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colored. Seeds nearly orbicular, very flat, faveolate-reticulate 
with a thin membranaceous margin 
Oryctes consists of one species, discovered and described by 
Dr. Watson. The original collection lacked specimens in good 
fruit, and his description is a little imperfect. Good fruiting 
specimens have been collected by Shockley, and these show 
that the fruiting calyx is enlarged just as much as it is in Chamae- 
saracha, which the plant also resembles somewhat in habit, and 
that the seeds are wing-margined. 
I. Oryctes Nevadensis Wats. Bot. King’s Exp. 274. 1871. 
Gray, Syn. FL 2: part I, 232. 
Less than 1 dm. high, erect, branched, somewhat scurfy and 
viscid-pruinose, a little pilose with flat hairs; leaves ovate, ob- 
ovate or lanceolate, decurrent on the petiole, entire, undulate, 
somewhat thickish ; flowers in fascicles of 2-4 in the axils of the 
leaves, on short peduncles; calyx-lobes lanceolate, obtuse, shorter 
than the corolla ; corolla tubular, about 6 mm. long, ochroleucous, 
blue or purplish; sinuses induplicate; berry nearly dry, light 
colored. 
Western Nevada: Watson, no. 941, 1868 (type); Shockley, 
1888. : 
