386 PHANEROGAMOUS PLANTS. 



cauJe spitha?nceo ad pedalem e basi crassiore squamis ovato-oblongis 

 vel lanceolatis instructor in spicam virgatam muUifloram producto ; 

 floribus confertis brevi-pedicellatis albidis. 



1. Allotropa virgata, Torr. & Gray. 



Hab. Eastern slope of the Cascade Mountains, Washington Ter- 

 ritory.— Plant about 10 inches high, "pale and etiolated," clothed 

 with linear-lanceolate acute clasping scales which are nearly an inch 

 in length. Raceme about 20-flowered. Calyx a pair of lanceolate 

 sepals, which may perhaps [better] be regarded as bractlets. Petals 

 orbicular, concave, the outermost with a short abrupt point, the others 

 obtuse. Stamens 10 in all the flowers examined. Anthers oblong- 

 ovate. Style almost wanting at first, afterwards more manifest. Fruit 

 too young to show the dehiscence. 



[Since rediscovered in Oregon by Elihu Hall, in Northern Cali- 

 fornia by Bolander and Kellogg. Vide Gray, in Pacif. R. R. Surv. 6, 

 p. 81, & Proc. Amer. Acad. 7, p. 368, & 8, p. 394. The genus is here 

 characterized upon the new materials.] 



Ord 47. STYRACE^. 



1. STYRAX, Town. 

 1. Styrax Californicum, Torr. 



Styrax Californicum, Torr. PI. Frem. in Smithson. Contrib. vol. 6 ; & Bot. Whippl. 



Hab. Valley of the Sacramento, California. — A handsome shrub, 

 with conspicuous white flowers : nearly allied to S. officinale. Fruit 

 the size of a small marble, 3-valved from the summit to below the 

 middle. 



