150 CRl < M'Ui.i. 



fililbrm free funiculi, forming a single row in each cell, as 

 broad as the partition, oblaug, somewhat compressed, not 

 margined. Cotyledons narrowly oblong, thickish, plane, 

 sometimes parallel with the placenta and incumbent on the 

 ascending radicle, which rests on the middle of one of 

 them, or is exactly dorsal, sometimes oblique and at the 

 upper part parallel with the partition, so as there to be nearly 

 or quite accumbent. 



Herbs, entirely glabrous, with annual fibrous roots, and 

 slender upright and branching stems, bearing numerous spat- 

 ulate-oblong or ovate-oblong entire leaves, which are nearly 

 sessile or partly clasping, and handsome rose-purple or white 

 flowers in abbreviated umbel-like racemes, the rachis of 

 which scarcely elongates in fruit ; the slender pods recurved- 

 spreading or pendulous. Bracts none. 



Etymology. Dedicated by Nuttall to Mr. N. A. Ware, who collected 

 one species in Florida. 



Geographical Distribution. A genus of two closely allied species of 

 Georgia and Florida, allied to Stanleya, and especially to Thelypodium, Endl. 

 (Pachypodiuin, Nutt.), with which, as our figures show, it frequently ac- 

 cords in having the cotyledons oblique, so as to become almost accumbent. 



PLATE G6. Warea cuneifolia, Nutt.; — summit of a stem in flower 

 and in young fruit ; of the natural size. (Georgia, Dr. Wray.) 



1. Diagram of a flower ; the petals convolute in aestivation. 



2. ^Estivation of the corolla of a different flower ; one petal external. 



3. A flower, enlarged. 



4. A sepal, inside view ; and 5, a petal, enlarged. 



6. Stamens, pistil, and receptacle, equally enlarged. 



7. A silique, transversely divided above the base, with its stipe, torus, and 



part of the pedicel ; enlarged. 



8. Replum, from the base of the silique, enlarged ; the two lower seeds 



cut across, showing the cotyledons accumbent at the section in the 

 lowest, and very oblique in the middle one. 



9. Tissue from the edge of the partition, highly magnified. 



10. A magnified seed thrice divided, to show the position of the radicle 

 and the cotyledons at various points ; namely, the radicle dorsal 

 where it joins the cotyledons, and rimal at the summit. 



