190 Plante Lindheimeriane. 
pressa cinereo-canescens; caule erecto elato (5-—10-pedali) 
lignescente ; foliis oblongo-lanceolatis acutis repando-den- 
ticulatis; spica multiflora conferta; tubo calycis prelongo 
(4—5-unciali) canescente crassiusculo apice ampliato seg- 
mentis 2—3-plo ovario multoties longioribus ; petalis flabelli- 
formibus maximis (2—3-pollicaribus) stylum vix zquantibus ; 
stigmatibus prelongis; capsula cylindracea subcinerea. — 
Banks of rivulets on the Upper Guadaloupe; also on the San 
Fernando and the Liano. August.— Cultivated from Texan 
seeds, this most showy and almost gigantic species flowers in 
October, either as an annual or a biennial, bearing profusion 
of flowers, of which an unusual number are open at the same 
time. Although altogether like that of an ordinary annual or 
biennial, the tall stem becomes perfectly woody below, and 
often two inches in diameter at the base. The expanded 
corolla is four or five inches in diameter, as large as in . 
Missouriensis ; the anthers three fourths of an inch, and the 
stigmas half an inch, in length. 
395. Lupwieia natans, Ell. Sk. 1. p. 581; Torr. & 
Gray, Fl. 1. p. 526. LL. fluitans, Scheele in Linnea, 21. p. 
580. Comale Spring, in clear rivulets. May, in flower and 
fruit. — This is Elliott’s plant in all respects. 
+ L. pauusrris, Ell. l.c. On the Liano. November. 
(240.) Gaura Drummonnu, Torr. & Gray, Fl. 1. p. 517. 
New Braunfels, April. 
(241.) G. parvirLora, Dougl. in Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am. San 
Antonio. 
(60.) G. stnuata, Nutt.; Torr. § Gray, Ll. c. New 
Braunfels. 
(611.) Gaura surruyta (Engelm. Mss.): annua; caule 
1—2-pedali pilis longis patentibus barbati-villoso; ramulis 
floriferis cum floribus bracteisque glaberrimis ; foliis pilosius- 
culis glabratis lanceolatis utrinque attenuatis repando-sub- 
1 CE. uncinata, Scheele in Linnea, 21. p. 578. is not to be identified by the vague 
description. It was gathered on a prairie near Houston by Mr. Rémer, and is not 
likely to be new. 
