ADDISONIA 15 
(Plate 8) 
FOUQUIERIA FORMOSA 
Spiked Candlewood 
Native of southern Mexico 
Family FougummRIACEAE CANDLEWOOD Family 
Fouquieria formosa H. B. K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 6: 83. pi. a 1823. 
Echeveria spicata Moc. & Sessé; DC. Prodr. 3: 349. 182 
Philetaeria sidings: Liebm Vidensk. Selsk. Skr. V. 2: 283. a 1850. 
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flowers borne in spikes. ‘The leaves of the new growths ar are about 
one and one half inches long, including the petiole which is about 
one third the length of the leaf. The “‘tiadei is about an inch long 
half an inch wide, elliptic, abruptly short-pointed at the apex, 
wedgesharied at the base. Later leaves, which are fascicled in the 
axils of the spines, are smaller, sessile or nearly so, elliptic, about 
an inch long, usually less than half an inch wide, rounded at the 
apex, wedge-shaped at the base. The spikes are six inches long or 
less, usually bearing not more than a dozen flowers. The green 
sepals are more or less flushed with red and are broadly oval to 
orbicular, about three eighths of an inch long. The corolla-tube 
is about one inch — and somewhat curved, the orbicular lobes 
pubescent area near the base. The anthers are oblong-ovate, 
heart-shaped at the base, acute at the apex, ation a quarter of an 
inch long. The — are united except at the apex and are shorter 
than the longest stamens. 
This differs from all the other knownspecies of Fouquieria in having 
the flowers in a spike instead of a panicle. The plant in our collection, 
which furnishes this illustration, was collected in 1906 by D. T. Mac- 
Dougaland J. N. Rose in Tehuacan, Puebla, and — flowered with 
usin February,1913. Herbarium st een obtained there 
by C. G. Pringle in 1895, on calcareous hills, at an elevation of 
5500 feet; he also collected others at Guadalajara, Jalisco, six 
years earlier. Unfortunately the precise locality of its first collec- 
tion by Humboldt and Bonpland was not recorded. 
There are eight or nine known species of this genus, all inhabiting 
arid regions in the southwestern United States and Mexico. The 
New York Botanical Garden has three under cultivation, Fouquieria 
splendens Engelm. and Fouquieria Macdougalii Nash, in addition 
to the one here illustrated. They are grown in the greenhouse with 
