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PLANT^ WRIGHTIAN^. 



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of the Sulphur, thc (light purple) corolla larger, 2 inches in diamcter, and thc invo- 

 lucel (of which traces are visible in the South Californian plant) manifcst, although 



mconspicuous, 



ence on comparison of th 



Specimens in ]Mr. Wrigl 



about the length of the tube of the calyx. 



I see no furthcr differ 



The figure cited abovc is not a good 

 of 1S5L iust roccivcd, are more b 



manifest. The name of the 



lcafy than those here characterizcd, and wcll agreeing with the original Califor 

 specimens, exccpt that the S( 

 ies is not well chosen. 

 5. H. (Bombicella) Coulteri 



LTERi (Harvey^ ined.) : 1 

 libus suffruticosis erectis 1 - 3-floris : foliis trilobis 



trigoso-hispidus ; cau- 

 re dentatis vel infimis 



indivisis 



pedunculo folium multo super 



involucello 



10-phyllo, phyllis lineari-setaceis lacinias calycis 5-partit 

 nerves subaequantibus corolla spcciosa sulphurea dimidi( 

 bosa demum glab 

 July. 



gi 



High hills of thc San Pedro Rivcr ; 



AIso Zimapan, Mcxico, Coulter (809), and Paso de Caritas, Gregg. — St 

 ti to a foot high, strigose with appressed stcllate ha 

 ch wide, variable in form and in division, mo 



Leavcs striirose, about 



tly 



lobed; tlie lob 



oblong or lanceolate, irregularly toothed 



2 or 3 inclies lontr, onc-flow 



o 



articulated 



Calyx, involucel, and tbe young capsulc strong 



ly hispid. Petals spreading, broadly obovate-cuneiform, from an incb 



inch 



Column much shorter than the 



and a half in length. 



the length of the column, 5-cleft at the summit 



hairs.* 



'Style filiform 



Seeds clothed with long woolly 



We 



KosTELETZKYA CoTJLTEKi (sp. nov,) : humilis, parce hispidula ; caulibus ramisve gracilibus ; foliis rotun- 

 dis subcordatis dentatis vetustioribus glabratis, inferioribus sublobatis, superioribus 5-fidis vcl pedatis ; pe- 



dunculis axillaribus unifloris petiolo floreque parv^o luteo ssepius brevioribus; antheris paucis ; capsula pu- 

 berula acute 5-carinata, carinis (suturalibus) ciliato-hispidis; seminibus glabris. — Sonora Alta, Northcrn 

 Mexico, Couher (No. 804). —The stems or branches are a foot long, simple, sparsely hispid, like the 

 leaves, with simple or sparingly stellate spreading halrs. Leaves an inch or less in brcadth, nonc of them 

 approaching to hastate ; the uppermost 5-parted. Involucel of few, setaceous bracteolcs, shorter than the 

 5-cIeft calyx. Petals light yellow, narrowly obovate, 4 or 5 lines long. Column rather shorter than the 

 petals, bearing less than a dozen anthers. Styles little exserted. Capsule 3 lines wide, loculicidal, acutely 



carinate at the dehiscent sutures. 



Two new United States speclcs of Kosteletzkya, gathered by Rugel along the Manate River, in South- 



ern Florida, are distributed, one, No. 103, under the name of 



(( 



lacifi 



Shuttleworth, n. sp. 



^i 



Hihiscus (Pentasperinum) aUhecefi 



^t 



44), mentioned by Bentham in Hook 



Jour. BoL A.p. 120, may be thus characterizcd, from the complete spccimens which exist in the Hookerian 



herbarium: 



FuGosiA Druwmondii (sp. nov.) : glahrafa ; caulibus e radice perenni dccumbentibus angulatis ; foliis 



ovalibus e basi obtusa 5 - T-nervatis grosse et insequaliter dentatis, dentibus mucronatis; involucello 7-9- 

 phyllo, phyllis linearibus calyce profunde 5-fido paulo breviore ; stigmatibus 4-5 adglutinatis ; capsula 

 subglobosa calycem sequante glabra 4-5-locuIari, loculis dispermis ; seminibus breviler lanuginosis. 

 Gonzalcs, Texas, Brummond. — This has not bcen gathered, so far as I am aware, by any other collector 

 in Texas. But in the Hookerian herbarium there is a fragment of ihe same or a closely allied species from 

 South Brazil. The leaves are from onc to two inches in length, on rather long petioles. The corolla is 

 sulphur-color, or pale yellow, more than an inch in diamcter. 



