Plante Lindheimeriane. 915 
ers dirty white." — Mr. Wright has sent the same plant from 
near Austin. The leaves on the flowering branches are from 
an inch to an inch and a half long; those of young sterile 
shoots larger. Tube of the corolla 5 lines long. — I possess 
no specimen of the original L. albiflora; from which this 
apparently differs only as the L. flava &. Torr. & Gray, l. c. 
differs from the type of that species.! 
RUBIACEA. 
(617.) Gatrom vireatom, Nutt. in Torr. & Gr. Fl. 9. p. 
20: var. caulibus laxioribus. — New Braunfels; “covering 
large patches of naked prairie, mixed with little grass. April. 
To this species plainly belongs the Galium Texanum, Scheele ` 
in Linnea, 21. p. 597, gathered by Roemer. 
(618.) G. rrirtorvum, Michx.: forma pusilla, junior, foliis 
subspathulatis. New Braunfels. April. 
(619.) G. vxcisvLATUM, D C. Prodr. 4. p. 600? G. Cali- 
fornicum y. Texanum, Torr. & Gray, Fl. 2. p. 20. New 
Braunfels. April. Allied to this is G. hypadenium, Schauer. 
(247.) Dion tricocca, Torr. & Gray, FI. 2. p. 30. 
Sterile soil in high places, near New Braunfels. June. 
(620.) Hepyorss (Ampniorts) srENoPHYLLA, Torr. & 
baccis brevissime toe Pee erectis, — Santa Fe, t on Pinus brachyp- 
tera, A. Fendler, N — Hooker's A. Ozycedri from t rens dee country 
appears to Bde iuis din figure shows at least su fruits; but the 
segments of th male flowers are broadly oval, while hose t the New Mexican 
plant are “eae a G. ENGELMANN. 
1 From Ai "e made by Lindheimer in 1849, Dr. Engelmann communicates 
yes follow 
(Engelm. Mss.): foliis obovatis obtusis brevissime 
"PS supra demum glabratis ‘subt ‘st us pubescentibus pallidis; floribus (15 - 30) 
in spicas axillares arcte niinus congestis; corollis intus barbatis ; baccis rubris. 
Shady bottom woods, New Braunfels. A small shrub, 2 or 3 feet high, with 
numerous slender branches. Leaves about three fourths of an inch long, an 
inch wide; the wie asses wider, priam orbicular. Spikes from 4 to 6, or in fruit 
8 or 10, lines long. Flowers a little smaller than in S. glomeratus, to to which our 
Species bears a -— affinity. It is, however, distinguished by its 
leaves, the spiked flowers, the larger and apparently more juicy fruit, and the 
broader, more compressed seeds.. Of the numerous flowers in 
each spike only a 
few mature fruit? Engelm. ? 
its smaller, obtuse 
