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pods slender, straight, acute, 1 to + inches long, spreading or 
deflexed, not strongly compressed, lightly torulose: seeds oval, 
thickish, marginless. 
Tehipite Valley, Fresno Co, Calif. Hall & Chandler, July, 
1900, distributed under n. 492 ; type in U. S. Herb. 
P. MAGNA. Stout glabrous glaucous annual branched from 
near the base, 2 feet high: lowest leaves spatulate-obovate, 3 
inches long, 14 broad, coarsely dentate, the broad triangular 
teeth not callous-tipped, those subtending the branches shorter, 
cordate-ovate, obtuse, entire or nearly so: flowers not seen: 
fruiting raceme long, lax, the pedicels 1 to 14 inches long, 
Stoutish, ascending: pods very long and slender, 3 to 43 inches 
long, subterete, scarcely torulose, straight and ascending or 
subfalcate-recurved, tipped with a prominent style: seeds small, 
oblong-linear, marginless. 
This plant, truly remarkable for its size among members of 
this group, was sent me many years since, by W. G. Wright, of 
San Bernardino, for my opinion as to its being Strepianthus 
Breweri, to which, in habit and foliage it bears no slight resem- 
blance; and I am confident its place is nearit. It was found by 
Mr. Wright at an elevation of 4900 feet in the San Bernardino 
Mountains, in 1889. 
Ecologically connecting with the last, as well as more or less 
truly allied to it by the long narrow pods and nearly or quite 
wingless seeds, are several streptanthoid plants of southern 
California which for several reasons I decline to refer to Peio- 
cardia, They are still further removed from Euciisia. They 
are perennials also, and have their congeneric affinity, I am per- 
suaded, with such plants as Nuttall’s Streptanthus cordatus and 
my own segregates of that. Here also I would place that plant 
of northern California that is called S. dardaius. It falls into 
none of the genera proposed in this paper; and the whole group 
of these perennials, every member of which is, I think, foreign to 
Strepianthus, needsto be studied carefully in connection with all 
those embraced within Mr. Watson’s confused and illogical Cau- 
