cHEiRANTiioDENDKE^. SILVA OF NORTH AMEPiICA. 47 



TEEMONTIA. 



Flowers solitary, terminal or opposite the leaves ; calyx hypogynous, subcampan- 

 ulate, deeply 5-lobed, the lobes imbricated in aestivation, persistent ; petals ; stamens 

 5, united into a column. Capsule 4 to 5-valved, loculicidally dehiscent. 



Fremontia, Torrey, Smithsonian Contrib. vi. 5. — Bentham Cheiranthodendron, Baillon, Hist. PI. iv. 127, in part. 

 & Hooter, Gen. i. 212, 982. — Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 

 n. ser. sxil. 304. 



A tree or shrub, with stellate pubescence and mucilaginous inner bark. Leaves alternate, pal- 

 mately lobed, furnished with minute deciduous stipules, tliich, prominently veined, usually rufous on the 

 lower surface. Flowers petiolate, subtended by three or rarely five minute caducous bracts. Calyx cleft 

 nearly to the base, the yellow lobes spreading, obovate, often mucronate, an inch long, the three outer 

 a httle smaller, pubescent on the outer surface, with a hairy cavity at the base of the inner suiface. 

 Staminal column divided to the middle into five slender divisions alternate with the sepals, each bear- 

 ing on its summit an adnate oblong-linear curved extrorse two-celled anther, longitudinally dehiscent. 

 Ovary five-celled, the cells opposite the sepals ; style filiform, elongated, terminated by an acute undi- 

 vided stigmatic point ; ovules mimerous in each cell, horizontal, anatropous. Capsule ovate, acuminate, 

 an inch long, densely coated with long stinging hahs, the inner surface of the iom or five cells villose 

 pubescent. Seeds oval ; testa crustaceous, minutely pubescent, furnished with a small fleshy marginal 

 deciduous arilloid appendage on the chalaza. Embryo straight, in thick fleshy albumen ; cotyledons 

 oblong, foliaceous, three or four times longer than the short radicle. 



Fremontia ^ is represented by a single CaiiFornia species. 



FREMONTIA CALIFORNICA. 



Slippery Elm. 



Fremontia Californica, Toirey, SmUlisonian Contrib. vi. ters, Gard. Ghron. 1869, 610. - Seemann, Jour. Bot. vii. 



5, t. 2, f. 2; Proc. Am. Assoc, iv. 191; Pacijlc B. B. 297.- Garden, iii. 54, t.-Planchon, Fl. des Sevres, 



Bep.i^'.lo,n.~^^^yhe^'vy,PacificB.B.Bep.Vl.Q?..- xxli. 175, t.- Brewer & Watson, Bot. Cal. i. 88; n. 



Walpei-s, Ann. iv. 319. -Gray, Jour. Bast. Soc. Nat. 43T. - Eothrock, WMder's Bep. ^i. ^\,^ol. 

 Hist. vii. 146. - Bot. Mag. t. 5591. - Lemaire, III. Hort. CheirautHodendron Californicum, BaxUon, Hist. PI iv. 



xiii. t. 496. — _Be^^. Hort. xvii. 226, t. 13. — Carri^re, 70. 

 Bev. Hort. 1867, 91, t. — Koch, Dendr. i. 483. — Mas- 



A smaU tree, twenty to thirty feet high, with a short stout trunk twelve or fourteen inches in 

 diameter, and stout rigid branches spreading almost at right angles with the stem ; or more often a low 

 intricately branched shrub. The bark of the trunk is rarely more than a quarter of an mch thick ; it is 



^ The nearest ally to Fremontia is the Mexican Hand-tree. Clei. Cheirauthodeodron, while Gray retains ^^^^"^^^ 



rantUaenaron .latanoides, Bail., which differs from Fremontia in its family, CMrantUdenare., founded pnmardy on the ^^rong^ qn o- 



large .ubfloral bract., its more deeply pitted pnrple calyx, and its cncial calyx, for these two genera whjoh he -move f om SUrcuU- 



oblique staminal tube with connectives produced beyond the an- acm and Malvace^. {Proc. Am. Acad. n. scr. xxn. 6^6.) 

 thers- Baillon, in spite of these differences, unites Fremontia with 



