Plante Lindheimeriarie. 951 
Industry. June — August. Also, in Drummond's Texan 
Collection. Stems six to sixteen inches high, from a very - 
thick perpendicular root. Leaves mostly broadly oval, and 
obtuse. Flowers large and greenish: calyx pubescent, one- 
third the length of the corolla. Follicles ovate-lanceolate, and 
with a long acuminátion, ** 8-angled, the angles often some- 
"What tuberculated ; the outer one furnished with soft spines, 
or a dentated crest." Lindheimer. This species is nearly 
allied to A. longicornu, Benth., which we find has a similar 
gynostegium, only a little more decidedly 3-lobed at the apex, 
as well as a bifurcated horn, both lobes of which are shorter 
than in our species. There is also a bifurcated horn in 
A. obtusifolia. cci cmn laa 
73. GonoLosus CYNANCHOIDES (n. sp.): caulibus pluribus 
€ radice subtuberoso debilibus basi ramosis adscendentibus 
pilosis} ramis teretibus ; foliis inferioribus. late ovatis, summis 
lanceolato-ovatis, omnibus basi cordatis breviter petiolatis sub- 
lus presertim pubescentibus acutiusculis vel acutatis; pedun- 
culis subnullis vel brevissimis bifloris ; pedicellis basi subulato- 
braeteolatis petiolo sublongioribus ; corolle rotati-campanulatee 
lobis ovatis obtusis intus glaberrimis (extus parce pilosis) 
calycis segmenta ovato-oblonga acuta pilosa excedentibus; 
corona staminea cyathiformi gynostegii-basin cingente 5-loba, 
lobis rotundatis crassiusculis margine tenuiori cinctis, supra 
processu lineari scaphoideo arcuato instructis ; folliculis ovoi- 
deis utrinque attenuatis coriaceis muricatis pubescentibus ; 
seminibus (rufis) orbiculatis marginatis comosis. — Sandy soil, 
IR open woods, near Industry. April — June. (Also, No. 190 
and 203 of Drummond’s second, and 237 of the third Texan 
has Stems 6 to 15 inches high, diffuse ; leaves 1-2 
inches long, cordate, with an open sinus; the uppermost some- 
times almost truncate at the base. . Corolla greenish purple, 
about two lines in diameter. ‘The fleshy lobes of the cup- 
shaped coron: are furnished in the middle with a small pro- 
cess, which is connected at the base with the mid-nerve of 
anther, and is free and incurved at the obtuse point, the 
