BOTAVY; 



Klamath lake. Boot, without doubt, annual. Stems spreading nearly flat upon the groundj 

 much branohed, and, like the foliage, Ac minutely hairy and glandular. 1. kvei petioled, not 

 dilated at the base ; their lobes oblong or obovate, one or two lines Long, the upper ones more 

 confluent. Flowers crowded in Bomewhal Boorpioid clusters, braotleas. Pedicels much sli. .rt t-r 

 than the calyx ; bractlets aone. Calyx in flower only about one and a half or two lines long, 

 in t'ruit becoming three Lines Long : the sepals linear, obtuse, hairy and viscid, Corolla yellow, 

 about the length of the calyx in anthecis, not increasing, bul persistent, in fruit investing the 

 r two-thirds of the ripe capsule: rather narrow eampanulate, 5-lobed, the short <>vate lobes 

 apparently quincuncially imbricated in aestivation, more or Less hairy on the outside, within 



destitute of plica.' or appendages, except a very narrow and thin ring at the vi ry base girting 

 the base of the ovary, which rises into five Blight and tree lobes alternate with the Btamens. 

 Stamens inserted on the very base of the corolla, rather shorter than it: filaments a little 

 dilated downwards: anthers short, didyraous, incumbent; pollen globose. Ovary ovoid, densely 

 hairy, truly 2-celled by the union of the placenta 1 in the axis ; style nol Longer than the ovary, 

 nearly glabrous. 2-cleft at the summit, nearly persistent : stigmas capitellate, rather la 

 Ovules numerous. !V2 — 40 in each cell, namely, 10 to 20 in two rows on each half of each 

 placenta 1 , amphitropous descending, more or less imbricated. Capsule three lines or a little 

 more in length, loculicidal, ovoid, flattish parallel with the valves, incompletely 2-celled ; the 

 placenta- in contact but not coherent at maturity ; adnate to the middle of the valves for the 

 whole length, each maturing from 10 to 20 pendulous seeds. These are oblong, somewhat 

 angled, the thin testa delicately reticulated. Embryo slender, about the length of the 

 albumen. 



As to the affinities of this plant, I cannot doubt that it is a close congener of Hooker and 

 Arnott's Eutoea? lutea, although I possess no specimens of that plant. Judging rrom^the 

 published description and figure, this appears, to differ from our plant chiefly in the slightly, 

 if at all, lobed leaves, the larger flowers, and more conspicuous corolla longer than the calyx, 

 the much longer style, and the fewer, only 8,(?) ovules. The seeds, moreovi r, are represented 

 with spiral markings, something like those of Microgenites, as figured in Hay's Flora Chilena. 

 The inconspicuous disk, adnate to the corolla in our plant, is not noticed in the other, 

 but it might readily be overlooked. Upon this plant Alphonse De Candolle founded his genus 

 Miltitzia ; and the present question is, whether that genus, now strengthened by a second 

 species, is to be adopted, or whether it should be merged in Bentham's genus Bmmenanthe? 

 It will be seen that I incline to the latter view; but should retain .Miltitzia as a subgenus, 

 distinguished by considerable difference in habit, by the ovoid (instead of the oblong) 

 ovary, and by the 10-toothed small disk being adnate to the very base of the corolla, 

 instead of free from it. I perceive n<» other characters. The yellow or sulphur-colored and 

 marcescent corolla marks the genua. 



Plate XV. Emmh.vantiu: CMii.tit/ia) PABVULOBA. Tart of the plant of the natural si/..-. I 

 1. A flower. 2 Ua laid open, with the stamens. ;;. L'istil, the ovary transversely 



divided. 4. A pistil, with the ovary vertically divided. .".. Portion of a placenta, with ovules 

 6. A mature cat th the ] dyx and corolla. 7. Trans. .,,],.. 



8. A valve of the capsule, with i and at . obliquely. 9. A set 1. 10. The 



ally divided, show 



