﻿TAB. XXXVIIL 



Platystigma ltneare. 



Platystigma Uneare. Beyith. in HorL Trans. v.l.N. 5./?. 407. 

 Hab. Monterey, California. Mr. Douglas. 



This is another curious new Papaveraceous genus, discovered 

 by Mr. Douglas. It is a small annual plant, with radical, 

 linear, glabrous, entire leaves. Scapes several from the same 

 root, erect, a span high, clothed with spreading hairs, single- 

 flowered. Sepals 2 — 3, concave, hairy. Petals pale yellow, 

 4—6. Filaments filiform. Germen oval, contracted at the base. 

 Stigmas 3, sessile, oval, spreading. Capsule one-celled, three- 

 valved, having three filiform receptacles at the sutures. Seeds 

 smooth, shining, roundish kidney-shaped. 



Fig. 1. Unexpanded flower, with the calyx. / 2. Stamen, 

 /• 3. Pistil. / 4. Capsule. / 5. Section of do. / 6. Seed : 

 magnijied. 



