54 ADDISONIA 
flowering season, are two to four inches long, the petiole shorter 
than the ovate blades; the stem-leaves are lanceolate and sessile, 
clasping by a rounded base; all are wholly glabrous, atisia and 
somewhat fleshy-thickened, ‘and q uite entire. The panicle, some- 
times becoming half the height of the plant, is strongly. secund, 
strict and composed of six to nine nodes; the branching is of the 
type of P. Digitalis (Plate 130), but its structure is masked by the 
Sh ices of the lateral peduncles, so that the primary peduncle 
appears to bear a single cluster of three to six flowers; the bracts 
The sepals are o 
with erose scarious violet-whitish margins, and are about one fourth 
of an inch long. ‘The corolla is nearly one inch long, its throat 
gradually expanding, arched above and rounded beneath, the 
glabrous, but within over the bases of the anterior lobes it is pubes- 
cent with slender white hairs. The stamens are essentially as in 
P. hirsutus (Plate 145), the anther-sacs oblong, violet, and einteGal: 
The sterile filament is conspicuously widened distally, and densel 
bearded to the apex with orange-golden hairs. The capsule is 
ovate in outline, acuminate, glabrous, nearly one half inch long, 
and the seeds are brown, curved and sharply angled, about one 
eighth inch long. 
Francis W. PENNELL. 
EXPLANATION oF PLATE. Fig. 1.—Flowering stem. Fig. 2,—Flower, split 
open exposing stamens. Fig. 3.—Anther, with part of filament, <4. Fig. 4.— 
Fruit. Fig. 5.—Lower leaf. 
