Kjg W. J. Jepson. 



glabrous; flowers spicate; calyx-buds large. 2,8 cm long, before anthesis 

 borne on abruptly deflexed sessile ovaries; calyx-tip not free in bud, the 

 united lobes turned to one side under the open corolla; petals lilac, 

 sprinkled with crimson dots, cuneate-obovate, abruptly short-clawed, 

 truncate or even shallowly retuse at the summit, 2,5 to 3 cm long; 

 stamens subequal, nearly or quite one-half the length of the petals; 

 style usually exceeding stamens; stigma peltate or somewhat saucer- 

 shaped, undulately 4-lobed; ovary slender, white with fine short hairs; 

 capsule apparently 4-sided but mature fruit not known. 



California: „Sandy plains of Los Angeles," W. Lobb, 1854 (?). 

 Elsmer, no. 3848, Gaviota, is, perhaps, the same. Differs from G. Bottae 

 in its stouter main stem, and in the strictly lateral deflexed pods which 

 do not usurp a falsely terminal position. 



8. Godetia Dudleyana Abrams forma Brandegeae Jepson, 1. c, p. 334. 

 Petals broad, mostly 1 to 2 cm broad, shallowly notched. 

 California: Simpson's Ranch, Sweetwater Creek, El Dorado County, 



Mrs. K. Brandegee, May 29, 1907. Petals exceedingly variable in 

 notching, exceptionally with a slender point in the notch. It may be a 

 hybrid between the species and Godetia biloba. (PI. 29, fig. 7). 



9. Godetia arcuata (Kellogg) Jepson, 1. c, p. 335. 



Syn.: Oenothera arcuata Keif., Proc. Cal. Acad., vol. 1, p. 58 

 (1885). 



Slender, 2 to 5V 2 dm. high, sparingly branched, more or less falsely 

 dichotomous on account of the repeated divergence of axis and branch : 

 leaves linear, entire, 3 to 5 cm long, 2 to 3 mm broad, obtusish, the 

 fascicled and upper leaves 5 to 6 cm long, narrow (1 to 2 mm broad), 

 commonly conduplicate and appearing much narrower, more or less 

 arcuate curving, with long slender acute tips; flower buds large, ovate 

 acute, 2 to 2,5 cm long; calyx-tube 4 to 6 mm long, often purple inside, 

 the lobes remaining united and turned to one side; petals flabelliform, 

 lilac, 2 to 3 cm long, 1,2 to 2,6 cm broad, usually retuse at the more 

 or less truncate apex; anthers 4 to 8 mm long; siyle much longer, often 

 twice longer than stamens; stamens yellow, linear, 2,3 to 3.5 mm long; 

 ovary hispidulose with short spreading hairs of unequal length; capsule 

 S-ribbed, the ribs separated by broad sharply defined channels, those 

 opposite the partitions broader, about 2,5 cm long, with a beak 5 or 

 6 mm long and borne on a pedicel 5 to 10 mm long: seed 1 mm long, 

 sharply pointed at one end, the other end obliquely flattened and with a 

 thin margin. (See pi. 29, figs. 5, 17. 20, 26.) 



California: Local in the Sierras of El Dorado County: American 

 River, Apr. 27, 1698, comm. by Miss Alice King; near Placerville, Mrs. 

 K. Brandegee, May 25, 1907, which is the type locality for Kellogg's 

 Oenothera arcuata, Proc. Cal. Acad., vol. 1, p. 58 (1855). I also include 

 with slight uncertainty -the following: Harmon Peak, Calaveras Co.. 

 Davy, no. 1407, May 18 T 30. 1895; Sherlocks, Mariposa Co., Congdon, 

 May 3, 1898. 



