NEOPIIYTON. 
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vezia of Dombey in Jussieu united thereto by 
W. P. differs by calix 5fid, tube ventricose be- 
low and capsule globose. 
404. Htjsselia juncea. Zuc. in bot. reg. 
1773. Branches 4gone erect virgate, leaves 
minute petiolate ovate subentire, peduncles fili- 
form subbiflore — Texas and Mexico, flowers 
scarlet. 
405. Russelia flam me a Raf. Gerardia do 
Bartr. trav p. 412. stem ramose pyramidal, 
leaves lanceolate ? flowers in a pyramidal foli- 
ose panicle — Alabama, indicated 60 years ago 
by Bartr am, and still not in any work nor gar- 
den as yet : although a splendid plant 4 feet 
high, crowded with large scarlet flowers, tubu- 
lar and bilabiate ; therefore referable to this 
Genus, unless it is a new one to be called Fla- 
MARIA COCCINEA Raf. 
406. MACRANTHERA Torrey 1835. Con- 
radia Nuttal 1834 but not of Martius. Calix 
deeply 5fid, corolla tubular border 5fid sube- 
qual. Stamens 4 subequal exserted, filaments 
hairy, anthers linear sagittate. Style long fili- 
form, stigma simple or bifid. Capsule ovate 
acum. polysperm, as in Aureolaria. Peren- 
nials , leaves opposite divided , flowers axilla- 
ry racemose yellow on long rejiexed incurved 
peduncles .—I adopt the name of Torrey in- 
stead of Conradia already twice employed, by 
myself in 1825 for my Leptilix Neog. 25 for the 
American Tofieldas, see Abama 1st part, and 
also by Martius, Macranthera is not however 
a very good name as the anthers are not very 
long, the name of Toxopus (Raf.) meaning in- 
curved peduncles would have been better, but 
the 2 sp. known (and there may* be more) ap- 
