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are an inch or more across when expanded, with lanceo- 

 late-oblong calyx-lobes, a campanulate corolla slightly 

 villose on the inner surface, with five, rounded, nearly 

 equal lobes, four included stamens and an emarginate 

 stigma. The fruit is a two-valved capsule. 



Leucophy/lum Texanum* was discovered many years ago 



taken in hand, however, a few years ago by Mr. P. J. 

 Berckmans, of Augusta, Georgia, in whose garden it 

 flowered during the past summer for the first time prob- 

 ably in cultivation ; and it is from a specimen of one of 

 the cultivated plants that Mr. Faxon has made the drawing 

 which is reproduced in our illustration. 



Fig. 63. — Leucophyllum Texanum. — See page 48S. 



by the Swiss botanist, Berlandier, a pupil and protege of the 

 elder De Candolle, who early emigrated to Matamoras and 

 first explored the flora of the valley of the lower Rio 

 Grande and of the Mexican Sierra Madre. In spite of its 

 beauty it long escaped the attention of cultivators. It was 



*I. — Benthamin DeCandolle's "Prod.,' 

 15 ; " Syn. Fl. N. Am.," ii., 250. 



x., 344. — Gray, " Bot. Mex. Bound. Surv. 



Leucophyllum Texanum, although, accordingto Mr. Berck- 

 mans, it is difficult to propagate, is so ornamental in foliage 

 and in flower that it will certainly become a popular gar- 

 den plant wherever the climate is sufficiently dry and warm 

 for its successful cultivation. A more interesting American 

 plant has not flowered for the first time this year in any 

 garden. C. S. S. 



