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garden PLANTS-THEIR geography, LI. 
PERSONALES. 
TIIK LEUCOPHVLLlfM, TECOMA AND ACANTHUS 
ALLIANCE. 
This is a widely diffused and extensive group 
with 32 tribes, 471 Genera and 5,35^ species. All 
manner of growth is represented — aquatics, annual, 
biennial and perennial herbs, epiphyte, shrubs, 
woody and annual climbers, and trees a few of 
which extend to temperate regions. Speaking 
broadly, they 
are distin- 
guished from 
the previous 
group by the 
irregular struc- 
ture of flowers 
so well ex- 
pressed by the 
genus Big- 
nonia; in fact, 
Lindley’s term 
‘ ‘Bignoniales’ ’ 
seems to be 
quite as happy 
a name for the 
group as the 
one now em- 
ployed — arep- 
lication of the 
“ P e rsonatje ” 
of Linnseus. In 
Dr. Lindley’s 
words, “the 
Bignonial alli- 
ance may be 
regarded as the 
centre of a 
particular por- 
tion of Exo- 
gens, round 
which several 
others ^re 
Verbascum Olvmpicum " GardenhiS', 
s t a t i oned in 
nearly equal degrees of contiguity,” and called 
“Bicarpellatse,” I believe. The tribes of the 
series have been greatly confused and shifted about, 
and will continue to be so until the desirability 01 
a set of good full tribal characters is recognized. 
When these are gotten out and compared a whole 
tribe may be moved from one group to another in 
the books or the herbarium without violence to the 
framework of the system. At present, if there is 
a framework, it is sure to be out of harmony with 
all others, and to move an order destroys it. 
Leucophylbun is a small genus of shrubs found 
in Mexico and Texas. They have silvery pubes- 
cent foliage, purplish flowers an inch or so across, 
and they grow from a foot to six or eight feet 
high. 
Verbascum “mullien” has 100 species or more, 
many of them almost cosmopolitan in temperate 
regions. The species found in the states are 
naturalized from Europe. They are often coarse 
weeds, yet striking effects are had with the better 
kinds, such as Olympicum, Phceniceum Kelwayi, 
phlomoides, niveum, Songaricum and others. The 
foliage is woolly, nearly silvery sometimes, and the 
flowers, though fugitive, are produced in succession 
for quite a time, and are yellow, whitish or purp- 
lish. 
Calceolaria is a genus of annual and perennial 
herbs in 120 species, all from sub-tropical parts 
of America, with a few from New Zealand. About 
eight species are nearly hardy in the south of 
P'ngland besides hybrids, and it would seem that 
several could be grown in parts of California with- 
out much difficulty. 
Alonsoa, in 6 or 8 species from the Andes of 
Peru and Mexico, are not so much seen as they 
once were. 
Anarrhinum is an allied genus without a nose 
to the flowers. There are ii species in Mediter- 
ranean countries. A few blueish and whitish flow- 
ered kinds in cultivation are quite pretty. 
Maurandia , including Lophospermum as a sec- 
tion, are mostly Mexican climbers with white, 
purple or reddish flowers, M. Wizlizeni is Texan 
and has pale blue flowers. M. Barclayana and M. 
scandens are both popular plants. 
Rhodochiton volubile is a closely allied Mexican 
climber with handsome rosy or red flowers and 
colored calyxes. 
Pliygelitis capensis is generally understood to be 
from South Africa, but the Kew handbook ( Her- 
baceous, 1895 ) says South Pffirope. It has stood 
with protection in New England. It has rosy red 
flowers with a yellow throat. There is another 
species, and it may possibly be the one sold from 
Washington, which seems almost able to care for 
itself in New Jersey. 
Scrophularia is a genus of mostly rank herbs in 
1 20 species. S. aquatica is European. S. coccinea 
is a native. They are generally found in wet 
grounds on all the continents. 
Hallcria, in 8 species, are from South Africa, 
Abyssinia and Madagascar. Those in cultivation 
are shrubs with scarlet flowers and may do in 
California. 
Chelone is now limited to the four North 
American species — C. glabra, obliqua, Lyoni and 
nemorosa. James MaePherson , 
