198 SAXIFRAGACEA. LEPTAXIS. 
TELLIMA. 
H. vyiolacea Wheelock Bull. Torr. Club xxiii, 71. Suksdorfia violacea 
Gray. \iscid-pubescent throughout: stems slender, 6-10 inches high, 
from a small bulb-like caudex which is covered with bulblets that are 
borne in the axils of the radical leaves: lower leaves round-cordate. cren- 
ately lobed and toothed, on slender petioles with scarious dilated base, 
upper ones obovate, 3-5-lobed, on short petioles with foliaceous stipular 
base: petals violet, entire or sometimes 2-3-lobed, spatulate, attenuate 
below to a long claw, 5-6 lines long, much longer than the acuminate at 
Jength conniyent lobes of the calyx: capsule oblong; carpels united to 
near the top, the short beaks diverging: seeds oblong, with a close light- 
colored testa. On moss-covered rocks, along the Columbia river near 
Viento Oregon and on the opposite side of the river near the mouth of the 
White Salmon river. 
9 LEPTAXIS Raf. Fl. Tel. ii. 75. 
FOLMIEA T, & G. Fl. i, £82; not Hook. 
Perennial herbs with cordate leaves on long petioles bearing a 
bud at the base of the blade, and simple stems with long ebrac- 
teate racemes of purple flowers on short pedicels. Calyx cylin- 
drical, free from the ovary, unequally 4-cleft, the tube split down 
the lower side and gibbous at base, imbricate in the bud. Petals 
4, filiform, entire, inserte| between the lobes of the calyx, per- 
sistent. Stamens 4, scarcely exserted, inserted into the throat of © 
the calyx opposite the three larger lobes: filaments subulate, 
unequal; anthers reniform, 2-celled, the cells confluent at the 
apex. Ovary stipitate at base, 1-celled, with two parietal placen- 
te; stigma obtuse. Capsule l-celled, many-seeded,. 2-valved at 
the apex, the valves equal. Seeds small, globose, muricate-hispid. 
L. Menziesii Raf.1.c. 76. Tolmiea Menziesti T. & G. Hispid-pubescent 
throughout: stems clustered, 1-3 feet high, from a creeping: branched 
caudex: leaves cordate, acute, obscurely lobed and repandly cuspidate- 
toothed. ciliate, 1-4 inches long, the lower on long petioles, the upper ones 
with petioles successively shorter until they become sessile bracts: racemes 
many-flowered, elongated; calyx cylindraceous, purple-veined, the upper 
lobes oblong, obtuse, the lower one narrow, acuminate, shorter; petals 
brown, filiform, somewhat dilated in the middle, recurved; filaments sub- 
ulate, the upper one inserted lower down on the tube of the calyx than 
the other 2: capsule oblong, 2-valved, the valves beaked with the indur- 
ated styles, the valves spreading in age. Common along mountain streams 
from brit. Columbia to California. 
10 TELLIMA R. Pr. App. Frankl. Journ. 765. 
Perennial herbs with roundish-cordate leaves on petioles with 
dilated and somewhat stipuliform base and rather large flowers - 
in elongated simple somewhat spicate racemes. Calyx campanu- 
late, obconie and coherent with the ovary at base, free and in- 
flated above, 5-toothed, valvate in the bud. Petals 5, inserted in 
the throat of the calyx, laciniate-pinnatifid, deciduous. Stam- 
ens 5 or 10, inserted on the tube of the calyx; anthers 2-celled, 
ovate. Styles Z, short and distinct: stigmas capitate, obscurely 
3-lobed. Capsule 1-celled with 2 parietal many-seeded placente, 
2-beaked, opening between the beaks. Seeds horizontal. 
