2 
light willow green at bottom and becoming lighter at top, bearing small 
bracts of same color save for brov/nish tips and whitish margins f bracts 
grading into sepals still lighter, with pinkish tints, and these grading 
into petals creamy white at base with pink upper parts; sepals and petals 
both oblanceolate , the latter being acuminate; ovary long oval, 2.5 mm. 
in greatest diameter, and 5.5 rm. long; tube proper 3.5 mm. long; throat 
narrow, 1,5 cm. long, 1 cm. wide at base; stamens attached full length of 
throat, numerous; filaments slightly darker than the pink in petals, becom- 
ing lighter at the top; anthers dirty greenish yellow, small; pistil exsert 
beyond stamens, gxSximxxiEHgx style creamy .white , 3^3 cm. long; stigma lobe 
6 and 8, aureolin colored, as given in Winsor and Newton's Water Colors 
Collected by 
L. Lewton April 14, 190 
under miesquite bushe 
down 
7 miles east of Brownsville. Texas 
Rio Grande 
