Plante Lindheimeriane. 165 
356. Metocuta pyramipata, Linn.; Torr. & Gray, Fl. 
1. p. 683; Gray, Gen. Ill, 2. t. 134. Upper Guadaloupe, on 
rocky soil. August. 
357. Hermannra Texana, Gray, Gen. Ill. 2. p. 88. t. 135. 
Rocks, on the Upper Guadaloupe; in flower; and in high 
rocky prairies on the Salado River ; in fruit, October, (585.) 
— This interesting accession to our flora has also been found 
on the Rio Grande by Mr. Wright, and in Northern Mexico, 
by Dr. Gregg. Since the figure above cited was published, 
the plant has flowered in the Cambridge Botanic Garden. I 
must remark that the cinnabar-colored corolla is convolute 
and erect, not at all spreading at any period, as is represented 
in the figure, which was made from a dried specimen. The 
plant is suffruticose, with a thickened ligneous root. 
VITACEZ. 
358. V. rupestrRis, Scheele in Linnaa, 21. p. 591. V. 
populifolia, Lindh. ined. Dry, rocky bed of the Cibolo, 
Upper Guadaloupe, and other streams; also in rocky prairies 
on the Pierdenales; flowering in May; the fruit ripe in July, 
August, and September. — Like his other species, this is by 
inches long, half an inch or less in width, and much like those of Sphzralcea angusti- 
folia. The peduncles are remarkably long and slender, and curved towards the apex, 
near the articulation, so that the flower and fruit are pendulous. The calyx is 5-cleft 
to the middle ; the lobes rather obtuse. The expanded corolla is only about four lines 
in diameter. It is said by Mr. Wright to be “blue;” in the dried specimens it is 
dark purple. — The species is probably allied to S. venusta, Schlecht. 
S. CUNEIFOLIA (sp. nov.): cano-tomentosa, humilis; caulibus e basi fruticulosa 
assurgentibus ramosissimis ; foliis parvulis rotundato-cuneiformibus flabellato 3 - 5-ner- 
viis crenato-dentatis repandisve utrinque concoloribus ; stipulis linearibus petiolum 
subzequantibus; floribus (flavis) brevissime pedunculatis folio brevioribus ; carpellis 
5 pubescentibus membranaceis turgidis apice inter rostra brevia mollia demum bival- 
vibus; semine globoso.— In subsaline soil, Texas, about thirty-five miles north-east 
of Eagle Pass, on the Rio Grande, September, Mr. Charles Wright. — A well-marked, 
low, procumbent species, in foliage and habit not unlike a Hermannia. The soft, 
downy leaves are only about half an inch in length and breadth, on petioles of three 
or four lines long; the flowers are solitary, or often clustered in the axils, and some- 
times scarcely exceed the petioles. The yellow corolla is twice the length of the ca- 
lyx, and is half an inch in diameter when expanded. The ovate carpels are membra- 
naceous, slightly inflated ; the seed is proportionally large and spherical, as in Abuti- 
lon, with the micropyle somewhat rostellate. 
JOURNAL B, 8. N. H. 22 JAN. 1350, 
