Whipplea. SAXIFRAGACEiE. 203 



oblong-ovate, 2 to 4 inches long, mostly serrate with some coarse acute teeth : 

 flowers in loose clusters which are leafy at base : petals from three fourths to an 

 inch long: styles mostly distinct to the middle: stigmas more or less dilated: calyx- 

 lobes twice the length of the tube. — Bot. Reg. xxv. t. 32. 



Shaded banks of streams in the Coast Ranges, Mendocino and Humboldt counties (Kcllogrj, 

 Bolandcr), north to Washington Territory. 



11. CARPENTERIA, Torr. 



Characters of Philadelphus, except that the calyx is 5-parted, its very short tube 

 adnate only to the base of the ovary and the ovate-conical capsule, which is pointed 

 with the undivided persistent style: a thin loculicidally 5-valved epicarp separates 

 from the body of the capsule, which splits septicidally into 5 broad valves, each 

 pointed with its portion of the style, and tardily if at all dividing down the dorsal 

 suture. — A single insufficiently known species, named in memory of the late Prof. 

 Carpenter of Louisiana. 



1. C. Californica, Torr. Shrub, apparently tall, with light-colored ami lami- 

 nated loose bark, mainly glabrous : leaves broadly lanceolate, entire, thickish, per- 

 haps persistent, 2 or 3 inches long, pinnately veined, whitened beneath with a 

 minute and close pubescence, tapering into a petiole: peduncles long and naked, 

 terminal and from the upper axils: seeds oblong, with a short and obtuse appendage 

 at both ends. — PI. Fremont, in Smiths. Contrib. vi. 12, t. 7. 



Sierra Nevada, probably on the head-waters of the San Joaquin, Franmtf,. As yet known in 

 fruit only; with some vestiges of flowers, from which Dr. Torrey ascertained that there were 

 orbicular petals, and numerous stamens with filiform filaments: also that the parts of the calyx 

 and capsule are sometimes o* or 7. 



12. WHIPPLEA, Torr. 



Calyx 5-cleft ; the tube adnate to the lower part of tho ovary: the lobes thin and 

 petaloid (white or whitish). Petals 5, ovate or oblong with contracted base. 

 Stamens 10 (rarely 8 or 12): filaments subulate or lanceolate: anthers short, 2-celled. 

 Ovary 3 — 5-celled, with a single suspended ovule in each coll. Styles distinct, 

 subulate: stigmas introrse. Capsule septicidally dehiscent into •"> to 5 cartilaginous 

 1-seeded portions, which open down the ventral suture only. Seed oblong, with 

 a close coat. — Small and low diffuse shrubs, pubescent with simple hairs; with 

 opposite slightly petioled and somewhat o ribbed leaves, no stipules, and small 

 white cymose-clu tered flowers: peduncle terminal, naked. Parts of the bio om 

 occasionally 4 or 6. 



This interesting genus comma rates the late Lieut (afterwards General) Whipple, tie' leader 



of the survey iii which tin- < 'alifornian species was discovered. 



W. I' i.MiiAsis, Watson, the s 1 species, i- an upright and much-branched little shrub: 



leaves thickish, from a quarter to half an inch long, elliptical or Linear-oblong, very obtuse, en- 

 tire : cyme rather short-pcduncled, " 7-flowered : calyx-tube olongated-tnrbinate, adnate to the 

 lower ball' of the cylindraceous 3-coUed capsule : styles :'■, persistent : seed cylindrical : bud- 

 si airs ailky-villous. S. Utah near Kaiiab, Mrs. Thompson, Capt, Bishop. .May possibly reuch 

 tin- borders of ( !alifornia. 



I. W. modesta, Torr. Stems slender, spreading or trailing: leaves membra 

 us, ovate or oval, obtusely few-toothed or sometimes entire, an inch or less 



long: peduncle slender, bearing a small and close few-flowered cluster : tl 



hardly 2 lines long: calyx-tube almost hemispherical, adnate to the base of the 

 4-eelled (sometimes 3-5-colled) ovaij and globular capsule : styles at length decid- 

 uous : seed oblong. Pacif. b'. Rep. iv. 90, I. 7. 



