Draperia. HTDROPHTLLACE.E. .",|i:, 



more or less hirsute ; the leaves opposite or the uppermost alternate, once to thrice 

 pinnatihd. Flowers small, on solitary simple peduncles iu the forks, or bractless 

 and loosely racemose at the summit of the branches : corolla white or whitish. — 

 (The following are all the species known, excepting the Eastern and original 

 E. Xyctelea, Linn.) 



§ 1. Leaves once pinnately parted: ovules only 4 and all enclosed in the dilated invest- 

 ing placenta in the manner of the tribe : seeds globose, reticulated. — Ellisia 

 proper. 



1. E. membranacea, Benth. Sparsely beset with some short and rigid bristly 

 hairs, otherwise glabrous : stems a foot or so in length, weak, soon prostrate : 

 leaves pinnately divided into 3 to 9 linear very obtuse and mostly entire divis- 

 ions; the petiole wing-margined: flowers mainly racemose on a terminal pedun- 

 cle : calyx-lobes oblong or at length obovate, very obtuse, rather shorter than the 

 open campanulate corolla, not exceeding the 1 - 2-seeded capsule. 



Shady and damp places, from the lower part of the valley of the Sacramento to San Diego. 

 Corolla only -1 lines in diameter. Ovary bearing only a few scattered and very stout subulate 

 bristles. 



§ 2. Leaves mainly twice or thrice pinnatifid: ovules 8, viz. a pair on the back as 

 well as on the front of earl, placenta: seeds oblong-oval, dissimilar, usually two 

 remaining cona aled after dehiscence. — Euckypta. (Eucrypla, Xutt.) 



2. E. chiysanthemifolia, Benth. Somewhat hirsute and pubescent: stem a 

 foot or two high, erect, paniculately branched: leaves Tansy-like, dissected into 

 very many small and short divisions : flowers all loosely racemose : calyx-lobes ob- 

 long or broadly oval, shorter than the open-campanulate corolla, about equalling the 

 small capsule, which is generally 6-seeded : the mostly 4- ordinary seeds enclosed 

 between the placentae rugose-tuberculate and free in dehiscence; while between each 

 placenta and the valve (which it exactly lines and is conformed to) is concealed 

 a single meniscoidal and smooth seed : — whence Xuttall's name. — Eucrypta j>-ini- 

 culata & E. foliosa, Xutt. PI. (Iamb. 1 59. Phacelia micraniha, var. (!) bipinnatifida, 

 Ton-, in Hot. Ives Colorado Exped. 21. 



Shady grounds, not uncommon from Bay of San Francisco to San Piego. Corolla and the 

 stellate-spreading fruiting calyx about 3 lies in diameter, sometimes smaller. There are two 

 forms, one with obtuse lobes to the leaves, broader calyx-lobes obovate in fruit, and corolla barely 

 exceeding the calyx ; the other with ai-utish lubes to the leaves, ami oblong ea)\ x-lobes consider- 

 ably shorter than th rolla. But they run tog, -her, and do not severally accord with the char- 

 acters of Nuttall's two species. 



4. DRAPERIA, Torr. 



Calyx 5-parted to the base; the divisions or sepals filiform-linear. Corolla tubu- 

 lar-funnelform, with 5 short lobes; tube within destitute of appendages. Stamens 

 unequal in Length, and unequally inserted low down on the tube of the corolla, in- 

 cluded. Ovary strictly 2-celled, with a pair of ovules pendulous from near the 

 summit of each cell, style long and filiform, 2-clei't at apex. Capsule globose, 

 somewhat didymous, membranaceous; the thin half partition adhering to the middle 

 of each valve, mostly without the thin placental portion, which separates with the 

 l seeds. These are oval, angled, and with a sinoothish close coat. — A single 

 s] ies, | uliar to < 'alifomia. 



1. D. systyla, Torr. A low, diffusely spreading, grayish silky-hirsute, pi 

 nial herb : the -lender stems obscurely woody at the base : leaves all opposite, ovate, 

 entire, slender-petioled : flowers crowded in the scorpioid spikes of a pedunculat 



