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Stamens 8. 



Seeds 1 in each cell of the fruit; ovary imbedded in the flowering branch. 



4. BURRAGEA. 

 Seeds few or numerous in each cell ; ovary free from the flowering branch. 

 Fruit capsular ; seeds winged or hairy. 



Seeds each with a tuft of hairs at apex 5. ZAUSCHNERIA. 



Seeds winged, not hairy. 



Seeds in 2 rows in each cell ; flowers large 6. HAUYA. 



Seeds in a single row ; flowers small 7. XYLONAGBA. 



Fruit baccate; seeds neither winged nor hairy 8. FUCHSIA. 



1. DIPLANDRA Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beechey Voy. 291. 1839. 

 A single species is known. 



1. Diplandra lopezioides Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beechey Voy. 291. pi. 60. 1839. 



Tepic. 



Shrub, about 2 meters high, the stems covered with brown flaky bark ; 

 leaves opposite, short-petiolate, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, 5 to 9 cm. long, 

 serrate, acute, scabrous-hispidulous ; flowers red, in terminal racemes, long- 

 pedicellate, about 1 cm. long; calyx tube very short, the 4 lobes oblong-linear; 

 petals short, obovate ; stamens 2 ; fruit a 4-celled capsule, about 8 mm. long. 



2. SEMEIANDRA Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beechey Voy. 291. 1839. 

 Only the following species is known. 



1. Semeiandra grandiflora Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beechey Voy. 291. pi. 59. 1839. 



Durango, Sinaloa, Tepic, and Jalisco ; type from Tepic. 



Slender shrub, about 2 meters high, the branches finely puberulent ; leaves 

 opposite, petiolate, ovate or lanceolate, 3 to 10 cm. long, acute or obtuse, ser- 

 rulate, puberulent ; flowers bright red, 3 to 4.5 em. long, axillary, forming leafy 

 racemes, long-pedicellate ; calyx tube ventricose, the 4 lobes linear, 3 of them 

 reflexed, the other erect ; petals linear-subulate, half as long as the sepals or 

 shorter ; stamens 2 ; fruit a globose capsule, about 6 mm. long. 



3. JEHLIA Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 12: 297. 1909. 

 A single species is known. 



1. Jehlia grandiflora (Zucc.) Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 12: 297. 1909. 



Lopezia grandiflora Zucc. Flora 15: Beibl. 101. 1832. 



Lopesia macrophylla Benth. PI. Hartw. 83. 1841. 



Oaxaca and Chiapas ; type from " Santiago." Guatemala. 



Plants fruticose ; leaves opposite, petiolate, oblong-ovate or lance-oblong, 

 6 to 13 cm. long, acuminate, attenuate or acute at base, serrulate, puberulent 

 or glabrate ; flowers bright red, about 2 cm. long, long-pedicellate, axillary, 

 forming dense leafy racemes ; calj'x tube very short, the 4 lobes lanceolate ; 

 petals 4, unequal ; stamens 2, one of them sterile ; fruit a subglobose capsule, 

 4-celled, about 8 mm. long. 



4. BURRAGEA Donn. Smith & Rose, Contr. U. S. Herb. 16: 297. 1913. 



Low shrubs ; leaves alternate, entire, petiolate ; flowers axillary, sessile ; 

 calyx tube very slender, elongate, the 4 sepals reflexed ; petals 4 ; stamens 

 8, unequal ; stigma capitate ; ovary imbedded in the stem, 2-celled ; capsule 



