198 HAXIFRAGACE^. leptaxis. 



TEI.LIMA. 



H. violacea Wheelock Bull Torr. Club xxiii, 71. Suksdorfia violacea 

 Gray, \iscid-pubescent throughout: stems slender, 6-10 inches high, 

 from a small bulb-like caudex which is covered with bulblets that are 

 borne in the axils of the radical leaves: lower leaves round-cordate, cren- 

 ately lobed and toothed, on slender petioles with scarious dilated base, 

 upper ones obovate, 3-5-lobed, on short petioles with foliaceous stipular 

 base: petals violet, entire or sometimes 2-3-lobed, spatulate, attenuate 

 below to a long claw, 5-() lines long, much longer than the acuminate at 

 length connivent lobes of the calyx: capsule oblong; carpels united to 

 near the top, the short beaks diverging : seeds oblong, with a close light- 

 colored testa. On moss-covered rocks, along the C olumhia river near 

 Viento Oregon and on the oppositeside of the river near the mouth of the 

 White Ijalnion river. 



9 LEPTAXIS Raf. Fl. Tel. ii. 75. 



TOLMIEA T. cfe a. Fl. i,- tSS; nut Hook. 



Perennial herbs with cordate leaves on long petioles bearing a 

 bud at the base of the blade, and simple stems with long ebrac- 

 teate racemes of purple flowers on short pedicels. Calyx cylin- 

 drical, free from the ovary, unequally 4-cleft. the tube split down 

 the lower side nnd gibbous at base, imbricate in the bud. Petals 

 4, filiform, entire, inserte.l between the lobes of the calyx, per- 

 sistent. Stamens ;-;, scarcely exserted, inserted into the throat of 

 the calyx opposite the three larger lobes: filaments subulate, 

 unequal: anthers, reniform, 2-celled, the cells confluent at the 

 apex. Ovary stipitate at base, 1-celled, with two parietal placen- 

 tae; stigma obtuse. Capsule 1-celled, many-seeded, 2-valved at 

 the apex, the valves equal. Seeds small, globose, muricate-hispid. 



L. Menziesii Baf. 1. c. Jfi. Tolmiea Menziesii T. it- G. Hispid-pubescent 

 throughout: stems clustered, 1-3 feet high, from a creeping branched 

 caudex : leaves cordate, acute, obscurely lobed and repandly cuspidate- 

 toothed, oiliate, 1-4 inches long, the lower on long petioles, the upper ones 

 with petioles successively shorter until they become sessile bracts : racemes 

 many-rtowered, elongated; calyx cylindraceous, purple-veined, the upper 

 lolits oblong, obtuse, the lower one narrow, acuminate, shorter; petals 

 brown, filiform, somewhat dilated in the middle, recurved; filaments sub- 

 ulate, the upper one inserted lower down on the tube of the calyx than 

 the other 2: capsule oblong, 2-valved, the valves beaked with the indur- 

 ated styles, the valves spreading in age. Common along mountain streams 

 from Brit. Columbia to L'aliforuia. 



10 TELLIMA E. P.r. App. Frankl. Journ. 765. 



Perennial herbs with roundish-cordate leaves on petioles with 

 dihited and somewhat stipuliform base and rather large flowers 

 ill elongated simple somewhat spicate racemes. Calyx campanu- 

 late, obconic and coherent with the ovary at base, free and in- 

 flated above, 5-toothed, valvate in the bud. Petals 5, inserted in 

 the throat of the calyx, laciniate-pinnatifid, deciduous. Stam- 

 ens 5 or 10, inserted <ni the tube of the calyx; anthers 2-celled, 

 ovate. Styles 2, short and distinct; stigmas capitate, obscurely 

 3-lobed. Capsule 1-celled with 2 parietal many-seeded placentas, 

 2-beaked, opening between the beaks. Seeds horizontal. 



