MISCELLANEOUS SPECIES. . 67 
branch with leaves and capsules on which this genus is based. 
I am not aware that any botanist or collector has again met 
with it up to the present time ; but a few seedling plants of 
it have been growing upon the grounds of the University at 
Berkeley for perhaps ten years past, the seeds having been 
derived from some person whose name and address are long 
Since lost, who sent mature capsules, in a letter, for identifica- 
tion: so that there is no new information forthcoming yet 
concerning the exact habitat of Carpenteria. Our cultivated 
specimens put forth their first flowers two or three years 
sinee. During the eurrent season they have flowered for the 
first time very freely, and I take this earliest opportunity of 
giving an account of the flowers which have so long remained 
unknown. 
But first of all, a eorrection or two must be made in regard 
to the published description of the stem and leaves. 
There is but a very small and feeble aggregate of characters 
by which to distinguish Carpenteria from Philadelphus, even 
smaller than would appear from what is stated in the original 
description drawn up by Dr. Torrey, and in the “Genera 
Plantarum.” In the last named work it is said that the 
branches are quadrangular ; I can hardly surmise upon what 
grounds, for no such character is indicated in Dr. Torrey’s 
description, or exhibited by the accompanying figure, and in 
the living plant they are as perfectly terete as in Philadelphus. 
Again, both the descriptions and the figure call for entire 
leaves, a thing which, if it were true, would strengthen the 
generic character : but in all our plants there are from twelve 
to twenty very manifest denticulations on every leaf. They 
are not the coarse or prominent teeth which one observes in 
Philadelphus, yet no one would say they are entire or even 
nearly so, yet the word of Bentham is “integerrima,” and so 
they might be described from the table in the Plante Fre- 
montian:e. 
As to the flowers, the statement that the calyx is *5-parted ” 
leaves one to the inference that the petals are five also; but 
we find the flowers pretty constantly hexamerous, the sepals 
