914 Plante Lindheimeriane. 
Guadaloupe and Pierdenales. Comanche Spring. April. 
“A rough, unsightly shrub, from 4 to 6 feet high; only the 
young shoots show any inclination to climb or twine. Flow- 
on the three or four last joints, one or two in each axilla. Ree iai 0.3 of a 
pas wide and 0.4 long, on very short, enclosed pedicels, which apparently are elon- 
ted immediately after flowering. Pedicelof the young fruit nan eni not seen) 
ha a length of the fruit. 
Americanum (Nutt.): caule ramisque — — undi 
patu ulis; d truncatis in vaginulas dilatatas cupulifo us 
mascu lis illaribus terminalibusque nec spicatis. coc on seen  Nuttáll. — 
Considerably resembling the slender forms of var. a. of the next species, but 
smaller, sl rer, and at once distinguished by the terete branches, the fasciculated 
branchlets, and much dilated vaginule. Female plant and fruit unknown to me. 
**3. A. CAMPYLOPODUM (». sp.): ramis oppositis seu dichotomis compresso- 
; squamis truncatis breviter cuspidatis in vaginulas subcylindricas 
— connatis ; floribus axillaribus _terminalibusque plerumque in spicam 
i singulis vel binis n ternisve, fæmineis 
in quavis axilla dagulin(: à —_ exserto-pedicellatis patulis s. recurvis. — Var. a. 
RTHRON: to; ramis 
artieulis plus minus Sdn — femineis sparsis et in ramulis brevibus 
paucis seu in spicas simplices aggregatis.— 8. ? s RACHY ARTHRON : caule tereti ro- 
busto; ramis robustis articulis PERSA — vix | ibus; floribus 
faimineis i inspicas densas compositas aggregatis.— I have com comprised under € 
name different "iiem Which, when better dios will probably have to be separa 
ime 
ties will finally be — under one species, — Var. a ound in Oregon 
o rosa), Geyer; in New Mexico (only: on Pat edulis,) Fendler, 
las. — The specimens from New Mexico (only male 
eps dead Sowers te have short female spikes, bearing 2 to 5 flowers, or the 
ter e branchlets: the flowers are elliptical, 0.4 lines wide and 
0.5 fk almost seii poner Oregon plant (I have seen only a fruiting speci- 
ed i 
e 
vate; pedicel hardly one third the er of the (not quite ripe) fruit. The Cali- 
flowers 
as large as in the Specimen s poe New Mexico, and not rarely 4-parted ; 
in more spikes, elliptico-orbicular, small, 0.4 to 0.5 line in 
diameter; the recurved pedicel more than half the length of the fruit, which is 2 
lines long and 1,3 wide. — Var.? 8. has been collected in Mexico by Coulter. 
I can hardly doubt it to be a distinct species ; but my means to distinguish it are at 
present too limited. The stoni it terete stem, the short j joints which are hardly longe 
an 
und 1.2 lines in teminiai AA 2h cu pedicel more than half as long as the 
*4. A. caYPTOPODUM (n. sp): caule ramisque acute quadrangulatis robustis 
articulis brevioribus ; 1 atis ; floribus in 
spicas densas compositas congestis, femineis ovatis i quai via sigle; 
