the Spanish name of a plant which the Indians of California use in decoction as a sudorific drink for the cure of the venereal disease. It is thus described in the third volume (English translation) of Peyrouse's Voyage round the World.

Calyx quadriflled, egg-shaped, of the same size with the corolla; placed beneath the fruit, deciduous. Corolla polypetalous; petals four, small, entire, egg-shaped, fixed upon the receptacle. Stamina, eight, fixed to the receptacle, of the same length as the corolla; threads channelled, concave on the one side, and convex on the other; wings veiled, anther simple. Pistil, germ oblong, covered, with five angles, and five cells; seeds oblong; pericarpium covered with fine hairs.

This plant is a shrub of middle size; the branches are angular and knotty, and covered with an adhesive varnish; the lateral branches are alternate, and placed very near to each other: the leaves are small, petiolated, bilobed, opposite, smooth on the upper side, the under side indistinctly veined; the blossoms are axillary, sometimes terminating, pedunculated, solitary, but sometimes in pairs.

From this description, the gouvernante appears to be a new species of daphne.