156 UNITED STATES AND MEXICAN BOUNDARY. 



but never encRses it^ nor does it become inflated. The corolla is much more rotate than cam- 

 panulate. 



NiEKEMBERGiA ANOMALA , liters 171 EooJc, Loiid. JoiiT. Bot. 5, p, 175^ & III. Ij t. 20; Dunal^ L c. 

 p. 588^ Leucanthea Eoemeriana^ Scheele in Linncea 25^ p. 250. Bouchetia erecta, DC. 3ISS.; 



Dimal^ I. c. Western Texas ; Wright 



Edwards. (No. 345 



^^^ ^^ ^^^ m 



Coll. Ill, Texas, Driimmond.) This corresponds exactly with the figure of Miers^ who states 

 that the Texan plant differs in no respect from the South American N. anomala. Stamens some- 



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times only 4 and subdidynamouS; or when 5 one of them smaller. Seeds roundish, reticulate. 

 Browallia (Leptoglossis) Texana (n. sp.): annua, vicoso-pubescens ; caule e basi ramoso 



petiolum 



ramorum 



ollfe tubo gracili apice subgibboso calyce triplo longiore, limbi laciniis orbicularis sub^equalibus. 

 Near the niouthbf the PeooSj September — October ; Bigelow^ Pope. (No. 535, Wright.) Plant 

 a span bigh, dull green ; leaves about three-fourths of an inch long^ rather acute. Pedicels 3-5 

 lines long. Calyx 5-cleft ; the lobes ovate and acute. Corolla salver-form ; the tube very slen- 

 der^ 8 lines long, gibbous at the summit ; limb flat and somewhat oblique^ 6 lines in diameter, 

 purple. Stamens inserted in the throat of the corolla^ didynamous. Capsule globose-ovate, 

 scarcely one-third the length of the fructiferous calyx ; the valves at length bifid at the summit. 

 Seeds irregularly oblong, strongly rugous transversely. Embryo a little curved. This plant 

 clearly belongs to Leptoglossis of Bentham, and is nearly related to L, Schwenkioides, We 



theg 



W 



from 



we are not prepared to go so far as to unite these plants and certain tribes of the latter family 

 into an intermediate order. The limits of these orders can not yet be fixed with any degree of 

 precision. 



GENTIANACE-^. 



Eraser A SPECIOSA, Dougl. M8S.\ Hook. Fl. Bor.-Amer. 2yp. 66, t, 153. Copper Mines, New 



Mexico, and near the Rio Mimb 

 the valves ; 40-50-seeded. 



Capsules slightly compressed, contrary to 



Frasera Parrti (Torr. in Fl. Whijypl. p. 126) : caule erecto tereti glabro ; foliis caulinis 



oppositis ternisve lanceolatis undulatis, floralibus (bracteis) ovatis pedicellis multo brevioribus ; 

 sepalis ovatis albo-marginatis ; petalis ovato-lanceolatis sepala subsequantibus, fovea lunata soli- 

 taria, corona obsoleta. Mountains east of San Diego, California, on the eastern slope, June ; 

 Parry. ' No, 558, California, Coulter. Stem 2-3 feet high. Radical leaves clustered, the upper 

 cauline ones mostly ternate, the whorls remote. Flowers numerous, in a terminal panicle nearly 

 an inch in diameter. Petals greenish white, speckled with purplish linear dots ; the pit or gland 

 lunate, with the horns pointing upward, fringed with hairs around the margin. Corona a mere 

 narrow, slightly ciliate border. Fruit not known. Nearly allied to F. Carolinensis, but that 

 species has the leaves in 4s and 5s, a leafy panicle, linear lanceolate sepals, and roundish-oval 



entire glands. 



Erythr^a chironioides. Gyrandra chironioides, Griseh. in DC. Prodr. 9, p. 44. (Tab. XLII.) 



m 



Gila. (No. 3191, Berlandier.) 

 specimens. Var. ^: floribus latera 



E. Muh. 



lenbergii, Griseh. I. c, (quoad pi. Calif.) Dry soils around San Diego and in many other parts 



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