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ficulty to sole cow ova prove the’ necessity of eee Bronnia with 
The flower of Fouquiera splendens, as I have named the 
northern plant, is that oe a true Pouguiera, while the “fruit j is seuzly that of | 
seeands El Paso a curious capparidaceous plant was collected, which 
though unaided and o mbarrassed in different ways, done so much 
towards the easement oo bier knotledge of those northern provinces of 
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| Miuihee: Humb. B. Kunth, charact. emendat. Calyx 5-sepalus, 
imbricatus, persistens. Corolla hypogyn na, gamopetala, longe tubulosa, 
revi 5-partito, patente, aestivatione incomplete contorta. Stamina 
10-15, hypogyna, exserta; filamenta inferne arcuata villosa, basi inter se 
éohaerentia; antherae biloculares, lofpinndinahter dehiscenies, mucroma- 
tae, basi cordatae, i imo dorso affixae, introrsae. Ovarium liberum sessile; 
placentae 3 parietales ad tig ea Nee neque connatae, ovarium inde 
imcomplete triloculare; ovula -18 ascendentia, in quaque placenta 6 
biseriata; stylus filiformis tidus. Capsula coriacea trivalvis; valvae me- 
utae 
3-6 Spee alata s. clits 2 albumen tenuissimum vheth beicasail : 
bryo magnus rectus, cotyledonibus satis , radicula breviori infera. 
Mexican shrubs or trees, with softfragile wood, and tuberculated, angular 
branches, the tubercles bearing spines, and in their axills single or fascicu- 
late obovate entire leaves; sp. ndid cri rimson flowers in ‘Ledvaifial or subter- 
miiial spikes or panicles. At present only, the following species of this 
eee. are known: 
. F. formosa, . fruticosa, spinis brevissimis, foliis solitariis 
cblongis subcarnosis; ‘goribus sessilibus arcte spicatis, staminibus 12; stylo 
"N penerat Senin has alre given in ih text. In New 
Mexico it was seen only 3 or a fat hieh = bat farther south it was found 
from 10 to 20 feet high, and é localities it is said to boa even 
30 feet pe ‘and rarely thicker ak about one inch in diame Bark 
cre hes d ashy ey; spines horizontal, slightly curved, 6 to 3°10 lines 
pearing on old stems; leaves. deciduous fascicled in the axills of 
the» towards the'top of ‘the stem, short-petioled, spathulate, obtuse, 
iy amar Pe: glabrous, somewhat glaucous, 9 to 12 lines long, and 3 
