YI. 



PLA^^T^ WRIGHTIANjE. 



23 



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incli long. Sepals barely 3 lines long, united below tbe middle, triangular-ovate, 

 not pointed, in fruit becoming 4 or 5 lines long, and appearing acuminatc by the 

 involution of the edges towards the tip. The fructiferous calyx is as widcly sprcad- 

 ing as in A. hastata. Petals about 5 lines long, yellow, the nearly truncate summit 

 obscurely erose-crenulate. Fruit depressed and stellariform, as in the genus gener- 

 ally, about 5 lines in diameter, very hirsute, usually of 11 carpels; cach of them 

 produced on the back into an appendage as long and conspicuous as in many speci- 

 mens of A. hastata {^Gen. III. 2. t. 124), but broader and more spur-shaped. Seed 

 as in the other species. — I have not seen A. crenatiflora, Ort. (A. parviflora, C«y.); 

 but judging from the description, and from the figure of Cavanilles, our species is 

 to be distinguished by its undivided and not cordate leaves, its glutinous pubes- 

 cence, its longer peduncles, its petals about twice the length of the calyx, the obtuse 

 lobes of the latter, and the manifest dorsal appendage of the carpels. A. pubes- 

 cens, Schlecht. is said to have deeply cordate and sharply acuminate leaves, very 

 acutely acuminate sepals, and muticous carpels. The character of A. lanceolata, 



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Hooh. 8f Aim. (of which the corolla is doubtfully said to be yellow), accords better 

 with our plant ; but that has the leaves velvety undemeath, and the petals (nine 

 lines long) thrice the length of the calyx. 



A. HASTATA, Cav. Diss. i. 1. 11. f. 2; Grai/, Gen. III. 2. t. 127; var. depauperata, 

 floribus parvis. — Mountain valleys at the copper mines, New Mexico, and near 

 Santa Cruz, Sonora; Aug., Sept. (895.) — Another small-flowered form of this, 

 or perhaps a different species, was sparingly gathered, in flower only, in vallcys of 

 Chiricahui Mountains. 



Abutilon Wrightii, Gray^ Pl Wright. p. 20. Rocky hills, from Escondido 



/ 



Creek to Comanche Spring, Wester 



June 



(896.) 



A. Texense, Torr. §• Gray, Fl. 1. ». 231 ; Gray, P/. Wright. p. 21. Alhivial 



from the Piedra Pinta to the Pecos, Texas ; May 



(897.) 



A. PARVULUM, Gray, Pl. Wright 



Stony pr 



Comanche Spring and 



Chicon Creek, Texas ; May. Also between the Limpio and thc Eio Grande 



(898.) 



A. SoNOR^ (sp. nov.) 



petiolisque pilis longis patentissimis hirsutis 



tundo-cordatis acuminatis subtrilobis crenatis vel 



7-9- 



elutino-puberis subtus mollissime cano-tomentosis ; stipulis caducissi 



foliis 



nerviis 



mis ; floribus laxe paniculatis* parvulis ; pedunculis plurifloris ; calycis laciniis ovatis 



acutiusculis petalis flavis capsulaque puberula apice truncata dimidio brevioribus; 



carpellis 7-11 chartaceis mucronatis trispermis. — Hill-sides on the Sonoita, in the 



part of Sonora ; Sept 



(899.) 



Stem 1 to 4 feet hiirh, herbaceous 



& 



what branched, below densely, above more sparsely hirsute, as well as the petioles 

 with shaggy and rather stifi" spreading hair 

 deep sinus nearly closed. 



panicle 



ly naked. Peduncles mostly 



Leaves 3 or 4 inches in diameter, the 

 Floral leaves very small ; the large and loose terminal 



i. Pe- 



al-flowered, nearly glabrou 



dicels articulated towards the summit. Petals only 3 lincs long. Capsule 4 or 5 

 lines long, fully twice the length of the calyx ; the carpels not inflated, thcir apex 

 dorsally tipped with a short and abrupt mucro. 



HiBiscus (Bombicella) denudatus, ^. iNVOLUCELLATUS, Gmy, P/. Wright. p. 22. 



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