Fraiikfnia. FRANKKXIACE.E. 207 



deciduous: flowers in terminal raceme, lar^e, mainly yellow. — Moe. & Sesse in 

 DC. I'rodr. ii. G38 ; Planclion in llook. Lon«l. Jour. liot. vi. 140; Gniv, 1*1. 

 "Wright, i. 29, ii. 26 ; Benth. & Hook. Gen. i. 124. 



A. palmatifida, Mo(;. & Sesse. A foot or two hi^h : loaves almost 7-9-j>artod into xpatii- 

 latci luljcs : jjetals inch and a lialf <jr less long, orange with t»rown purple sp-a at luwc : cap- 

 sule ovate-globu.se : seeds reniforni-iticnrved, with the deiitate outer coat close, minutelv 

 hirsutc: embryo simple, arcuate-incurved ; cotyledons oblong. — Moc. & .Sesse' in DC. Trixir. 

 ii. 638, & Cabiuos des Dess. t. 1171 ; llemsl. Biol. C'entr-.Vm. Hot. i. 5.5; .1. pnlmntijida & 

 A. Schit demur, I'lanchon, 1. c. 141, t. 1 ; Gray, I'l. Wright ii. 20, t. 12. A, fruit. K,ir>iiu,the 

 Schiedt'uiia, Cham. & Schlecht. Liun.x^a, v. 22.5. — Foothills of the mountains of S. Ariwuia. 

 Wriyht, Rothrock, Pringle. (Mex., New Greuada.) 



A. Wrightii, Gray. Resembles the preceding: but leaves less deeply 5-7 -cleft iuto oIkv 

 vate lobes: capsule oblong-ovoid and 2 inches long or smaller and shorter: seeds obovate, 

 with short distinct rhaphe, uot incurved ; outer coat glal)rous, loose and arilliform ; cotyledons 

 nearly orbicular, fle.xuous. — PI. Wright, ii. 26 ; Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. .wii. ;J24. A. Siltn- 

 diana, Gray, PI. Wright, i. 29 (excl. syn.), t. 3, B, fruit. — Hills and arid plains, S. Tex-xs to 

 Arizona, Wright, Thurberf Palmer, Recerchon. (Adj. },lc\., Berlandur, &c., aud farther 

 south.) 



A. MALv.i:F6LiA, Gray, PI. Wriglit. i. 29, from Chihuahua, if distinct from the last, needs 

 more elucidation. 



Order XVII. FRANKENIACE^. 



By a. Gray. 



Low perennial herbs or under.shrubs, in saline soil ; witli opposite or 4.natft 

 and subsessile entire thickish leaves (and commonly a.villary £a.scicle.s), a stipular 

 membraiie or line connecting their bases : regular and complete small hvpogy- 

 nous flowers ; calyx and corolla 4r-5-merous, the sepals united into a tube and 

 persistent in the manner of Silenece and the petals in same way lon<T-un"-uiculate 

 and crowned at base of the blade ; stamens as many as petals and alternate with 

 them or more numerous ; style 3-4-cleft with narrow lobes iutrorsely or in ours 

 almost terminally stigm.itose ; ovary one-celled with 2 to 4 one-raany-ovulate 

 parietal placentre ; capsule included in the caly.v, dehi.scent through the placenta' : 

 seeds straight and anatropous, .slender-stalked, with crusticeous coat : and mostly 

 cylindrical straight embryo in the axis of mealy albumen. —Single and widely 

 dispersed genus. 



1. FRANK:6NIA, L. (J. Frankenius, Profes.sor of Medicine at Up.sal 

 in the 17th century ) — Gen. no. 362. 



# Nearly or quite herKiceous : style .3-cleft : ovules numerous and Bee<ls se^ ernl : leave.s plane 

 or nearly so when fresh. 



F. grandifolia, Cham. & Schi.kcht. Erect or a.'^cending from a pnKMimbent Imm. a foot 

 high, more or less pubescent, divergently branched : l.aves large for the genu-, (half inch -r 

 less long), from round-obovate to sp.atulafe. tlie short jK-titde or o.nne.tii.g bases m..>ilv 

 hirsute-ciliate : petals mo.stly 5, purple; stamens 4 to 7, comnjonlv :>.— i.inn.Ta. i. .I.'.; T.-rr. 

 &Gray, Fl. i. lOS; Torr. Bot. .Mex. Bound. 36. t. .5; Bn'w. & Wats. B..t. Calif, i. W. 

 F. grandifolia &, F. Intifnli,,, Presl, Kel. Hank, ii 3. \\lr:ln latif<Ji,i. Ksch. Mem. Acad. 

 Petrop. X. 286. — Coast ,.i c.lif.n.i , fr..,,, s,„ i-.-.ncisco Bay to San Diejfo; firvt coll. by 

 Ho'ukf. 



