Plante Lindheimeriane. 165 
356. Mevocnra pyramipata, Linn.; Torr. & Gray, Fl. 
1. p. 683; Gray, Gen. Ill. 2. t. 134. Upper Guadaloupe, on 
rocky soil. August. 
357. Hermannia Texana, Gray, Gen. Ill. 9. p. 88. t. 135. 
Rocks, on the Upper Guadaloupe; in flower; and in high 
rocky prairies on the Salado River; in fruit, October, (585.) 
— This interesting accession to our flora has also been found 
on the Rio Grande by Mr. Wright, and in Northern Mexico, 
by Dr. Gregg. Since the figure above cited was published, 
the plant has flowered in the Cambridge Botanic Garden. I 
must remark that the cinnabar-colored corolla is convolute 
and erect, not at all spreading at any period, as is represented 
in the figure, which was made from a dried specimen. "The 
plant is suffruticose, with a thickened ligneous root. 
VITACEZ. 
358. V. RUPESTRIS, Scheele in Linnea, 91. p. 591. V. 
populifolia, Lindh. ined. Dry, rocky bed of the Cibolo, 
Upper Guadaloupe, and other streams; also in rocky prairies 
on the Pierdenales; flowering in May; the fruit ripe in July, 
August, and September. — Like his other species, this is by 
inches long, half an inch or less in width, and much like those of Spheeralcea angusti- 
folia. The peduncles are remarkably long and slender, and curvéd towards the apex, 
near the articulation, so that the flower and fruit are pendulous. The calyx i is 5-cleft 
to the middle ; the lobes rather obtuse. Th 
in -— It is said by Mr. Wrigh it to be «blue ;” in the dried specimens it is 
dark purple. — The species is probably allied to S. venusta, Schlecht. 
S. CUNEIFOLIA (sp. nov.): _cano-tomentosa, humilis; caulibus x „basi se odd 
assu ramosissimis ; f 5-ner- 
viis crenato-dentatis tatis repandisve utrinque ue concoloribus ; stipulis linearibus petiolum 
subsequantibus ; floribus: (flavis) brevissime pedunculatis folio brevioribus ; carpellis 
brevia mollia demum 
" vibus; seimide globoso. —In subsaline soil, Cm E thirty-five miles north-east 
les Wright.— A well-marked, 
low, procumben t species, in fol oliage and vd not unlike a He . "The soft, 
downy leaves are only about half an inch in length and breadth, on petioles of three 
or four línes long ; the flowers are solitary, or often clustered in the axils, and some- 
times scarcely ex the petioles. The yellow corolla is twice the length of the ca- 
lyx, and is half an inch in diameter when expanded. The ovate carpels are membra- 
naceous, slightly inflated ; the seed is proportionally. large and spherical, as in Abuti- 
lon, with the micropyle somewhat rostellate. 
JOURNAL B. S. N. H. JAN. 1950, 
