258 BOTAISTY. 



long ; seeds 6-8, over i" long, transversely rugose and pitted.— In the lower 

 Humboldt and Reese River Valleys, Nevada ; 4-5,000 feet altitude ; May- 

 July. It is also the Eutoca aretioides of Ives' Report, collected on the Flax 

 River in Northern Arizona. Apparently resembling Millitzia lutea, DC, 

 found by Tolmie in Eastern Oregon or Southern Idaho, which differs, accord- 

 ing to the description, in being scabrous-pubescent, the linear sepals 3" long, 

 the corolla-tube pilose externally, the disk none, (or more probably narrow,) 

 and the ovary also pilose. (886.) 



Teicaedia^ Watsoni, Torr. Stems several from a perennial caudex, 

 6-8' high, simple, pilose with white webby hairs ; leaves lanceolate, acutish, 

 pubescent, the radical ones 1-2' long, attenuate into a long petiole, the cau- 

 line 4-1' in length, sessile or short-petioled ; racemes axillary and terminal, 

 6-10-flowered ; pedicels slender, mostly nodding; calyx glabrous, from 2" 

 becoming 1' long, the outer three sepals deeply cordate, subchartaceous, 

 very strongly veined, the inner linear ones a little shorter ; corolla purplish, 

 3" deep, the lobes rounded, spreading ; style twice longer than the ovary ; 

 capsule 3" long ; seeds 1" in length, slightly roughened. — A plant of solitary 

 habit and rare. The mature capsule in every case examined was compressed 

 parallel with the placentae, which in some cases remained united a consider- 

 able part of their length. The young ovary rather indicates compression 

 in the other direction. Found on foot-hills of Truckee Pass and the Trinity 

 Mountains, Western Nevada ; 4-4,500 feet altitude ; May. Plate XXIV. 

 Fig. 1. A plant of the natural size, but incorrectly showing the fruiting 

 pedicels erect instead of nodding. Fig. 2. A flower; magnified four diam- 

 eters. Fig. 3. The same, laid open. Fig. 4. A fruiting calyx, natural 

 size, with two of the outer sepals displaced. Fig. 5. A half-capsule, after 

 dehiscence ; enlarged two diameters. Fig. 6. A transverse section ; enlarged 

 four diameters. Figs. 7 and 8. A seed, with the albumen and embryo ; en- 

 larged eight diameters. Fig. 9. A portion of the corolla, showing the inser- 

 tion of the stamens and position of the appendages. (887.) 



> TEICAEDIA, ToKE. Calyx 5-parted, becoming enlarged and conspicuous in fruit, three of the 

 sepals exterior, bractlike, broad-cordate and strongly reticulate-veined, the two others linear. Corolla 

 broad-campanulate, slightly constricted at the throat, 5-cleft, appendaged near the base with ton distinct 

 narrow folds, deciduous. Disk none. Stamens included, inserted very near the base of the Corolla, the 

 niaments rather slender and anthers eUiptical. Ovary ovate, glabrous, 2-oelled ; ovules 8, pendulous. 

 Styles united to the middle ; stigmas capitollate. Capsule ovate, acuminate with the persistent base of 

 the style, compressed, loculioidal, imperfectly 2-oelled, the plaoentfe separating iu the axis and but 

 slightly thickened on the edges. Seeds about 8, oblong, compressed, pendent; embrvo shorter than the 

 copious horny albumen.— A low perennial herb, with entire .ilternate leaves and "loose few-flowered 

 bractless subcicrinate racemes. 



