298 PITTOKIA. 



mistaken for one of the scarlet-berried sorts. By its early 

 flowering, and other peculiarities, it is clearly of that group 

 which embraces D. racemosa, caUicarpa and melanocwya. 

 That the American S, puhcns is distinct from racemosa I 

 indicated in the Flora Franciseana. 



H\BENAKI.\ MAMTIMA. Very robust, only 6 to 16 inches 

 high, at flowering time destitute of foliage, but the upper 

 part of the stem bearing many lanceolate-subulate appressed 

 and more or less imbricated green bracts | inch long or more: 

 spike 1| to 3 inches long, 1 inch thick, the floAvers closely 

 crowded, white, heavily honey-scented: sepals oblong, obtuse, 

 li lines loug, white, with a narrow and delicate deep-green 

 midvein; petals not quite equalling the sepals, oblong-lanceo- 

 late, the upper 2 plane, deep-green at base and w^ell up the 

 middle, otherwise white, the lip pure white even to the 

 prominently elevated and broad midvein: spur slender, longer 

 than the ovary. 



On dry hills near tlie sea at Point Lobos, near San Fran- 

 cisco, flowering from August to October ; leaves probably 

 appearing in early spring and soon dying. Species apparently 

 referred to II, leucostachys in the State Survey Botany, but 

 most distinct. 



The Genus Kuxzia. 



A well known Rosaceous type of Eocky Mountain and 

 Californian shrubs, at first referred to the South American 

 genus Tigarea, was taken up by the elder De CandoUe in 

 1818, as a new genus, uuder the name of Purshia. Sprengel, 

 who, about a year earlier, had himself published a geruis 

 Purshia, soon after proposed Kuvzia for the name of the 

 Candollean Purshia; and this mil apparently be the proper 

 name for western genus now called Purshia, which latter 



