NEW PLANTS FROM MIDDLE CALIFORNIA. 79 
. PENTSTEMON CEPHALOPHORUS. Subspecific to P. procerus; 
low and stout, herbaceous save as to the horizontally superfi- 
cially seated subligneous rootstock, the stongly decumbent 
flowering stems 4 to 8 inches high, glabrous below, as are also 
the obovate or spatulate subcoriaceous basal leaves, but upper 
part of stem and the inflorescence, even to the corollas, sparsely 
and slenderly glandular-hairy : cauline leaves in 3 pairs, all of 
oblong outline, rather larger than the basal ones, all entire, the 
middle pair usually with a few flowers in the axils, the summit 
of the stem crowned with a dense globose and capitate cluster : 
sepals thin lance-linear : corollas less than + inch long, straight 
and narrowly tubular, with a small limb of short subequal 
rounded segments ; color purplish. 
Summit Lakes, at 11,000 feet, Culbertson, 19 Aug., 1994. 
Bakers’ n. 4551. 
APOCYNUMCARDIOPHYLLUM. Small and rather slender, only 
8 or 10 inches high, very erect, branching from near the base, 
stem and lower face of leaves very glaucous, the whole plant 
glabrous; leaves short-petioled and all deflexed, mostly about 
1 inch long, at base subcordate or occasionally only truncate, at 
apex very obtuse, mucronate, dark-green and pale-veiny above ; 
flowers rather many, terminal and from the axils of the upper 
leaves, of large size but in small clusters: sepals short, ovate, 
acuminate, of about one-fourth the length of the large, deeply 
flesh-colored corollas, these broad-cylindric, about + inch long, 
their at length spreading lobes very short and obtuse; fruit not 
seen. 
Hackett’s Meadows, at 9,000 feet, Culbertson, 18 July, 1904. 
Baker’s n. 4472. Very near that more northerly dwarf with 
decumbent stems, broader leaves, and more deeply cleft corolla, 
now called A. pumilum. 
CRYPTANTHE INCANA. Annual, freely branched from near 
the base, the branches ascending, a foot long or less; whole plant 
cinerous-hispidulous and with a different minute strigose hairi- 
ness underneath the more copious hispid indument: flowering 
branches loosely spicate, bractless except at base: calyx small, 
the sepals short, narrow throughout, not with attenuate or pro- 
