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PLANT^ WRIGHTIAN^ 



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Mexico 



Shrub 3 or 4 feet high, mncli branclied, rigid, glabrous 



and mostly fascicled on short axillary spurs, persis 



Leaves al- 



is, shining, 



3 -5-nerved at the base, r 

 obtuse, often retuse, 5 to 8 lines long 

 much smaller than those of S. frutescens 

 tre of the fascicle of leaves, g 

 doubtless imbricated in sestivati 



eticulate-veined, spathulate, obovate, or cuneiform, very 



Male flower 



Female flower 



gether, closely 



als, hypogynous, deciduous 



Disk 



Sepals 4, orbicular, scale-like, persistent 

 CoroUa of 4 narrowly oblong and obtuse pet- 

 nne Filaments of four abortive stamens small 



hypogynous, alternate with the petals 

 a solitary anatropous ovule 



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Ovary sessile, free, ovate, two-celled, with 



cell. Style nearly 



near 



the b 



of each 



wanting: stigmas 2, oblong-linear, large, divergent, commonly 2-cleft; the lobes 



acute, often unequal, papill 



Drupe globular 



deep scarlet, containing two separable crustaceous py 



ly two lines in diameter 

 Seed with a membr 



Embryo straight, surrounded by a sparing fleshy albumen, nearly of its 

 length: cotyledons oval, foHaceous, plane, occupying nearly the whole breadth of 

 the albumen : radicle very short, iiiferior. — Plainly a congencr of Schaefferia frutes- 

 cens, /ac^., of which I have female specimens only, from Key West, both from 

 Mr. Blodgett and Mr. Rugers collection 

 beloners : 



It is uncertain to what family the genus 



ely not to Rhamnacese, to which De Candolle and Endlicher append 



for the calyx is not valvate, nor are the rudimentary stamens of the female flow- 



S. frutescens has not a slender 

 rge stigmas, much like thosc of 



(which alone I have seen) opposite the petals 

 e, as described by De Candolle, but has two 



the present plant 



MALPIGHIACE^. 



93. Galphbiia linifolia, Gray, Gen. Ill 2. ^. 196, t. 173, §• 1*1 Lindh. 2. p. 

 166. Banks of the Medina River, Texas ; June. 



94. G. LiNiFOLiA, /3. oblongifolia: foliis fere omnibus oblongis; caulibus diffu- 



sis. 



With the foregoing. 



95. AspicARPA HTssopiFOLiA {Gvay, Pl. Lindh. 2. p. 167): caulibus e radice lig- 

 liescente plurimis erectis (5 - 12-pollic.) ; foliis concoloribus lineari-lanceolatis imisve 

 oblongis basi rotundatis vel subcordatis arcte sessilibus ; floribus axillaribus solita- 

 riis, petaliferis pedunculatis sparsis (pedunculo ebracteato folio breviore, petalis fim- 

 briatis), apetalis prsecocioribus in axillis inferioribus sessilibus; coccis reticulatis 

 dorso acute cristatis, lateribus immarginatis. — On the Hio Grande and Rio Seco ; 

 also on the San Felipe, July ; in flower and fruit ; the fruit chiefly from the abnor- 

 mal and more precocious apetalous flowers, which arc closely sessile in the lower 

 axils. In 1851, Mr. Wright gathered a dwarf or early state, barely a span hi 

 exhibiting abundance of apetalous flowers and fruit, but none other. Stems stri- 

 gose-sericeous. Leaves an inch or less in length, hispid-ciliate, otherwise mostly 

 glabrous, veinless. The later petaliferous and pedunculate flowers are occasionally 

 fruitful. — A. Hartwegiana, Juss., has cordate-lanceolate, glabrate, inconspicuously 

 veiny leaves, on very short petioles, the upper acute and mucronate ; the apetalous 

 fertile flowers subsessile in the lower axils, bibracteate; the sides of the rugose- 



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