32 RUBIACE.E, Kelloggia. 



Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. vi. 539, & Bot. Calif, i. 282. — Single species : most allied 

 to Gahqjliia of S. Africa. 



°* K. galioides, Tokr. 1. u. Slender and glabrous or puberiilent perennial, a span to a foot 

 high, with foliage of a [Toustonia (leaves only opposite, lanceolate, sessile, with small and 

 entire or 2-(lentate interposed stipules), fruit and paniculate inflorescence of a Galium, and 

 corolla (of Asperula) white or pinkish, 2 or 3 lines long, the lobes equalling or shorter than 

 tlie tube. — Mountain wooils, mostly under coniferous trees, .Sierra Nevada, California (first 

 coll. by Bri'ioer and Torre u), south to mountains of Arizona, east to Utah, and north to Wash- 

 ington Terr, and N. W. Wyoming. 



21. MITRACARPUS, Zuccarini. (MtVpa, a girdle or head-band, evi- 

 dently taken in the sense of mitre, and Kapmg, fruit.) — Low annuals or per- 

 ennials (American and one or two African) ; with the habit of Sperniucoce, and 

 with small white flowers. — Zucc. in Roem. & Schult. Syst. Mimt. iii. 210, name 

 given only in the accusative case, " Mitracarpum," in index rightly under the 

 nominative " iMitracarpus." Mistaken for a nominative, we have the ungram- 

 matical Mitracarpnm, by Cham. & Schlecht, followed by A. Rich., DC, Endl., 

 Benth. & Hook., and wrongly corrected by Bentli. Bot. Sulph. and Gray, PI. 

 Wright., into Mitracarpimn. (Vide Proc. Am. Acad. xix. 77.) Skiurospermum. 

 Thonning in Schum. PI. Guin. 73, is of same date (1827). 



M. breviflorus, Gray. Annual, a sp.an or two high, nearly glabrous and smooth, bearing 

 2 or 3 axillary verticillastrate-capitate clusters and a terminal one : leaves lanceolate, about 

 inch long : stipules with few setiform ajjpendages : two larger calyx-lobes lanceolate-subu- 

 late, longer than tube, equalling or surpassing the small (barely line long) glabrous white 

 corolla; intermediate ones small and dentiform, hyaline. — PI. 'Wriuht. ii. 68; Rothr. in 

 ^\'heeler Eep. vi. 137.— Ravines and hillsides, S. Arizona, \Vri(ilil,'Tliarher, liothrock, &c. 

 {Adj. Mex., Bcrlanrlier, &c.) 



M. lixeAris, Benth. Bot. Sulph., of Lower California, also coll. by Xmiliis, has narrow leaves, 

 and tube of corolla at least twice the length of the calyx. 



22. RICHARDIA, Houst., L. (Dr. H. Richardson of London, father of 

 Richard Richardsmi, the correspondent of Gronovius, ifcc. See Smith's Corr. 

 Linnffius and other Naturalists, ii. 173.) — Hispid or hirsute perennials or annu^ 

 als, natives of Tropical America; with broadish subsessile leaves, setiferous 

 stipules, and whitish flowers ; these mostly in a terminal capitate cluster, involu- 

 crate by the one or two uppermost pairs of leaves. — Gen. PI. ed. 1, 100 ■' Ga=rtn 

 Fruct. t. 25 ; Ruiz & Pav. Fl. Per. ct Chil. t. 279 ; Hiern in Fl. Trop.' Atl-. ni 

 242. Richardsonia, Kunth in Mem. Mus. Par. iv. 430, & HBK. Nov. Gen. & 

 Spec. iii. 350, t. 279 : but it appears that this, wliich correctlv indicates the 

 naturalist to whom the genus was dedicated, cannot be allo«-ed to supersede the 

 original name, faulty as it is in this respect. 



-R. scAbka, L. Loosely branching and spreading: leaves ovate to lanceolate-ol.bme- (inch or 

 two m length), roughish: .stipules with rather few setiform appenda-cs : glnmcrules of 

 flowers and frmt depressed : comlla 2 or 3 lin..s long. _ Spe... i. 330. U: lulo.a, Ruiz & Pav 

 1. c. ; HBK. 1. c. hidm-dsoma scnbra, St. llil. I'l. Ts. Br.as. S, t. S ■ DC Prodr iv Mr ■ 

 Chapm.Fl, ed, 2, Suppl G24. -Low or sandy gronnds, almndautlv naturalized in the'low 

 country S.Caruhna to Texas, called il,-.nca„ Clover in .\labama, ami relished bv cattle • the 

 root in S. Amcma used as an emetic and as a substitute for Ipecac. Sparingh- occurs 'is a 

 balla,st-weed at Northern ports. (Xat. from Jlex. & S. Am.) 



23. CRtJSEA, Cham. (Prof. 1V>„. Cr.se, oi Kccnigsl.ero-, who wrote ou 

 Ruhacem.) - Perennials or annuals (of Mexico and a.ljaceut districts), with liabit 



