246 Eastwoop: New SPECIES OF OREOCARYA 
heads, containing from two to five sessile flowers, the lower clus- 
ters somewhat distant, the upper becoming almost capitate : 
bracts, the diminished upper leaves; bractlets linear, about equal- 
ling the divisions of the calyx: calyx 7 mm. long, shorter than 
the tube of the corolla, with lanceolate-acuminate divisions 6 mm. 
long, ribbed, with the pubescence yellowish, appressed and bristly, 
densely so on the outer’ surface and the foliaceous tips of the 
inner, the lower part conniving over the nutlets: corolla white, 
the tube twice as long as the limb, 9 mm.; divisions orbicular, 4 
mm. long and wide, crenate-sinuate; crests truncate, slightly 
emarginate, minutely papillate, 1 mm. long; no crests or scales 
at base of corolla-tube: anthers linear-oblong, almost 2mm. long ; 
on short broad filaments, inserted below the middle of the anthers, 
the apex reaching to 1 mm. below the crests: nutlets ovate, 4 
mm. long, dorsal side arched and keeled; surface rough with 
pointed muriculations like microscopic mountain peaks and with 
fine vermiculate elevated lines intervening, margined except at 
base, ventral surface with similar sculpture, the scar protuberant, 
extending from near the summit, broadening to the deep fork 
which is about 2 mm. across: gynobase conical, about 3 mm. 
high. 
This well-marked species was collected by W. H. Shockley, in 
whose honor it is named. It was collected in gulches-on Miller 
Mountain, Esmeralda County, Nevada, at an elevation of 7500 ft. 
It is No. 244 of Mr. Shockley’s collection, distributed as Ary- 
nitskia fulvocanescens Gray. 
CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 
