1076 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 



2-celled, 2-seeded, imbedded in the flowering branch and tardily separating 

 from it. 



Only two species are known. 



Stems puberulent 1, B. fruticulosa. 



Stems glabrous 2. B. frutescens. ^ 



1. Burragea fruticulosa (Benth.) Donn. Smith & Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. 



Herb. 16: 298. 1913. 



Oaura fruticulosa Benth. Bot. Voy. Sulph. 15. 1844. 



Oongylocarpus fruticulosus T. S. Brandeg. Proc. Calif. Acad. II. 2: 158. 1889. 



Baja California ; tj'pe from Magdalena Bay. 



Plants 30 to 60 cm. high ; leaves linear or oblanceolate-linear, 1.5 to 3 cm. 

 long, 1 to 4 mm. wide, acute: calyx tube about 1.5 cm. long; petals 1 cm. 

 long, rose-purple. 



2. Burragea frutescens (Curran) Donn. Smith & Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. 



Herb. 16: 298. 1913. 



Oongylocarpus frutescens Curran, Proc. Calif. Acad. II. 1: 231. 1888. 



Baja California ; type from Magdalena Bay. 



Shrub, 30 to 60 cm. high, glabrous throughout, the branches usually purple; 

 leaves narrowly oblanceolate, 2 to 3 cm. long, 7 mm. wide or less ; calyx 

 tube 2 to 2.5 cm. long ; petals 12 mm. long. 



5. ZAUSCHNERIA Presl, Rel. Haenk. 2: 28. 1831. 

 1. Zauschneria calif omica Presl, Rel. Haenk. 2: 28. pi. 52. 1831. 



Zauschneria mexicaim Presl, Rel. Haenk. 2: 29. 1831. 



Baja California and Sonora. California to New Mexico ; type from Monterey, 

 California. 



Plants herbaceous or shrubby, 1.5 meters high or less ; leaves sessile, the 

 lower opposite, the upper alternate, lanceolate to ovate, 1.5 to 4 cm. long, acute, 

 entire or denticulate, densely pilose or glabrate; flowers bright red, 2 to 3 cm. 

 long, in leafy spikes; calj^ tube funnelform, the limb 4-lobate; petals 4; sta- 

 mens 8, exserted ; fruit a linear 4-celled capsule ; seeds each with a tuft of hairs 

 at apex. 



A showy plant, sometimes known as " California fuchsia." The species is a 

 variable one, of which several segregates have been described. 



6. HAXTTA DC. Prodr. 3: 36. 1828. 



Reference: J. D. Smith and J. N. Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 16: 288-296. 

 1913. 



Shrubs or trees ; leaves large, entire ; flowers large, axillary, solitary ; calyx 

 tube elongate, the lobes narrow ; petals 4, sessile ; stamens 8 ; fruit a woody cap- 

 sule. 



Flowers pedicellate. 



Calyx lobes short-appendaged at apex 1. H. rusbyi. 



Calyx lobes not appendaged 2. H. barcenae. 



Flowers sessile. 



Calyx lobes not appendaged 3. H. elegans. 



Calyx lobes appendaged 4. H. microcerata. 



1. Hauya rusbyi Donn. Smith & Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 16: 291. f. ^8. 

 1913. 

 Guerrero; type from Monte Lim6n, altitude 1,350 meters. 



