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of the Sulphur, the (light purple) corolla larger, 2 inches in diameter, and the invo- 

 lucel (of which traces are visible in the South Californian plant) manifest, although 

 inconspicuous, about the length of the tube of the calyx. I see no further differ- 

 ence on comparison of the specimens. The figure cited above is not a good one. — 

 Specimens in Mr. Wright's collection of 1851, just received, are more branched 

 and leafy than those here characterized, and well agreeing with the original Califor- 

 nian specimens, except that the setaceous involucre is manifest. The name of the 

 species is not well chosen. 



65. H. (Bombicella) Coulteri {Harvey, ined.) : humilis, strigoso-hispidus ; cau- 

 libus sufFruticosis erectis 1 - 3-floris ; foliis trilobis trisectisve dentatis vel infimis 

 ovatis indivisis ; stipulis setaceis ; pedunculo folium multo superante ; involucello 

 10-phyllo, phyllis lineari-setaceis lacinias calycis 5-partiti lanceolato-acuminatas tri- 

 nerves subeequantibus corolla speciosa sulphurea dimidio brevioribus ; capsula glo- 

 bosa demum glabrata, loculis pleiospermis. — High hills of the San Pedro River; 

 July. Also Zimapan, Mexico, Coulter (809), and Paso de Caritas, Gregg. — Stems 

 a span to a foot high, strigose with appressed stellate hairs. Leaves strigose, about 

 an inch wide, variable in form and in division, mostly three-lobed; the lobes 

 oblong or lanceolate, irregularly toothed. Peduncles 2 or 3 inches long, one-flow- 

 ered, articulated near the flower. Calyx, involucel, and the young capsule strong- 

 ly hispid. Petals spreading, broadly obovate-cuneiform, from an inch to an inch 

 and a half in length. Column much shorter than the corolla. Style filiform, twice 

 the length of the column, 5-cleft at the summit. Seeds clothed with long woolly 

 hairs.* 



* We have a new Kosteletzkya from Coulter's Mexican collection, viz. : — 



KoSTELETZKYA CouLTERl (sp. nov.) : humilis, parce hispidula ; caulibus ramisve gracilibus ; foliis rotun- 

 dis siibcordatis dentatis vetustioribus glabratis, inferioribus sublobatis, superioribus 5-fidis vel pedatis ; pe- 

 duncutis axillaribus unifloris petiole floreqiie parvo luteo SEepius brevioribus ; antheris paucis ; capsula pu- 

 berula acute 5-carinata, carinis (suturalibus) ciliato-hispidis ; seniinibus glabris. — Sonora Alta, Northern 

 Mexico, Coulter (No. 804). — The stems or branches are a foot long, simple, sparsely hispid, like the 

 leaves, with simple or sparingly stellate spreading hairs. Leaves an inch or less in breadth, none of them 

 approaching to hastate ; the uppermost 5-parted. Involucel of few, setaceous bracteoles, shorter than the 

 5-cleft calyx. Petals light yellow, narrowly obovate, 4 or 5 hnes long. Column rather shorter than the 

 petals, bearing less than a dozen anthers. Styles little exserted. Capsule 3 lines wide, loculicidal, acutely 

 carinate at the dehiscent sutures. 



Two new United States species of Kosteletzkya, gathered by Rugel along the Manate River, in South- 

 ern Florida, are distributed, one. No. 103, under the name of '■'■ HiLiscus {Penlaspermum) smilacifolius, 

 Shuttleworth, n. sp." ; the other. No. 102, as " Hibiscus {Penlaspermum) aUheafolius, Shuttleworth, n. sp." 



The Fugosia of Drummond's third Texan collection. No. 42 (not 44), mentioned by Bentham in Hook. 

 Jour. Bot. A. p. 120, maybe thus characterized, from the complete specimens which exist in the Hookerian 

 herbarium : — 



Fdgosia Drummondii (sp. nov.) : glabrata ; caulibus e radice perenni decumbentibus angulatis ; foliis 

 ovalibus e basi obtusa 5-7-nervatis grosse et inrequaliter dentatis, dentibus mucronatis; involucello 7-9- 

 phyllo, phyllis linearibus calyce profunde 5-fido paulo breviore ; stigmatibus 4-5 adglutinatis ; capsula 

 subglobosa calycem eequante glabra 4-5-loculari, loculis dispermis ; seminibus breviter Januginosis. — 

 Gonzales, Texas, Brummond. — This has not been gathered, so far as I am aware, by any other collector 

 in Texas. But in the Hookerian herbarium there is a fragment of the same or a closely allied species from 

 South Brazil. The leaves are from one to two inches in length, on rather long petioles. The corolla is 

 sulphur-color, or pale yellow, more than an inch in diameter. 



