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lower part bearing linear leaves ; inflorescence an open panicle ; flowers subsessile ; calyx 

 5-parted; calyx-lobes equal, ovate, acute, 3^ mm. long; corolla yellowish, its segments 

 united at base, 6-7 mm. long, widely spreading, acute and keeled at apex ; stamens 10, all 

 borne on the corolla, those alternating with the corolla-lobes attached lower down than the 

 others and broadened at base ; carpels united at base, in age widely spreading. 



Type locality : Edges of rocks and ravines, San Diego, California. 

 Distribution : Southern California near the sea. 



9. Stylophyllum attenuatum (S. Wats.) Britton & Rose, Bull. 



N. Y. Bot. Gard. 3: 36. 1903. 



Cotyledon attenuata S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 22 : 472. 1887. 



Caulescent and woody at base, branching above. Basal leaves linear, terete, about 1 

 dm. long ; flowering stems several fropi the crown of leaves, leafy below ; inflorescence a 

 pair of terminal secund racemes and several short lateral ones ; flowers short-pedicelled or 

 subsessile ; calyx-lobes ovate, acutish, 3 mm. long ; corolla 8 mm. long, yellowish, tinged 

 with green below, reddish above, its lobes united at base for one-fourth their length; 

 carpels united at base, only slightly spreading, but clearly separated from each other above. 



Type locality : San Quintin, Ivower California. 

 Distribution : Known only from the original station. 



10. Stylophyllum Parishii Britton, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 3 : 37. 1903. 



Stems not as thick as in S. edule^ somewhat glaucous. Flowering branches 2-3 dm. 

 high, rather weak, glabrous ; inflorescence paniculate ; pedicels 8 mm. long or less ; calyx 

 5-parted, the lobes 4 mm. long, broadly oblong with rounded apex ; corolla-segments twice 

 as long as the calyx, united at the base into a tube 2 mm long, yellowish (?) ; stamens 10, 

 borne on the corolla at the top of the tube ; carpels united only near the base. 



Type locality : Pala, San Diego County, Cal. 

 Distribution : Known only from the type locality. 



11. Stylophyllum densiflorum Rose, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 3 : 36. 1903. 



Cotyledon nudicaule Abrams, Bull. So. Calif. Acad. Sci. 2 : 42. 1903. Not C. nudicaulis I^am. 1786. 



Plants growing in dense clumps with more or less branching rootstocks, very glaucous 

 throughout. Leaves numerous, erect, nearly terete, acute, 6-12 cm. long ; flowering branches 

 slender and weak ; inflorescence a rather dense compact cyme, its ultimate branches rather 

 short, 4-8-flowered; pedicels short, 1-3 mm. long; calyx 2 mm. long, its lobes twice as 

 long as the tube, broadly ovate to orbicular, obtuse ; corolla white or pinkish, 6 mm. long, 

 its segments spreading, distinct nearly to the base ; stamens 10, a little shorter than the 



corolla ; carpels spreading. 



Type locality : San Gabriel Canon, Ivos Angeles County, California. 

 Distribution : Type locality and vicinity. 



12. Stylophyllum Orcuttii Rose, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 3 : 36. 1903. 



Resembling S. attenuatum in its foliage and habit, but stouter and very glaucous. 

 Corolla-tube much shorter and shorter even than the cal3rx, the lobes broader and more 

 keeled, rose-colored, not at all tinged with yellow ; calyx-lobes obtusish ; anthers red. 



Type locality : Initial Monument, California. 

 Distribution : Southern California and adjacent islands. 



19. HASSEANTHUS Rose, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 3: 37. 1903. 



Stems several, arising from small globose or oblong corms. Basal leaves linear, terete, 

 narrowed below into flattened petioles ; stem-leaves narrowly ovate, turgid but somewhat 

 flattened. Cal3rx: 5-lobed. Corolla-segments united at base into a short tube, yellow, or 

 white changing to purple. Carpels 5, united at base(?), widely spreading. 



Type species, Sedunt variegatum S. Wats. 



