Robinson and Greenman—Genus Lamourouxia. 169 
Ill. A Synoptic Revision of the Genus Lamourousxia. 
pairs, densely woolly ; cells distinct, parallel or oblique, often 
calearate at the base. Style undivided; stigma terminal. 
Capsule ovoid, loculicidal ; valves entire, with central placente. 
eeds very numerous, small, minutely roughened or reticulated. 
—Chiefly perennial herbs exclusively of subtropical and western | 
tropical America, extending from Northern Mexico to Peru, 
he chiefly upon the mountains and at middle altitudes. 
abit erect, decumbent, or rarely somewhat scandent. Leaves 
°pposite, entire, dentate, serrate, crenate, or in one species dis- 
Sected. Flowers orange to crimson, showy, spicate- or race- 
1 08e-paniculate, or somewhat corymbous.—Nov. Gen. et Spee. 
; 339, t. 167-169; Benth. in DC. Prodr. x, 539. 
S 1. EupHrastorpes Benth. 1.c. Fertile stamens 4, equal or 
nearly so; a very rudimentary fifth sometimes present. 
* Leaves bipinnatifid. 
b i L. Muntiria HBK. Perennial, well-marked in the genus 
uf its dissected foliage, scabrous-puberulent to densely and some- 
th at glandularly pilose: base a small woody tuber: flowers in 
© typical form 12 to 16 lines in length. HBK., 1. ¢., 339. 
. laciniata Mart. and Gal., Bull. Acad. Brux. xii. 2, 32 (inel. var. 
(2 08d, the commoner form).—Common at moderate altitudes 
“,500 to 8,000 or even 11,000 feet), throughout Central and 
pages Mexico to Guatemala; San Luis Potosi, Barry an 
ean eye ; Jalisco, Pringle, 2833; Valley of Mexico, Bour- 
rect, ©t23 Mexico, without locality, Graham ; Chiapas, Ghies- 
Orin Guatemala, Pl. Guat. Donnell-Smith a 
ign a, Seaton, 134; Sierra de San Felipe, Oaxaca, » 
oe Nelson, 1098, 1798. pe 
. GRANDIFLORA Benth. Flowers considerably larger, be- 
Beane 2 inches in length.—Benth., }. ¢., 540. Z. grandiflor 
*» acc. to Linden, Cat. n. 10 (1855), 6.—Jaliseo, Hartweg, 
