many as petals and alternate with 

 them or more numerous ; style 3-4-cleft with narrow lobes introrsely or in ours 

 almost terminally stigmatose ; ovary one-celled with 2 to 4 one-many-ovulate 

 parietal placenta? ; capsule included in the calyx, dehiscent through the placenta? ; 

 seeds straight and anatropous, slender-stalked, with crustaceous coat ; and mostly 

 cylindrical straight embryo in the axis of mealy albumen. — Single and widely 

 dispersed genus. 



1. FRANKENIA, L. (/. Frankenius, Professor of Medicine at Upsal 

 in the 17th ceivtury.) — Gen. no. 362. 



* Nearly or quite herbaceous : style 3-cleft : ovules numerous and seeds several : leaves jdane 

 or nearly so when fresh. 



F. grandifolia, Cham. & Schlecht. Erect or ascending from a procumbent base, a foot 

 high, more or less ]nibescent, divergently branched : leaves large for the genus (half inch or 

 less long), from round-obovate to spatulate, the short petiole or connecting bases mostly 

 hirsute-ciliate : petals mostly 5, purple: stamens 4 to 7, commonly 5. — Linnaa, i. 35; Torr. 

 & Gray, Fl. i. 168; Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. 36, t. 5; Brew. & Wats. Bot. Calif, i. 60. 

 F. grandifolia & F. latifolia, Presl, Rel. Hank. ii. 3. Velezia latifolia, Esch. Me'm. Acad. 

 Petrop. X. 286. — Coast of California from Sau Francisco Bay to San Diego ; first coll. by 

 Hcenke. 



