Eastwoop: New Species OF WESTERN PLANTS 485 
leaves 2 or 3, the longest not extending to the flowers, narrow, 
1.5 dm. long, 4 mm. wide, the margin with a narrow, white, 
minutely serrulate edge: spathes 2-flowered, the largest bract 
scarcely reaching the tube of the perianth, acuminate, green, with 
white membranous margins, the longest about 8 cm. long, inner 
ones shorter, more membranous : flowers on pedicels 2.5 cm. long, 
longer than the 3-sided, linear-oblong ovary : tube of the perianth 
slender, cylindraceous, 3 cm. long, widening at the throat; stan- 
dards spatulate with broad claws longer than the blades and about 
half as wide, together 5 cm.; blade 1.5 cm. wide, pale cream or 
lilac-white, marked with lilac veins or dots, the central rib yellow 
except the upper three fourths of the blade ; falls pale lilac, lanceo- 
late, undulate, 5 cm. long, 1.5 cm. wide : style-branches 3 cm. long, 
with oblong crests 1 cm. long, the margins erosely dentate ; scale of 
the stigma broadly deltoid, obtuse: stamens with broad, subulate 
filaments, half as long as the anthers, wider at base, together more 
than 2 cm.: fruit immature. 
This is closely related to /ris Douglasiana Herb. It is readily 
distinguished from any of the forms of that variable species by 
much narrower, paler green, very sharply attenuate leaves, and 
much longer and more slender calyx-tube. The flowers have a 
delicate perfume, and in this respect it differs from all other known 
species in California. 
This was collected by Mr. Charles W. Kitts, at Nevada City, 
California, May, 1902. The description was made from fresh ma- 
" terial. 
“ Chorizanthe villosa 
Stems prostrate, spreading, forming loose mats 2~4 dm. in di- 
ameter, canescently villous throughout with fine, silky, upwardly- 
spreading hairs, the inflorescence glandular: leaves opposite, ob- 
long-spatulate, tapering to long margined petioles which broaden 
and are connate at base, the entire leaf 2-4 cm. long: cymes pedi- 
cellate, 2 or more together, rarely solitary at the ends of short 
branchlets, these scattered and alternate with a solitary flower in 
the opposite leaf-axil or at the base of the peduncle ; sometimes 
the solitary flower alone is present and is found at even the lowest 
leaf-axils : bracts at base of involucres linear, tipped with a stout 
straight spine which varies in length: involucres pale green, glan- 
dular as well as villous, pedicellate, urn-shaped but not constricted 
below the teeth, corrugated between the ribs, the alternate divis- 
ions stronger and tipped with a bristle; bristles unequal, one 
much longer than the rest, the others alternately shorter, glabrous 
at tip but villous below, rarely the longest bristle is uncinate at 
