Whipplea. SAXIK]iA(}ACK^C. 203 



obloiic^-ovate, 2 to 4 innlios long, mostly sernito witli some coarsn acute teotli : 

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

 inch lon^r: styles mostly distinct to the'miildle: stigmas more or less dilated: calyx- 

 lohes tw?ce the length of the tube. — Bot. Reg. xxv. t. 32. 



Shaded banks of strcnmfl in tlio Coast Hiingcs, Mniulocino n\n\ lluiiiboldt couuiicn {Kellogg, 

 linlnnder), north to Washington Territory. 



11. CARPENTERIA, Torr. 



Characters of PhUadclplim, except that the calyx is H-pjiried, its very short tube 

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

 with the undivided persistent style : a thin loculicidally r)-valvcd 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. Californica, 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 ui)per axils: seeils oblong, with a short and obtuse appendage 

 at both ends. — PI. Fremont, in Smiths. Contrib. vi. 12, t. 7. 



Sierra Nevada, j.rolwl.ly on tlie hend-wators of the San Joaqnin, Fremont. As yet known in 

 fruit only ; witli some vestiges of llowers, from wliieh Dr. Torroy aseertnined that there were 

 orbicular netals, and numerous slainons with iihfnnn lilanients : also that tlic i)arts of the calyx 

 nnd cni)a\ue are sonietiincs (i or 7. 



12. WHIPPLEA, Torr. 



Calyx 5-cleft; the t>d)o 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): lilaraents subulate or lanceolate: anthers short, 2-celled. 

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

 subulate : stigmas introrso. Cajisido septicidally dehiscent into 3 to H cartilaginous 

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

 a close coat. — Small and low diffuse shrubs, pubescent with sim])le hairs; with 

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

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

 occasionally 4 or 6. 



This interesting genus commemorates the late bieut. (afterwards (Jeneral) Whipple, tlie leader 

 of the survey in wliich the ("alifornian species was discovered. 



W. Utauensis, Watson, the seeond species, is an upright nnd mueh-hrnneheil little ahruli : 

 leaves thickish, from a quarter to half an iiieh long, elliptical or linenr-ol.long, very ohtuse, en- 

 tiro : cyme rather short-peduncled, 3-7-ilowcred: calyx-tube elongated-turbinatc, adnate to the 

 lower lialf of the eylindraeeous .3-celled capsule : styles 3, persistent : seed cylintlrical : bnd- 

 scales silky-villous. — S. Utah near Kanab, Mrs. Thompson, Cn.pt. 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 t.oothed or sometimes i-iitire, an inch ov less 

 long : peduncle slender, b(!aring 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 an<l globular capstde : styles at length decid- 

 uous : seed oblong. -- Pacif H. Pi^p. iv. 00. t. 7. 



