294 CHEIRANTHODENDRE^. Fremontia. 



Stamens 5, alternate with the sepals and monadelphous ; anthers adnate-extrorse, 

 2-celled, the cells parallel and more or less elongated, opening lengthwise. 

 Ovary 5-celled (rarely and casually 4-celled), with numerous horizontal anatropous 

 ovules in the axis ; a single filiform style terminated by a minute undivided 

 stigma. Capsule hispid, loculicidally 5-valved ; seeds rather large, oval or 

 obovoid, with crustaceous naked testa, and a straight embryo nearly the length 

 of the fleshy albumen ; the cotyledons broadly oval and foliaceous, plane except 

 some incurving of the margins ; radicle short. Pollen-grains smooth, somewhat 

 trigonous, delicately reticulated. — Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. xxii. 203. — Consists 

 of the Mexican Hand-tree ( Cheiranthodendron, Larreat., Cheirostemon, Humb. & 

 Bonpl.) and the following. 



1. FREMONTIA, Torr. (The discoverer, Gen. John Charles Fremont, 



distinguished Western explorer.) — Bractlets (3, sometimes 5 ?) minute, caducous. 



Sepals plane and thin (not carinate), roundish, rotately spreading in anthesis. 



Stamens regular ; filaments at base obscurely aduate to the bottom of the calyx, 



monadelphous to or above the middle ; anthers elongated-oblong, emarginate at 



both ends, adnate to a small and narrow inconspicuous connective ; the cells 



reniform-incurved and at length contorted or flexuous, obscurely camerate and 



sausage-like. Capsule ovoid, firm-coriaceous ; seeds smooth and not appen- 



daged. — PL Prem. in Smiths. Contrib. vi. 5, t. 2, not of Emory Rep. ; Hook. f. 



Bot. Mag. t. 5591; Benth. & Hook. Gen. i. 212, 982; Masters, Gard. Chron. 



1869, 610, & Seem. Jour. Bot. vii. 298 ; Brew. & Wats. Bot. Calif, i. 88 ; Gray, 



1. c. 304.1 



P. Californica, Torr. 1. c. 6. Branching shrub or arborescent, 4 to 20 feet high, with 

 hard wood and dark-colored bark: leaves subcoriaceous, round-cordate to round-ovate, 

 moderately .3-5-lobed or -cleft, tawny-canescent or ferruginous beneath, the larger 2 inches 

 wide : flowers short-peduncled on very short lateral branches : calyx nearly glabrous, 

 accrescent, thin, wholly light yelloAv in anthesis, becoming 2 or 3 inches in diameter, mar- 

 cescent in age, within hairy at base and with a small nectariferous pit : capsule inch long, 

 hispid with short pungent hairs ; the cells villous within. — Cheiranthodendron CaUfornlcum, 

 Baill. Hist. PI. iv. 70, but genera quite distinct.^ — California, on dry hills, chiefly of the 

 lower western slopes of the Sierra Nevada, from Hunt's Val., Lake Co., Bolander, south- 

 ward ; fl. spring ; first coll. by Fre'mont. 



Oeder XXVI. MALVACEAE. 



By a. Gray; the genera Anoda, Wlssadtda, Malachra, and Cienfuegosia revised 



by B. L. Robinson. 



Herbs or soft-wooded shrubs or even trees, with bland mucilaginous juice, 

 tough fibrous inner bark, alternate and mostly palmiveined stipulate leaves and 

 usually stellate or fasciculated pubescence. Flowers usually hermaphrodite, 

 polyandrous and monadelphous, with calyx valvate and corolla convolute in the 



1 Add Garden, xxix. 8, t. 525, xxxiii. 562, 566 ; Sargent, Silv. i. 47, t. 23. 



2 Add syn. Fremontodendron Californicum, Coville, Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. iv. 74. 



