IVEOPHITON. 7i 



Tf/^' o""^,^^^'^^^ '^ Jussieu united thereto by 

 W. 1 differs by calix 5M, tube ventricose be- 

 low and capsule globose. 



i^o'*' Htissema juivcea. Zuc. in bot. reg. 

 177J. Branches 4gone erect virgate, leaves 

 minute petiolate ovate subentire, peduncles fdi- 

 form subbiflore— Texas and Mexico, ilowers 

 scarlet. 



405. RussELiA FLAMMEA Raf. Gcrardia do 

 Bartr. trav p. 412. stem ramose pyramidal, 

 leaves lanceolate '{ flowers in a pyramidal Ibli- 

 ose panicle— Alabama, indicated 60 years ago 

 by Bartram, and still not in any work nor gar- 

 den as yet: although a splendid plant 4 feet 

 high, crowded with large scarlet flowers, tubu- 

 lar and bilabiate ; theVefore referable to this 

 Genus, unless it is a new one to be called Fla- 



MARIA COCCINEA Raf. 



406. MACR ANTHER A Torrey 1835. Con- 

 radia Nuttal 1834 but not of Martins. Calix 

 deeply 5M, corolla tubular border 5fid sube- 

 qual. Stamens 4 subequal exserted, filaments 

 hairy, anthers linear sagittate. Style long fili- 

 form, stigma simple or bifid. Capsule ovate 

 acum. polysperm, as in Aureolaria. Peren- 

 nials, leaves opposite divided, flowers axilla- 

 ry racemose yelloiv on long reflexed incurved 

 peduncles. — I adopt the nam'e of Torrey in- 

 stead of Oonradia already twice emploved, by 

 myself in 1825 for my Leptiiix Neog. 25 for the 

 American Tofieldas, sec Abama 1st part, and 

 also by Martius, Macranthera is not however 

 a very good name as the anthers are not very 

 k)ng, the name of Toxorus (Raf.) meaning in- 

 curved peduncles would have been better, but 

 the 2 sp. known (and there may be more) ap- 



