276 Mr. Bentham's Review of the Order o/" Hydrophyllefe. 



giores. Corolla plus poUice diametro. Squamae coroUinse basi villosae. 

 {v. s. sp.) 

 From Mr. Douglas's Californian collection. 



G. N. Menziesii (Hook, et Am. Bot. of Beech. Voy. 152.), "foliis omnibus 

 pinnatifidis scabris, segmentis approximatis ovatis obtusis ciliatis subtri- 

 dentato-lobatis, pedunculis oppositifoliis folio duplo longioribus, segmentis 

 calycinis lanceolatis accessoriis minutis." 



I have not seen this plant ; and it does not appear that Hooker and Arnott, 

 from whom I have borrowed the above characters, have examined the ovarium : 

 but it is stated on the authority of Mr. Collie, who gathered the plant in Cali- 

 fornia, that the capsule is polyspermous. 



IV. EuTOCA. R. Br. App. to Frankl. Voy. 



Corolla decidua. Ovarium ovoideo-globosum, piloso-hispidum. Placentce li- 



neares, dorso parietibus ovarii adnatae, 4 — multi-ovulatse. Capsula disse- 



pimentis incompletis, semi-bilocularis. 

 Herbse annuse ? ssepius erectse, habitu Phaceliic, rarius diffusse vel divaricatae. 



Flores racemosi densi sessiles, vel laxi pedunculati, cymis unilateralibus 



simplicibus vel dichotomis. 



1. E. DouGLASii, diffusa, foliis omnibus pinnatifidis, lobis ovatis subinteger- 



rimis, placentis 12 — 20-ovulatis. 

 Folia fere omnia radicalia, hispido-scabra, lobis utrinque 4 — 6. Caules flori- 

 feri adscendentes, basi foliis paucis instructi, apice nudi multiflori. Pedun- 

 culi elongati. Flores ampli fere Neniophihe insignis, ad quam hsec planta 

 habitu refert. {v. s. sp.) 



From Mr. Douglas's Californian collection. 



2. E. CuMiNGii, erecta, scabro-pubescens, foliis elongatis pinnatisectis, lobis 



oblongis obtusis subincisis, placentis 6 — 8-ovulatis. — E. brachylohce affinis. 

 (v. s. sp.) 

 My specimen, gathered in the Andes of Chili by Mr. Cuming (no. 313.), is 

 very young, and so much pressed in the drying, that the ovarium was the only 



