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oblong-ovate, 2 to 4 inches long, mostly serrate with some coarse acute teeth : 

 flowers in loose clusters which are leafy at base : petals from three fourths to an 

 inch long : styles mostly distinct to the middle : stigmas more or less dilated : calyx- 

 lobes twice the length of the tube. Bot. Eeg. xxv. t. 32. 



Shaded banks of streams in the Coast Ranges, Meudocino and Humboldt counties (Kellogg, 

 Bolandcr), north to Washington Territory. 



11. CARPENTERIA, Torr. 



Characters of Philadelphus, except that the calyx is 5-parted, its very short tube 

 adnate only to the base of the ovary and the ovate-conical capsule, which is pointed 

 with the undivided persistent style : a thin loculicidally 5-valved epicarp separates 

 from the body of the capsule, which splits septicidally into 5 broad valves, each 

 pointed with its portion of the style, and tardily if at all dividing down the dorsal 

 suture. A single insufficiently known species, named in memory of the late Prof. 

 Carpenter of Louisiana. 



1. C. Calif ornica, Torr. Shrub, apparently tall, with light-colored and lami- 

 nated loose bark, mainly glabrous : leaves broadly lanceolate, entire, thickish, per- 

 haps persistent, 2 or 3 inches long, pinnately veined, whitened beneath with a 

 minute and close pubescence, tapering into a petiole : peduncles long and naked, 

 terminal and from the upper axils : seeds oblong, with a short and obtuse appendage 

 at both ends. PI. Fremont, in Smiths. Contrib. vi. 1 2, t. 7. 



Sierra Nevada, probably on the head-waters of the San Joaquin, Fremont. As yet known in 

 fruit only ; with some vestiges of flowers, from which Dr. Torrey ascertained that there were 

 orbicular petals, and numerous stamens with filiform filaments : also that the parts of the calyx 

 and capsule are sometimes 6 or 7. 



12. WHIPPLEA, Torr. 



Calyx 5-cleft ; the tube adnate to the lower part of the ovary; the lobes thin and 

 petaloid (white or whitish). Petals 5, ovate or oblong with contracted base. 

 Stamens 10 (rarely 8 or 12): filaments subulate or lanceolate: anthers short, 2-celled. 

 Ovary 3 - 5-celled, with a single suspended ovule in each cell. Styles distinct, 

 subulate : stigmas introrse. Capsule septicidally dehiscent into 3 to 5 cartilaginous 

 1 -seeded portions, which open down the ventral suture only. Seed oblong, with 

 a close coat. Small and low diffuse shrubs, pubescent with simple hairs; with 

 opposite slightly petioled and somewhat 3-ribbed leaves, no stipules, and small 

 white cymose-clustered flowers: peduncle terminal, naked. Parts of the blossom 

 occasionally 4 or 6. 



This interesting genus commemorates the late Lieut, (afterwards General) Whipple, the leader 

 of the survey in which the Californian species was discovered. 



W. UTAHENSIS, Watson, the second species, is an upright and much-branched little shrub : 

 leaves thickish, from a quarter to half an inch long, elliptical or linear-oblong, very obtuse, en- 

 tire : cyme rather short-peduncled, 3 - 7-flowered : calyx-tube elongated-turbinate, adnate to the 

 lower half of the cylindraceous 3-celled capsule : styles 3, persistent : seed cylindrical : bud- 

 scales silky- villous. S. Utah near Kaiiab, Mrs. Thompson, Gapt. Bishop. May possibly reach 

 the borders of California. 



1. W. modesta, Torr. Stems slender, spreading or trailing: leaves membra- 

 naceous, ovate or oval, obtusely few-toothed or sometimes entire, an inch or less 

 long : peduncle slender, bearing a small and close few-flowered cluster : flowers 

 hardly 2 lines long : calyx-tube almost hemispherical, adnate to the base of the 

 4-celled (sometimes 3 - 5-celled) ovary and globular capsule : styles at length decid- 

 uous : seed oblong. Pacif. R. Rep. iv. 90, t. 7. 



