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or nearly to the base, its leaves lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, sagittate- 

 clasping; cyme 10 cm. broad or less, many-flowered; pedicels becoming 1-1.5 cm. long; 



calyx 5-6 mm. long, deeply 5-lobed, the lobes ovate, acute; corolla yellow, about 12 mm. 

 long, cleft to below the middle, its lobes sharply acute ; stamens about three- fotirths as long 



as the corolla. 



Type locality : San Bernardino Mountains, southern California. 

 Distribution : Mountains of southern California. 



26. Dudleya Goldmani Rose, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 3 : 19. 1903. 



Acaulescent, Basal leaves in small dense rosettes, rhomboid-ovate, acuminate, 2-4 cm. 

 long, green or often bronzed, more or less glaucous ; flowering branches rather delicate, 

 about 10 cm. long, their leaves small, ovate, cordate at base, acute ; inflorescence few- 

 flowered, the flat-topped cyme very glaucous; pedicels 10-15 mm. long, slender; calyx 4-5 

 mm. long, its lobes ovate, acutish ; corolla pinkish or deep orange, 10 mm. long, its tube 

 very short, its lobes oblong, acutish, rather thin and perhaps more inclined to spread than 

 in other species ; stamens and styles considerably shorter than the corolla. 



Type locality : Pine Valley, head of Carmel River, Monterey County, California. 

 Distribution : Mountains of central California. 



27. Dudleya minor Rose, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 3 : 19. 1903. 



Acaulescent, or very old plants with a carrot-shaped rootstock 5 cm. long, crowned by 

 a small rosette of spreading leaves. Leaves rhomboid-ovate, the larger ones 5-7 cm. long, 

 narrowed at base, abruptly acuminate, glaucous ; inflorescence slender, with a few elongated 

 one-sided racemes; pedicels slender, 10-15 mm. long; calyx 5-7 mm. long, its lobes ovate 

 to ovate-lanceolate, acute; corolla yellow or pale-orange, 12 mm. long, its tube 2 mm. long. 



Type locality : San Gabriel Canon, altitude 600 to 700 meters, Los Angeles County, California. 

 Distribution : Type locality and vicinity. 



28. Dudleya ovatifolia Britton, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 3 : 20. 1903. 



Glabrous, green, 1.5 dm. high or less. Flowering stems rigid ; basal leaves ovate, shin- 

 ing above, acute, about 2 cm. long; leaves of the flowering stems ovate, or the lower ovate- 

 lanceolate, obtuse, or the lower acute, 5-8 mm. long; cymes few-flowered; pedicels very 

 slender, 1 cm. long or less ; flowers about 1 cm. long ; calyx-segments triangular-ovate- 

 lanceolate, about 2.5 mm. long, nearly as long as the corolla-tube; corolla bright-yellow, 

 its segments lanceolate, acute. 



Type locality : Sierra Santa Monica, California. 

 Distribution : Known only from the type locality. 



29. Dudleya nevadensis (S. Wats.) Britton & Rgse, Bull. N. Y. 



Bot. Gard. 3 : 20. 1903, 



Cotyledon nevadensis S. Wats. Bot. Calif. 1 : 212. 1876. 



Acaulescent, green, scarcely glaucous. Basal leaves obovate to oblanceolate-spatulate, 



acute or acuminate, 6-10 cm. long, 3-5 cm. wide, narrowest at the base; leaves of flowering 



branches lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, 1-3 cm. long, acute, sessile or slightly clasping; 



flowering branches 1-2 dm. high; cyme compound, rather dense, 5-8 cm. broad; pedicels 



ra,ther stout, 6-12 mm. long, mostly longer than the flowers ; flower-buds short-ovoid, acute, 



little longer than thick ; calyx-segments triangular-ovate-lanceolate, acute, 3^ mm. long, 



glaucous ; corolla 10-12 mm. long, yellow tinged with red, cleft to the middle or below. 



Type locality : Sonora, California. 

 Distribution : Mountains of middle California. 



30. Dudleya Plattiana (Jepson) Britton & Rose, Bull. N. Y. 



Bot. Gard. 3 : 20. 1903. 



Cotyledon Plattiana Jepson, Fl. West. Middle Calif. 267. 1901. 



Acaulescent. Leaves somewhat glaucous, oblanceolate, 7-10 cm. long, narrowed at 

 base, acute or acuminate; flowering stems 12-20 cm. long; stem-leaves lanceolate, rather 



