158 MR. NUTTALL'S DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW 



Hab. On the borders of the Platte, and hills near Scott's Bluffs. Flowering in 

 May. (Nuttall.) 



EUTOCA. 



E. *albiflora. O- Glandularly pilose and viscid; stem erect and branching; leaves broad-ovate, shortly 

 petiolate, subcordate, angularly biserrate ; racemes curved, elongated, many-flowered, calyx segments 

 spathulate-iinear, obtuse ; corolla not much longer than the calyx ; capsule many-seeded. 



In many respects this species resembles E. viscida, except that the flower is more 

 than twice as large and of a deep blue ; the serratures and side of the leaves are also 

 different. The pubescence is terminated with black glands, and the seeds are 

 rugose, the capsule ovate, with, a short style and stigma. 



Hab. Santa Barbara, Upper California. 



E. *SPEciosA. O- Stem erect and simple; leaves broad-ovate, subcordate, doubly serrate, almost lobed, 

 beneath strongly nerved, and, as well as the stem and calyx, hispid and viscidly glandular; racemes at 

 the summit of the stem, several, circinate, not elongated; flowers on short pedicels ; segments of the 

 calyx spathulate linear ; capsule with more than fifty roundish, very rugose seeds. 



Nearly allied to E. grandijlora, the flowers being equally large and showy, of a 

 fine blue. Stem two to three feet high, very si out ; the leaves large, almost lobed on 

 the margin ; style and stigmas very long, filaments hairy on the lower part. The 

 viscid pubescence is black, and of a heavy resinous rather disagreeable smell, almost 

 like that of Rue. It communicates an almost indelible stain to clothing. 



Hab. Near St. Diego, Upper California. (Nuttall.) 



*EUCRYPTA.t 



Calyx five-parted, without external appendages; lobes oval or ovate. Corolla 

 tubular campanulate, half five-cleft, deciduous, without internal appendages; the 

 lobes rounded ; the sestivation with three segments exterior and two interior. 

 Stamens five, equal, arising from the base of the corolla, smooth, somewhat exserted ; 

 anthers small and oval, nectary none. Ovary depressed, globose, one-celled; 

 placentas two, free, externally septiferous, each with four dissimilar ovules. Style 

 elongated, very shortly bifid. Stigmas minute. Capsule two-valved, dividing 

 parallel with the placenta, presenting four roundish, rugose seeds ; concealed in the 

 adnate parietes, as it were, of each of these valves are (when perfect) two other 

 seeds, which are even and elliptic ! separated from the other seeds by a perfect 

 membranaceous partition, parallel with the deep concavity of the valves, and each of 

 these partitions is again divided internally by a proper transverse septum ; so that the 

 capsule is in fact four-celled, with closed partitions, and the division of the adnate 



t So called in allusion to the concealed cells of the capsule. 



