PART 6, 1918] ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS 
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Fendlera rupicola. 
Add the synonym: Fendlera falcata Thornber; Wooton & Standley, Contr. U. S. Nat. 
Herb. 16: 129. 1913. 
Add to the illustrations: Armstrong, Field Book W. Wild Fl. 207; Clements, Rocky 
Mt. FI. pl. 31, f. 11. 
Insert: 
la. Fendlera tomentella Thornber; Wooton & Standley, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 
1621297 “1913: 
A much-branched shrub, mostly 1-1.5 m. tall, with gray ridged branches, the twigs 
finely pubescent; leaves mostly approximate or crowded on short spur-like branchlets; 
blades lanceolate to ovate, 1-3 cm. long, obtuse or acutish, loosely pubescent above, 
hoary-strigose beneath, more or less revolute; flowers on short densely strigose pedicels; 
sepals lanceolate or deltoid-lanceolate, 3-5 mm. long, acute or slightly acuminate; petals 
11-19 mm. long, the blades mostly 8-12 mm. wide, ovate to deltoid-ovate, erose and 
ciliate, broadly curvate at the base; capsule-body 9-11 mm. long. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Cafion of the Blue River near Coopers Ranch, Graham County, Arizona. 
DISTRIBUTION: Southern Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona. 
Whipplea modesta. 
Add to the illustrations: Armstrong, Field Book W. Wild Fl. 205. 
CUNONIACEAE 
By NATHANIEL LORD BRITTON 
Lyonothamnus floribundus. 
Add to the illustrations: Eastw. Handb. Trees Calif. p/. 38. 
ITEACEAE 
By NATHANIEL LORD BRITTON 
Itea virginica. 
Add to the illustrations: Britt. & Brown, Ill. Fl. ed. 2. f. 2193; G. T. Stevens, Ill. 
Guide pl. 61, f. 1; Newhall, Shrubs N.E. Am. f. 49. 
Insert: 
Family 9a. ESCALLONIACEAE 
By JoHN KUNKEL SMALL 
Shrubs or small trees with much branched stems, the branches alternate. Leaves 
alternate, without stipules; blades dilated, usually toothed, often leathery, sessile or 
petioled. Flowers perfect, in racemes or panicles, or solitary. Hypanthium hemispheric, 
turbinate, or flattish. Calyx of 5 broad or narrow, persistent sepals. Corolla of 5 erect- 
spreading imbricate petals. Androecium of 5 stamens inserted under the margin of a 
disk, with slender filaments. Gynoecium of 2 or 3 united carpels. Ovary inferior, 2- or 
3-celled; styles united; stigma slightly 2- or 3-lobed. Ovules numerous in each ovary- 
cavity. Fruit capsular. 
1. ESCALLONIA L. f. Suppl. 21, 156. 1781. 
Evergreen shrubs or trees. Leaves rather numerous; blades various, broadened up- 
ward or narrowed upward, often coarsely toothed. Flowers mostly pedicelled. Sepals 
subulate to ovate. Petals of a spatulate type, the claws erect, the blades spreading. 
Stamens erect; filaments subulate or filiform; anthers rather narrow, ellipsoid to oval or 
ovate. Ovary abruptly narrowed into the style. Stigma often depressed. Capsule 
crowned with the calyx and often tipped with the style. 
Type species, Escallonia myrtilloides L. f. 
