180 NEW SPECIES 



what tender and diaphanous, plano-convex, 12 to 

 18 inches long, branching from the base and decum- 

 bent, possessing a tenaceous and elastic centre. 

 Leaves alternate, pinnatifid, somewhat succulent, 

 and on the upper surface a little scabrous, seg 

 ments 5 or 6 pair, subovate, or lanceolate, acute, 

 partly falcate, and presenting a few incisions ; petiole 

 ciliated, its internal base lanuginous. Peduncles one- 

 flowered, terete, very long, sometimes near upon a 

 span, and attenuated towards their extremities, at 

 first remote, and coming out opposite the leaves, but 

 at length, as the period of inflorescence advances, ap- 

 proximating into a kind of raceme, which is prima- 

 rily curved. Calix campanulate, ten-cleft, the seg- 

 ments ovate and acute, ciliate, the larger connivent 

 and erect, the exterior much smaller and reflected. 

 Corolla pelviform-campanulate, flax flower blue, the 

 lobes oval and naked, obliquely emarginated, before 

 expansion convolute, the exterior base producing 10 

 purple spots, the internal base furnished with ^vt 

 foveolate nectariferous cavities, with tomentose mar- 

 gins, bearing the stamina. Stamina about half the 

 length of the corolla, the filaments filiform and 

 smooth ; anthers sagitate- oblong, brownish-yellow. 

 Style one, bifid, below hirsute. Capsule oval, co- 

 vered by the connivent calix, somewhat hirsute, one- 

 celled, four-seeded, the seeds by pairs alternately 

 immersed in a fleshy succulent receptacle occupying 

 the whole cavity of the capsule. 



Hab. In the shady woods of Cedar prairie, ten 

 miles from Fort Smith, and from thence in similar 



