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PLANT^ WRIGHTIAN^. 



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BYTTNERIACE^. 



66. Melochia ptramidata, L 



Grai/, Gen. III. 2 



134, &• PlLindh. 2. p 



165 



Western Texas, in wet place 



67. Hermannia Texana, Grav, Gen. III. 2. p. 88 



13 



Rio Grande, Westem Texas 



I 



already remarked 



2. p. 165 



the coroUa is wrongly represented 



On the Sabina and 

 Planta Lindheimeri- 

 panded in tlie fi 



above cited of tliis interesting plant ; the drawing having been made from a dned 



specimen. 



(644.) Ayenia pusilla, L 

 488 : var. tenuiter pubescens ; 



Cai\ Diss. 5. p. 289. /. 147; DC. Prod 



l.p 



datis 



Hill-sides from 



Mexico ; July, Au 



The seeds 



•um assurgentium foliis ovato-lanceolatis subcor- 



San Pedro River to near the Rio Grande, New 



ce coarsely rugose-corrugated, as in the West 



Indian A. pusilla ; of which Mr. Rugel has gathered a small-leaved fonn at Key 



ys 



(645.) A. pusilla, var. ramis erectis, foliis superioribus lanceolatis 



prseced 



Plills a 

 tiof 18 



head of the San Felipe, Western Texas, July. Also in the 



It has a thick, manifestly perennial 



Tliis and the pre 



have so much the aspect of a Tragia as to have been passed as such in the dis 



tribution 



(77.) A. microphylla (sp 



fruticosa, humilis ; caulibus ramosissimis ; fol 



parvis ovato-rotundis grosse dentatis pube stellata brevissima fructibusqu 



in ramulos confertis; stipulis sub 



per 



psula non stipitata 



Mountain-sides, near El Paso ; Sept. — Stems a span high, woody and rigid, as are 

 also the spreading branches ; the growth of the preceding year more or less squar- 

 rose with the short and the subulate persistent stipules. Leaves only 2 or 3 lines 

 long, roundish, obtuse, coarsely toothed, often subcordate, marked with a fcw strong, 

 straight veins, on short petioles. Fruit nearly a quarter of an inch in diameter, on 

 a peduncle of less than that length, and not at all stipitate, 5-coccous, 

 pubescent, and verrucose-echinate with soft processes. Seed solitary in each ccll, 



cmereous- 



oblong 



Unfortunately, I find not a single flower upon the scanty specimens 



d 



only a few capsules ; but I doubt not it is an Ay 



'5 



and a very distinct 



TILIACE^. 



68. Corchorus pilolobus, LinJc, Emm. hort Berol. 2. p. 72; DC. Prodr. 1. 

 p. 504, ex Shuttleworth in sched. Pl. JRugel. et. lltt. C. septentrionalis, Planchon in 

 herh. Hook. C. siliquosus, Torr. 8f Gray^ Fl. 1. p. 239; Gray, Gcn. III. 2. t. 127, 

 non Linn. Along streams, San Pedro River, &c. ; Aug. Also on the Rio Grande, 

 Texas. — This is perfectly distinguished from the West Indian C. siliquosus, Linn.., 

 as pointed out by Mr. Shuttleworth, by the proportionally shorter pods, conspicuous- 

 ly acuminated by the undivided style (not obtuse and two-toothed at the apex). 

 Link's name is not an appropriate one, as the pods are only minutely and inconspic- 

 uously hairy or pubescent. The true C. siliquosus has also been found in Key 

 West, by Mr. Blodgett and Mr. Rugel. 



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