Jamesia americana Torr. & Gray

Edwinia americana (T. & G.) Heller, Bull. Torrey
Club 24: 477. 1897.
Jamesia americana T. & G. Fl. N. Am. 1 : 593, 1840.
A shrub 0.5-2 m. tall, the young branches finely pubescent, the bark red or purplish, exfoliating ; leaves approximate at the ends of the branches, the blades ovate to oval or suborbicular, 1.5-6 cm. long, serrate, finely and usually densely paleor whitish-tomentulose beneath, conspicuously many-veined, slender-petioled ; cymes rather manyflowered; hypanthium broadly turbinate during anthesis, becoming 2-3 mm. long and swollen at maturity; sepals acute, becoming 2-3 mm. long; petals cuneate to oblongcuneate, 10-12 mm. long; capsule-body 4-4.5 mm. long, rounded or somewhat ttirbinate at the base, scarcely, if at all, surpassing the sepals.
Type locality : Along the Platte or the Canadian River, near the Rocky Mountains?
Distribution : Wyoming to Utah and New Mexico.