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POLYGALA PUBERULA, Gray (Pl. Wright. 1, p. 40):—Perennial, with 
several erect or sub-erect stems from the same root, covered with a very 
soft, short, ash-colored pubescence; leaves with very short petioles, ovate, 
_lance-ovate, or lanceolate, obtuse, but slightly mucronate, leafy to the 
raceme, which is lax and somewhat elongated ; flowers and fruit pendulous; 
keel naked; wings ovate or obovate, and very slightly ciliolate; pods oval, 
ciliate, and covered with a very soft down when young; when older, hairi- 
ness is limited to the thickened margin. Floral envelopes are deciduous, 
leaving the pod naked. An interesting, though variable species. (312.) 
Ash Creek, Arizona. (504 and 459.) Camp Bowie, Ariz. 
Monnina* Wricutu, Gray (Pl. Wright 2, p. 31).—Annual, erect, 
smooth; leaves narrowly lanceolate, acutish, entire, with a petiole 4’ long ; 
raceme terminal, or secondary racemes coming out of the axils; fruit and 
flowers on pedicels $-1” long, deflexed ; flowers 1-2” long, greenish, with 
distinct purple blotching; fruit 2” in diameter, winged, on one side much 
larger than on the other. (622.) Sanoita Valley, Arizona. 
KRAMERIA PARVIFOLIA, Benth.—Cienega, Ariz. (572.) Nevada. 
FRANKENIACEZ. 
FRANKENIAt GRANDIFOLIA, Cham. et Schlecht—Stem usually prostrate, 
6-12’ long, woody or hard at base; leaves 6” long, cuneiform, mucronate ; 
margins slightly revolute, thickish, under the lens hairy and ciliate at the 
base, corinected at their insertion by a hairy, stipular membrane. Southern 
* Monnina, Ruiz. et Pav.—Sepals unequal, 2 interior large, petaloid and wing-like. Petals 34 keel 
concave-galeate, entire or broadly 3-lobed (from the two exterior petals being united with the keel 7), 
free ; 2 interior shorter, sub-connivent, variously shaped, inserted upon the stamineal tube. Stamens 8, 
united in a sheath ; anthers 1-2-celled, opening introrsely by an oblique apicular foramen. Ovary 1-2- 
celled; style incurved ; stigma two-lobed at the apex. Fruit indehiscent, 1-2-seeded, either drupaceons, 
or dry and wingless, or margined with a membranous wing. Seeds estrophiolate, glabrous; albumen 
almost none; henner thickish. Herbs, shrubs, or small trees. a alternate or scattered. Raceme 
spike-like, vaca lateral, or occasionally axillary.—BENTH 
t FranKENIA, Linn.—Calyx tubular or prismatic, ieiswwed’s ‘ea 4 or 5 lobes valvate and indupli- 
cate in the sia "Solas 4 or 5, hypogynous; the blade tapering into a claw, which bears an appendage 
(crown) on its inner face. Stamens 4-7 or rarely more, hypogynous. Ovary I-celled, with 2-4, few- to 
several-ovuled parietal placente; style 2-4-cleft into filiform divisions; stigmas unilateral. Capsule 
included in the persistent calyx, 2-4-valved ; the few or several seeds seeds attached by filiform stalks to 
margin of the valves. Leaves small, mostly eiowaedl and also fascicled in the axils, sessile or nearly so, 
the pair often united by a membranous, somewhat sheathing base; flowers small, perfect, solitary and 
sessile in the forks of the stem, or by the reduction of the upper leaves to bracts becoming cymose-clus- 
tered on the branches; corolla pink or purplish.—F1. Cal. i, p. 60. 
