Janusia. MA IJ'K ,11 1 ACK.E. 351 



2. MALPlGHIA, Plu.ni. r. (.)/. M,./jn),f,i, c.Kbrutc-d anatomic ^,..1 

 physiuluyibt of 17th cfiitury.; — Amcri.au bhrubs or biuall ire.-h. Fluw.rh not 

 yellow. Tubesceuce when pruseut of ituilptyliiacfons, i. e. Uic<lilixe<J, hair», 

 these in some species rigid and fusiform, very hharp-iK.ii,ted at the two vxmU 

 and stinging.— .Nov. Uen. 40; L. Gen. no. ;Jo« ; Ki.h. in Ju«». Ann. Mu-. 

 xviii. \bO. 



M. glabra. L. (Haki.a.k.ks Chkimiv.) SlTul., wl.ollv Rlat.ruu.. with M.-n.J.-r bnu.rhw: 

 eaves ovale th.nni>l.. inch or tw., 1...,^, aln.ust .se.K.siK. ; ,k..1„,..1,.« axilbrv. ^h..rt. u.nUI. 

 late.y .scveral-Ho«ero.l : petal.s ro.se-re.l or jak-r, with roun.le.l er.*« l.la.lw: druM, n-d. 

 small; the nutlets ol.tusely 4.iadrang«lar, trai.sverKilv ru^.n^t. JK^two.-n th.- ,h..rt cr,-.U or 

 ribs. - Spec. i. 423 (Mill. Ic. t. J81) ; Siui.s. But. Mag. 't. 813 ; Torr. Hot. M.-x Ilound 4H - 

 Corpus Christ! Bay. and lower Itio Grande, Texa*. Srhott, Palmer. JV-rhaiH intn-luc-J 

 (Mc.\., W. liid.) ' 



3. GALPHlMIA, Cav. (Anagram of JA///</<///ja.) — SufTruti.osc or Mif- 

 frutescent, with slender stems and branches terminated by racemes of Uhuallv 

 yellow flowers. — Ic. v. 61, t. 489 ; A. Juss. Malpigh. G7, t. 7. — CliieHy Mexican. 

 G. angUStifolia, Bknth. A foot or two hif,'li : many slender steni.s from liKtieou* lrtl^e 



ami sirii,'nst' piil.csceiit with medifixed hairs or glahrate: leaves glaiirous, glauroufl. variiil.le. 

 lanceolate or linear, acute at both ends and suhsessile, or lower oldonf; to ov.al and ohtujw .it 

 both ends and slender-petioled : raceme virgate, looscly-Howered : pet.iU with oblongotnt« 

 blades (a line or two long), yellow changing to red. — Bot. Sulph 9, t. 5; (Jrav, I'nw. .\m. 

 Acad. V. 155. G. linifoliaX,TAy, PI. Lindh. pt. 2, 166, & (icn. HI. ii. 196, t. 173.' — S. I.-xm, 

 first coll. by Berlandier, theft by Wright, &c. (Adj. Mex., I^owcr Calif.) 



4. HIR^A, Jacq. (/. N. LaHire.) — American shrubs, usuallv some- 

 what twining, and with cymulose flowers at ends of branches. — Knum. I'l. C'arib. 

 4, & .Stirp. Am. 137, t. 17G, f. 42 ; A. Juss. 1. c. 294, t. 19. 



H. macroptera, DC Cilabrous or nearly so: leaves ov.iteoblong to oldong-l.inceol.itc, 

 inch or two long, thinnish : petals yellow, 4 or 5 lines long including the short claw ; blade* 

 rounded, creuulate-erose : fruit-wings when full grown an inch and a h.ilf acn>»s. — I'nxlr. 

 i. 586; A. DC. C.ahjues des Dess. t. 1.30. //. sejilentrmnulia. \. .lu.^s. 1 c. .309; (Jray, I'L 

 Wright, i. 37, & var.. Gray, PI. Thurb. 303. — Below the boundary of Arizona in sJuor*, 

 Thurber, Palmer, &c. (Mex.) 



5. JANtJSIA, A. Juss. (Name in reference to the double facies of the 

 flowers.) — Twining shrubby or suffruticose jilants. Solitary or umbellale-cymu- 

 lose flowers at the ends of the branches or in the axils, the normal with yellow 

 petals and mostly fertile ; the minute cleistogamons ones in same or separate 

 inflorescence. — Ann. Sci. Nat. ser. 2, xiii. 2."*0, & Malpigh. 319. t. '1\ ; lUnth. 

 & Hook. Gen. i. 2G2. 



J. gracilis, Gray. Strigulose with medifixed hairs : numerous very dlendcr difTuM> and 

 somewhat twining stems a foot or two high from a thick ligneous ba-ic : leave.* laiin-olaK^ 

 linear, inch or more long, very short-pet iuled : flowers 1 to 3 t«)golher : |>ot.il.« al>«,ut 2 linc« 

 long, with ovate or sultcordate blade, turning reddish or lirownish : fertile .•itamens 2 or 3 : 

 scarious fruit-wing oblong, 4 lines long. — I'l. Wright, i. 37, ii. .30 ; Torr. I'.icif. U. Kcp. vii. 

 9, t. 1. — Western border of Tex.is to Arizona ; first coll. by Wright. (Adj. .Mex.) 

 .1. CAt.n<')RN'iCA, Benth. Bot. Sulph. t. 4, is a related species from l/owor C.ilifomi.i, «ith 



oval leaves. 



I Add xyn. ThrynUis anguftifolin. Kimfzo. Rpv. Gen. 80; and T. an^ttt/«lin, var. <>/..."i<7«>'i>.'ia, 

 A. M. Vail,' Bull. Torr. Club, x.xii. 228 (G. Unifolia, var. 3. MongifUia, Gray, PI. WriRhl. i. M). lb* 

 broad-leaved form. 



