252 DESCRIPTION OF NEW SPECIES 



are smooth and deep green, from twelve to eighteen inches long and deeply 

 pinnatifid; the petioles beset with spinulose tubercles; leaflets .lanceolate, 

 dentate, acuminate, about four to six inches long. Flowers in a short, fastigiate 

 raceme, white, externally striped with dark reddish purple; the corolla falcate, 

 about two and a half inches long, and the segments long and linear. Filaments 

 connate to the summit, free at the base of the anthers; anthers with long, pen- 

 cillate tufts of white coarse hairs. Berry turbinate; the seed even and lenti- 

 cular, pale brown, very similar to that of Clermontia. It flowers in the winter 

 season, and is indeed a splendid plant. 



Tribe II. Clintonie^, (Presl. Decand.) 

 Clintonia elegans; Obs. — This, like all the other species, is subaquatic, grow- 

 ing on the margins of perennial ponds : in such situations I found it abundant, 

 near the outlet of the Wahlamet, where it appeared to be biennial or peren- 

 nial, beginning to flower in April. The taste of the plant is nearly as 

 sweet as that of young lettuce, and it is greedily cropped by deer and other 

 animals. The sap is no ways milky. 



Clintonia corymhosa; Hab. With the preceding, to which it is nearly allied. 

 The lower lip presents a broad, nearly white centre. The capsule is some- 

 times almost smooth; the petiole one and a half inches long. The flower and 

 its calyx green. Flower one and a half inches long. 



SC^VOLA. (Linn^us.) 



Sc^voLA ^Plumerioides; shrubby; axills sericeously bearded; leaves fastigiate, 

 shortly petiolate, obovate-oblong, obtuse, entire and very smooth, subcoria- 

 ceous and attenuated at the base; peduncles pubescent, one or two-flowered, 

 very short; bractes minute; limb of the calyx five-parted ; corolla bearded 

 within, the segments smooth and ciliate. 



Hab. Near the shores of the Island of Atooi. A stout shrub sending up numerous brandies, 

 ■which, as in Plumeria, present leaves only at the extremities. These are somewhat fleshy, four 

 or five inches long and about one and a half wide, rounded at the summit, below attenuated, but 

 scarcely petiolate. The axills with a long silky pubescence. Flowers small, white, or pedicels 

 of less than half an inch in length, Divisions of liie calyx lanceolate, acute, Indusium of the 

 stigma hairy and bearded. Nut scarcely mote than one-seeded. Berry allied, apparently, (o 6'. 

 monlanu, but with a different inflorescence. 



