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RUBIACE^. 



234. Galiuji (Relbunium) microphyllum (sp. nov.): glaberrimum, humile; 

 caule caespitoso ramosissimo diiFuso; foliis quaternis lineari-Ianceolatis arcte sessili- 

 bus rigidulis mucronatis marginibus nervoque valido laevissimis pedunculos unifloros 

 quantibus ; flore cum fructu glabro in involucro tetraphyllo sessili. — Mountains 



at the Pass of the Limp 



Aug 



Root perennial, reddish. Stems 



of rocks, and in the valley of the Limpi 



leafy ; the strong obtuse 



span long, herbaceous, slender, very 



like the whole plant, perfectly smooth. Leaves 



two or tlirce lines long, their sessile bases almost connate, the lower lanceolate. 

 Peduncles axillary, onc-flowered, but the four-Ieaved involucre is sometimes prolifer- 



Involucre like the ordinary leaves, longer than the small, " yellow," tetramerous 



ous. 



flowcr, and the glabrous, but minutely pruinose fruit. Lobes of the corolla 



obtuse. — This should be 



pared with Eubia Isevigata, DC, described from 



HaBnke's coUection, which has ovate-oblong or ovate-lanceolote 



oblon 



barely in flower, are in the 



Youngi 



of 1851; their lower leaves 



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Nutt, var. diffusum Jcaulibus demum ramosis laxis; peduncu 



ders of Texas 



floriferis plerisque folia superantibus ssepe prolifi 



of 



Western bor 



Each flower is subtended either by a pair of leaf- 

 like bracts, as m the ordinary G. virgatum, or by a whorl of four leaves ; from which 

 the branch is sometimes proliferous. 



. ^^\^' (Trichogalium) Wrightii (sp. nov.): sufl-ruticosum ; caulibus ramosis- 

 simis diff^usis ramisque hirsutis ; foliis quaternis 



^^^ternis oblongis submembranaceis uniner- 



pihs patentibus hirsutis ; floribus pedicellatis in cymulis terminalibus 



rubro-purpurea ; fructu setis longis apice non uncinatis hispidissimo. 



laxis; corolh 



Crcvices of rocks, on mountains^ 

 12 inches high from a thick woody ba; 

 to four lines long, sessile, obtuse, often 

 ameter, deep red-purple, the lobes acun 

 rather longer than its diameter.t 



Pass of the Limpia ; Aug. — Stems 6 



the branches slendei 



Leaves from 



piculate. CoroIIa half a line in di 

 Bristles of the fruit white, straight 



236. Bou 



the Pass of the Limpia; Au 



H.B.K. Nov. Gen. 8r 8p. 3. p. 384. Hill-sides 

 ,1 •, . ,r . ^ -^' (^^^'t^e™ Mexico, Wislizenus, Greqq - and n- 



!^^:fr"'!"™' ^r^^-> ^'.^PP-- t» P- -to the pubescent fof '„f wha 



called B. Jacq 



Some specimens in the collection 



of 



have more herba 



T'.!'rl ^'^"^' '''''"^ '^^^^'' «- "PP» - -horls of from four to ^e.enZ 



fe-- flow 



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* No. 186 of Coulter*s Mexican collectinn /fmm '7;^^ \ • 

 varicy, whh „,e n,a,gi„s of .he iJes^Xh^^ ' " " ' "'"'' '""'"' ^'"^^ " '""" 



Nutt. in Torr. &- Gra», Fl 



. Ch«ia„ species by Hooker and A.„o... I. ™ay ie.eforo be ca ie G ~J^''' '' '""'^''''' "" 



t Bouvariia glaberrima, Engelm. in Wisl N M,, „ inc ■ b "^- f"'^^^^'-"- 

 a„d also apparemly .l>e HousLia cJ^LAlLt^l^: f '-'i-;. «-*- - Bo,. Ma,., 

 Ic. 4. (. 305. • ' ""'• ■""•'""• '■ ""6. ^ltl the Ixora cocoinea, Cm. 



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