linearia, wstivatione subdistantia; 3 inte- 
riora multo latiora, navicularia, dorso cris- 
tato-carinata, estivatione et post anthesin 
imbricata, nunquam contorta. Receptacu- 
Discus inconspicuus. 
3, stipitis apice inserta, cum sepalis inte- 
rioribus alternantia, persistentia,subaccres- 
centia, angusta, subunguiculata. Stamina 
3, stipitis apice inserta! petalis anteposita, 
persistentia; filamenta libera, capillaria, 
anthere minime, basi affixe, innate, obre- 
niformes ; connectivo angustissimo. Ova- 
rium minimum, liberum, subglobosum, 
incomplete 3-loculare, dissepimenta ex 
endocarpio orta, usque ad cavitatis axin 
fere producta ; placente 3, biovulate, te- 
nues, subrotunde, ovarii diametro sube- 
quilate, inter se liber, media linea dorsali 
dissepimenti oppositi margini anteriori ad- 
nate, utrinque recurve; funiculi breves, 
adscendentes, basi faciei posterioris pla- 
centarum utrinque ad angulum centralem, 
solitares ; ovula orthotropa (primina, se- 
cundina, et nuclea haud &gre dignoscen- 
dis), arrecta, oblonga, basi affixa. Stylus 
eciduus, brevis, filiformis, rectus, erectus. 
vela 3, capillaceo-multipartita. Cap- 
c calyce teota, cartilaginea, obscure pel- 
ida breve stipulata, incomplete 3-locu- 
laris, ab apice ad basin septifrago-bivalvis, 
perma, valve sepalis interioribus disse- 
Pimentisque opposite, cymbæformes, con- 
mventes, persistentes; endocarpio a mæ- 
Socarpio haud soluto; dissepimenta carti- 
laginea, bipartibilia, ante dehiscentiam 
Sabai Suo posteriori valvarum axi adna- 
margine quidem anteriori ab anteposita 
nta nunquam soluto ; placente 8, val- 
Subisometræ, dispermæ, subcentrales, 
is tum tenue, crustaceum, 
“topylus terminalis, vix conspicuus, Ai- 
DESCRIPTION OF SOME NEW CISTACEZ. 
lum cum chalaza in areolam parvam basi- 
larem confluens; perispermium corneum ; 
embryo axilis, antitropus, rectilineus, pe- 
rispermio subequilongus ; cotyledones pla- 
niuscule, subfoliacee, elliptic; semini 
fere equilate ; radicula recta, supera, cy- 
lindrica, obtusa, cotyledonibus subequi- 
longa.—Suffrutex (Americanus) ramosis- 
simus. Folia sparsa (raro subopposita, v. 
gemina) exstipulata, breve petiolata, inte- 
gerrima. Pedicelli supra axillares, secus 
ramulorum apicem in racemos unilatera- 
les dispositi ; fructiferi subdeflexi v. diva- 
ricati. Flores minimi 
This genus differs strikingly from Le- 
chea by the dehiscence of its capsule, the 
dissepiments of which break off from the 
valves, but do not lose their adherence 
with their placentas, these, besides, are 
cartilaginous and dispermous, not thinly 
crustaceous and monospermous as in Le- 
chea ; the insertion of the petals at the 
base, instead of the apex of the thecapho- 
rum, may be considered as an additional 
character. The following is the only spe- 
cies I am acquainted with. 
LECHIDIUM DRUMMONDII. (nob.) 
Root slender, ligneous, apparently creep- 
ing. Stems suffrutescent, solitary or sub- 
younger virgate, leafy, sparingly pubes- 
cent; the older destitute of leaves and 
glabrous. Branches very slender, alter- 
nate, somewhat divaricated; more or less 
paniculate, sparingly clothed with leaves, 
covered with short whitish appressed sca- 
brous hairs. Ramules filiform. Leaves 
alternate (rarely subopposite or geminate) 
exstipulate, very entire, minute (those of 
the stems and branches three to seven lines 
long, one-sixth to one-third of a line broad; 
the uppermost of the floriferous ramules 
reduced to very minute filiform bracteoles), 
exactly linear, one-nerved, supported on a 
very short filiform petiole; the older gla- 
brous or nearly so; the younger more or 
less clothed with short, bristly, decumbent, 
