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lumbia University. California to Arizona, New Mexico and 
Mexico. 
New Mexico: Wright, no. 1681.* 
California: Fort Yuma, Major Thomas; Mexican Boundary 
Survey, San Luis Rey, 1850. 
Lower California: Palmer, no. 5. 1887.” 
Mexico: Pringle, no. 1051. 
PHILIBERTELLA HIRTELLA (A. Gray). 
Sarcostemma lineare var. hirtella A. Gray, Bot. Calif. 1: 478. 
1876. 
Philibertia linearis var. hirtella A. Gray, Syn. Fl. 2: Part 1, 88. 
1878. 
Stems many, in clusters, mostly branched near the base, erect 
and twining above from a stout corky-barked decumbent ? or pros- 
. trate? stem or rhizome; densely and softly cinereous-pubescent 
and pale gray-green throughout; leaves sessile, or very short peti- 
oled, I1~3.4 cm. long, narrowly linear, thickish, densely cinereous- 
pubescent on both surfaces; peduncles 1-4 cm. long, 8—12-flow- 
ered or more; pedicels 5-8 mm. long, slender; calyx-lobes lan- 
ceolate, acute; corolla 8-9 mm. broad, the lobes acutish, duil 
purple? with a scarious ciliate margin, unequally granulose above, 
cinereous-pubescent beneath; outer crown shallow, slightly undu- 
late; scales of the stamineal crown flattened, acutish; follicles 
usually in pairs, conspicuously diverging, 5—5.5 cm. long, fusiform, 
long-attenuate at the apex, less so or obtuse at the base, densely 
cinereous-pubescent, 3-4 seeded, possibly more; seeds 7-8 mm. 
long, flat and thin, the margin slightly revolute, entire at the apex, 
strongly tuberculate on the inside and granulose on the outside; 
coma 2~2.5 cm.long. May. — 
Original locality, Sandy River, Fort Mohave, California. — 
Type in Herb. Harvard University. 
Arizona: The Needles, Jones, no. 3815; Palmer, 1884. 
California: Colorado River Valley, Palmer, no. 441, 1876; Wil- 
low Creek Cafion, Panamint Mountains, Coville and Funston, no. 
817, 1891. Said to extend into Texas and Mexico. ws 
_ PHILIBERTELLA ToRREYI (A. Gray.) ae 
Sovcasieninas os ? ‘Torr. Mex. Bound. Surv. 161. 1859. 
Not Decne. ie 
