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PLANTJE WRIGHTIAN^. 



V. 



■t 



SIMARUBACE^. 



85. Castela Nicholsoni, Hooh Bot Misc. 1. p. 271 



56 : Planchon 



Lond 



Jo 



Bot 5. p. 568; Gray, Gen. III. 2. t 158 



z' 



On the high prairies of the San 



Fehpe, &c. ; July, with forming fruit 



Also on the Rio Graude, Texas. — In his 



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\ 



of the Simarubaceee, Planchon has united Castela to that family 



VITACE^. 



L 



86. ViTis ^i^sTiYALis, Mich^. Fl. 2. p. 230 : var. foliis tenuioribus magis dentatis 



J 



tomento tenui decid 







the Blanco River, Texas 



What I had called ^ 



vulpina in Tl. Lindh. 2. p. 166, is the same thing 



* 



V. iNDiYisA, Willd. ; Torr. 8^ Gray, Fl. 1. p. 243. San Marcos, Texas; May, 



V 



Nutt. in Torr. Sf Grau, Fl 



Austin, &c. — Some specimens, and 



all of those gathered by Lindheimer in 1850, have barely three-cleft or thr 

 lobed leaves, none of them trifoliolate. 



RHAMNACE^. 



87. ZizYPHUS OBTUsiFOLTA, Grai/, Gen. III. 2. p. 170. t. 163, §• Pl. Lindh. 2. p. 

 68. Paliurus Texanus, Scheele in Linncea, 21. p. 580. Prairies, Western Texas. 

 Z. LYcioiDEs, Gra^, Pl. Lindh. 2. p. 168. adnot. Between Western Texas 



d El 



New Mexico, Coll. of 



88. CoNDALiA OBOYATA, HooJc. Ic. Pl. t. 287; Torr. $!■ Gray, Fl. \. p. 685; Gray 



Gen. m. t 164, &• Pl. Lindh 



Hills along the Rio Frio and Rio Grande 



88\ C. SPATHULATA (sp. nov.) : humilis ; ramis divaricatis ; foliis spathulatis ob- 

 tusis retusisve muticis nunc obtuse mucronatis inferne longe attenuatis subpetiolatis, 

 venis latissimis nerviformibus subtus prominulis ; pedicellis quam folia dimidio bre- 

 vioribus. — On the Rio Grande, Texas ; and prairies on the San Felipe, July ; in 

 flower. — Shrub from one to six feet, very much branched ; the rigid branches divari- 

 cate, often spinescent : some specimens bear small axillary spines, shorter than the 

 leaves ; others are unarmed. Leaves alternate, or on the flowering branches all fas- 



thickish 



3 to 6 lines long, including the attenuated base, broadest near the apex, 



entire, pinnately 5 - 7-veined ; the veins very broad and prominent under- 



1 in C. microphylla, but not so numerous nor contiguous, nor are the leaves 



so conaceous. Pedicels solitary or fascicled from the centre of the tufts of 



Flowers much as in C. obovata, but smaller, apetalous, pentandrous 



ently one-celled and 



uled. Fruit 



Ovary 



A congener of C. microphylla 



Cav., and with the same venation, which is vcry difFerent from that of C. obovata 



89. Karwinskia H 



Z 



JSfov. Stirp 



1 



Denkschrift 



Baier. Akad. Wissensch. 4.);?. 351. K. glandulosa, Zucc. l. c, t 16. K. Humboldt- 



iana, glandulosa, affinis, & biniflora .'' Schlecht 



Limuca, 15. p. 460. Ehamnus 



t 



Vitis candicans, Engelm. ined. (which is also the V. coriacea of Shuttleworth, Pl. Rugel exsir , 

 from Southern Florida) is not the same as Vitis Califomica, Benth, to which, in P/. Lindh. 2. p. 166 I 

 was disposed to refer it. Perhaps it may be V. Caribaja, BC. ' 



