60 A. À. Heller. 
L'absence de feuilles, ou si l’on veut les feuilles réduites à des gaínes. 
distingue cette espèce de toutes les autres de la section Seticaudae. 
Paraguay: In campis prope Caaguazú (Hassler, no. 9678). — Floret 
Decembri. 
(Fortsetzung folgt.) 
XIX. Plantae novae Californiae mediae occidentalis 
ab A. A. Heller descriptae. 
(Ex: Bull. South Calif. Ac. Sc. Los Angeles, II [1903], pp. 65—70.) 
Y 1. Hookera synandra Heller, 1. c., p. 65. 
Stems slender, purplish, about 3 dm high from a fibrous-coated corm; 
fully developed umbel about 7 cm long, the pedicels, ascending, incurved, 
subtended by conspicuous scarious, ovate, acuminate bracts marked by 
three or more reddish veins; perianth 3 cm long, very slightly constricted 
above the ovary, the tube greenish, a little over 1 cm long, segments 
oblong, violet, somewhat spreading, marked with a dark midvein, the 
outer ones blunt, about 4 mm wide, the inner ones acute, somewhat 
narrower; staminodia erect, white, 2,5 cm long, closely investing the 
stamens, and slightly exceeding them. 
No. 5742, collected at the Petrified Forest, Sonoma county, June 23, 
1902, growing in dry, open gravelly ground. It resembles H. coronaria 
outwardly, but in that species the staminodia lie against the lobes of the 
perianth, and consequently stand entirely away from the stamens. 
p. Triteleia angustiflora Heller, 1. c., p. 66. 
Scape erect from a deep-seated, heavily coated fibrous corm, about 
3 dm high, but occasionally much taller; involucral braets lance-acuminate, 
1—1,5 em long, veined; umbel 5—15 flowered, pedicels 1,5 cm long; 
perianth deep indigo-blue, about 2,5 cm long, narrow funnelform, slightly 
unequal below, the segments about 1 cm long, the outer ones narrower 
than the inner, acute; the inner obvate-spatulate, obtuse; anthers versatile 
but erect, unequally inserted, those opposite the outer segments an anther- 
length shorther than the others. 
No. 5728, collected on Tiburon peninsula along the Bay road, Marin 
county, June 19, 1902. 
Technically there is little to distinguish this species from T. laxa, 
but in the field it is evidently distinct. It begins to bloom at least a 
month later, has a smaller, less flaring flower, of a rich, deep indigo- 
blue, and is more confined to wooded banks and slopes. It was first 
noted on the slopes of Tamalpais above Mill Valley, and is plentiful 
throughout Sonoma county in favorable situations. 
