P^^Q liYDKUPliYLLACEyE. Romumujia. 



oblong, shovt-petioled or sessile : pcilicels recurved in fruit : the enlarged heart- 

 almpod supiils mucji iuir^'or thim thu ovivto pointed 8-sooded capsule ; sUiniuua and 

 stylo inchultiil. 

 Tnickuo I'ubs, kc, Nuvmlii, Walson. Probably oxtoniling to tlio Culiforiiiii lino. 



9. ROMANZOFFIA, Cham. 

 Calyx deeply 5-parted, the lobes similar. Corolla more or less funnelform, not 

 appendaged Avithiu, deciilnous. Stamens inserted on the base of the tube of the 

 corolla, unecpial. Stylo undivided, liliform : stigma small, entire. Ovary and the 

 retuse capsule 2-celled or nearly so. Ovules and pitted-reticulated seeds numerous, 

 on narrow-linear placentai. — Low and delicate perennial herbs, with the aspect of 

 Saxifrages : the leaves mainly radical, all alternate, round-cordate or reniform, cre- 

 nately 7-11-lobcd, long-peti(dcd : the scapes or (lowering stems raccmosely or pa- 

 niculately and loosely biiVend-Uuwored. Coiollu pink or purple, varying to white, 

 delicately veiny. 



A genus of two species, the original one, 11. Unalasclikensis of Chaniisso, found only on Una- 

 laska and adjacent islands. 



1. R. SitcheiiBis, Hongard. Slender filiform rootstocks bearing small grain-like 

 tubers : scapus weak, a s[)an long : i)udicels spreading and lunger than the llowers : 

 calyx-lobes glabrous, oblong-linear or lanceolate, much shorter than the corolla, 

 a little shorter than the capsule: style long and slender. — Veg. Sitka, 41, t. 4 : 

 Hook, f IJot. Mag. t. 6109. 



In shady woods along the Coast Range, especially m redwoods, from Santa Cruz northward ; 

 extending to Alaska. 



10. HESPEROCHIRON, S. Watson. 



Calyx 5 parted, rarely G-7-partod, and the lanceolate or linear lobes sometimes 

 unecpial. Corolla canipanulate or rotate, 5-cleft, rarely 6 — 7-cleft, deciduous. Sta- 

 mens inserted on the base of the tube of the corolla, unecpial, included : lilaraents 

 subulate. Ovary partly one-celled, tapering into a short style, which is barely 

 2-cleft at the tip : stigmas minute. Ovules immerous, on dilated placentaj, borne 

 on incomplete semi-dissepiments. Capsule loculicidal, 15 - 20-seeded. — Dwarf 

 and stemless perennials or possibly biennials, soft-pubescent; with spatulate or 

 oblong entire leaves on margined petioles, and from their axils naked one-ilowered 

 scapes, of about the same length, bearing a solitary purplish or uearly white flower. 

 Base of the calyx obscurely adnate to the broad base of the conical-ovate ovary : 

 seeds rather large, and with a somewhat fleshy minutely reticulated coat. — Bot. 

 King Exp. 281, t. 30; Gray, 1. c. 330. 



An anomalous genus, hut probably of this order, peculiar to California, Oregon, and the adja- 

 cent interior region. Only ono siiucies has been found in California, and it is doulttful if the 

 Bocond is distinct. 



1. H. CaliforniCUS, "Watson, I. c. Leaves cojjious in a rosulate tuft (an inch 

 or two long, besides the petiole into which the bhule abruptly contracts or gradually 

 tapers): corolla obloiig-campanulate ; its lobes shorter than the tube. — Ourisia 

 Calif ornica, Benth. Bl. Ilartw. 327. II. lati/ulius, Kellogg in Proc. Calif. Acad, 

 v. 44, a large state. 



Hills and meadows of the Sierra Nevada, from the Yoscniite nortliward to Washington Territory, 

 and east to Nevada and Utah. Corolla from 5 to 8 or y lines long : the lobes oblong. 



