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KOSTELETZKYA (ORTHOPETALUM) THURBERI. Herbaceous and merely scabrous-puberulent: leaves round-cordate and angulate-trilobed, uppermost oblong-ovate and acuminate, serrulate: flowers numerous in a loosed and naked compound panicle: bractlets of involucel setaceous: calyx (3 lines long) not accrescent: corolla less than an inch long, rose-colour: stamens rather few near the apex of the filiform column: capsule acutely 5-lobed, hispid along the angles. K. paniculata, Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. 40, not all of Benth., which has recently been collected by Dr. Palmer.
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