472 HYDROPHYLLACEAE conanthus 



ROMANZOFFIA 



entire or nearly so, 2-5 inches long, tapering into a petiole of equal length : 

 peduncles slender, loosely and racemosely 3-7 flowered, the earliest ones 

 scapiform : pedicels spreading : corolla nearly white, 5-cleft, short-campan- 

 ulate, about half as' long as the linear obscurely spatulate calyx-lobes and 

 of the ovoid very blunt capsule, persistent, its internal appendages not 

 manifest: style very short, at length deciduous: capsule 8-10-seeded. 

 Southeastern Oregon to Nevada. 



5 CONANTHUS Torr. Watson Bot. King 356. 

 Low annuals with entire leaves and solitary flowers in the forks 

 of leafy branches. Calyx 5-parted, the sinuses naked and the 

 lobes not enlarged in fruit. Corolla tubular- funnel form, with a 

 broad, 5-lobed limb, and no appendages within. Stamens in- 

 cluded, unequal and unequally inserted on the middle of the co- 

 rolla-tube. Nectary or disk none. Ovary 3-celled, rather many- 

 ovuled. Style 2-lobed at the summit. Capsule rounded-ovate 

 10-20-seeded. Seeds ovate or oblong, smooth. 



C. aretioides Watson Bot. King 256. Hispid-hirsute throughout: 

 small and depressed winter annual 2-3 inches high, repeatedly forked 

 from the very base, forming mats or tufts : leaves linear-spatulate, nar- 

 rowed below to a petiole : flowers comparatively large and numerous, 

 sessile in the forks, fully 6 lines long: calyx-filiform-linear, hispid with 

 long spreading hairs : corolla purple, funnelform with rather long nar- 

 row tube and ample limb : style 2-lobed at the summit : ovules about 20 : 

 seeds usually fewer, the testa thin and translucent, smooth or in age 

 sparsely and obscurely excavated. Southeastern Oregon to Nevada, 

 Arizona and California. 



6 ROMANZOFFIA Cham, in Hor. Phys. Berol. 71, t. 14. 



Perennial herbs with alternate or chiefly radical, round, reni- 

 form or cordate, crenately lobed, long-petioled leaves, and showy 

 flowers in loose racemes or somewhat paniculate. Sepals or ca- 

 lyx-lobes all alike. Corolla funnelform or almost campanulate: 

 the stamens inserted on the base of its tube, unequal. Style and 

 small stigma entire. Inflorescence scapiform, loosely racemose. 

 Ovary 2-celled or nearly so, the placentae narrowly linear. Cap- 

 sule oblong, retuse, many-seeded. Seeds oval, the testa alveo- 

 late-reticulated. 



R. Sitchensis Bongard Veg. Sitk. 41 t. 4. Slightly and sparsely pu- 

 bescent or glabrate : stems slender, scape-like, spreading or ascending, 4-10 

 inches long: leaves round reniform, 3-7 lobed, an inch or less in diameter, 

 on slender petioles 1-4 inches long, the bases of which often enlarge and 

 become bulblets 1 flowers white, in a loose terminal raceme : pedicels fili- 

 form, becoming an inch or more long: calyx-lobes very glabrous, subu- 

 late, about 2 lines long: corolla funnelform, 6-8 lines long, 5-lobed, the 

 broad lobes rounded at the summit : style long and slender : capsule 

 longer than the calyx. On wet banks, California to Alaska west of the 

 Cascade Mbuntains. 



7 CAPNOREA Raf. Fl. Tellur. iii, 75. 



HESPEROCHIRON Watson. 



Low stemless perennials with entire spatulate or oblong leaves 



on mostly elongated margined petioles crowning the caudex or 



root-stock, and from their axils sending up naked 1-flowered 



