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decurrent, acute or obtuse to broadly rounded at the apex, thick and succulent, glaucescent; 
peduncles axillary or in terminal cymes, 1-5.5 cm. long, stout, the leaves of the inflorescence 
much reduced and bractlike, often deciduous; involucre campanulate, 2.5~4.5 cm. long, green 
or tinged with red, the 5 lobes equaling or shorter than the tube, broadly ovate or oval, obtuse 
to acute, usually abruptly apiculate; perianth 3.5-5 ‘cm. long, purplish-red, glabrous, the 
tube 5-6 mm. in diameter, abruptly expanded into a shallowly 5-lobed limb 2.5-3 cm. broad; 
stamens equaling the perianth; fruit obovoid-oblong, 5 mm. long, nearly black, 5-angulate, 
rugulose, obscurely puberulent or glabrate. 
TYPE LocaLiry: Mountain sides about Yreka, California. 
DistRIBUTION: In dry soil, northern California from Tehama County to Siskiyou County. 
3. Quamoclidion Froebelii (Behr) Standley, Contr. U. S. Nat. 
Herb. 12: 359. 1909. 
Oxybaphus Froebelii Behr, Proc. Calif. Acad. 1: 69. 1855. 
Mirabilis multiflora pubescens S. Wats. Bot. Calif. 2: 2. 1880. 
Mirabilis Froebeliit Greene, Bull. Calif. Acad. 1: 124. 1885. 
Mirabilis multiflora Froebelii M. E E. Jones, Contr. West. Bot. 10: 49. 1902. 
Quamoclidion Froebelii glabratum Standley, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 12: 360. 1909, 
Mirabilis Froebelit glabrata Jepson, Fl. Calif. 458. 1914. 
Plants erect or ascending, 3-6 dm. high, much branched, the branches stout, densely 
short-villous and viscid throughout, or rarely glabrate; petioles stout, 0.3-3 cm. long; leaf- 
blades broadly deltoid-ovate, reniform-orbicular, rounded-ovate, or oblong-ovate, 4-10 cm 
long, 2-7.5 cm. wide, rounded to broadly cordate at the base and short-decurrent, rounded to 
acute at the apex, often abruptly acute or apiculate, thick and succulent, pale-green, densely 
short-villous or puberulent and viscid on both surfaces or rarely glabrate; peduncles numerous, 
0.4-3.5 cm. long, solitary in the lower axils and cymosely clustered at the ends of the branches, 
the cymes usually very leafy, the subtending leaves often much reduced and bractlike; in- 
volucre campanulate, usually 6-8-flowered, 2.2—3.5 cm. long, densely short-villous and glandu- 
lar-puberulent, the 5 lobes equaling or usually shorter than the tube, triangular to ovate- 
oblong, acute or obtuse; perianth purplish-red, 3.5-4.5 cm. long, short-villous and viscid 
outside, the tube 4-8 mm. in diameter, expanded into a shallowly 5-lobed limb 2—2.5 cm. broad; 
stamens equaling or slightly exceeding the perianth; fruit elliptic-oval in outline, narrowed at 
both ends, about 8 mm. long and 6 mm. in diameter, olive mottled with brown, marked with 
10 vertical light-colored lines, smooth, glabrous. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Near Warner’s Ranch, southern California. : 
DIsTRIBUTION: In dry sandy soil, western Nevada, southeastern California, and northern 
Lower California. 
4. Quamoclidion multiflorum Torr.; A. Gray, Am. Jour. Sci. II. 
15: 321. 1853. 
Oxybaphus multiflorus Torr. Ann. Lyc. N.Y. 2: 237, 1827. 
Allionia multiflora Eaton, Man. ed, 6.11. 1833. 
Nyctaginia ? Torreyana Choisy, i in DC. Prodr. 132: 430. 1849. 
Mirabilis multiflora A. Gray, in Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. Surv. 173. 1859. 
Quamoclidion multiflorum glandulosum Standley, Contr. U.S. Nat. Herb. 12: 359. 1909. 
Quamoclidion multi florum obtusum Standley, Contr. U.S. Nat. Herb. 12: 359. 1909, 
Mirabilis multiflora glandulosa F. Macbr. Contr. Gray Herb. 49: 49. 1917. 
Mirabilis multiflora obtusa F. Macbr. Contr. Gray Herb. 49: 49. 1917. 
Plants erect or ascending, 3-6 dm. high, much branched, often forming clumps a meter 
in diameter, the branches usually stout, densely leafy, glaucous or glaucescent, obscurely 
puberulent or finely short-villous and viscid, often glabrate; petioles slender or stout, 0.4-3.5 
em. long; leaf-blades broadly ovate-deltoid to reniform-orbicular or ovate-oblong, 2.5-7.5 cm. 
long, 1.5-7.5 cm. wide, cordate to rounded at the base and often short-decurrent, broadly 
rounded and apiculate to very acute at the apex, thick and succulent, glaucescent, glabrous to 
puberulent or short-villous and viscid or glandular-puberulent; peduncles slender or stout, 
0.5-6 em. long, solitary in the axils and cymosely clustered at the ends of the branches, the 
leaves of the inflorescence reduced; involucre campanulate, usually 6-8 flowered, 1.6-3.5 cm. 
long, glabrous, glandular-puberulent, or short-villous and viscid, green or tinged with red, 
