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internodes short or elongate: petioles slender, 1-3 cm. long, puberulent or glabrate; leaf-blades 
ovate-oblong, ovate-orbicular, deltoid-ovate, or elliptic-oblong, 1.5~3.5 em. long, 0.7-2.5 em. 
wide, subcordate to obtuse at the base, rounded or obtuse at the apex, entire, thick and succu- 
lent, often glaucescent beneath, minutely puberulent or glabrate; peduncles slender, 2-5 cm. 
long, viscid-puberulent; bracts broadly ovate or oval, 5-10 mm. long, 4-5 mm. wide, acute or 
attenuate, scarious, whitish, viscid-puberulent; flowers numerous, the perianth 13-18 mm. 
long, viscid-puberulent, the tube slender, the limb about 5 mm. broad; fruit turbinate, about 
5 mm. long, subcoriaceous stramineous or olivaceous, finely puberulent, usually deeply 5-lobed, 
the lobes compressed, truncate and flat above; seed elliptic-oblong, 2.5 mm. long, brown. 
TYPE LocaLtry: Emery, Utah, at an altitude of 2100 meters. 
DIstTRIBUTION: Southern Utah and adjacent Nevada and Arizona. 
ILLUSTRATION: Contr. U.S. Nat. Herb. 12: pl. 31, f. 2. 
25. Abronia Carletoni Coult. & Fisher, Bot. Gaz. 17: 349. 1892. 
Abronia turbinata Carletoni M. E. Jones, Contr. West. Bot. 10: 44. 1902. 
Abronia Nealleyi Standley, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 12: 323. 1909. 
Perennial; stems few or numerous, ascending or procumbent, 1.5-5 dm. long, stout or 
slender, whitish, viscid-puberulent, sparsely or copiously branched, the internodes elongate; 
petioles slender, 1-2 cm. long, puberulent; leaf-blades elliptic to lanceolate or ovate-oblong, 
1.5-2.5 cm. long, 0.4-1 cm. wide, obtuse to very acute at the base, obtuse to attenuate 
at the apex, entire or subsinuate, thick and succulent, concolorous, puberulent or glabrate; 
peduncles slender, 2-5 cm. long, viscid-puberulent; bracts ovate or oval-ovate, 5-8 mm. long, 
3-4 mm. wide, acute or attenuate, scarious, whitish, viscid-puberulent; flowers numerous, the 
perianth 13-15 mm. long, viscid-puberulent or short-villous, the tube slender, the limb 6-7 
mm. broad, white; fruit biturbinate, 4-5 mm. long, subcoriaceous, brownish-olivaceous or 
stramineous, short-villous or puberulent, usually deeply 5-lobed, the lobes compressed, coarsely 
reticulate-veined, narrowed or subtruncate above and compressed at the apex; seed elliptic- 
oblong, 2 mm. long, nearly black, lustrous. 
TYPE LocaLIty: Eastern Colorado. 
DisrRiBuTION: Eastern Colorado to western Texas. 
ILLUSTRATION: Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 12: pl. 41, f. 1. 
VI. Turbinatae. Erect or prostrate annuals of interior valleys and hillsides, with elongate 
branched stems. Leaf-blades variable in outline, often very unequal at the base. Bracts 
usually small and narrow. Perianth purplish-red or often white inside and reddish outside. 
Fruit shallowly or deeply lobed, the lobes often much compressed. 
26. Abronia angustifolia Greene, Pittonia 3: 344. 1898. 
Abronia mellifera Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. Surv, 170. 1859. Not A. mellifera Dougl. 1829. 
Abronia turbinata Torr.: S. Wats. Bot. King’s Expl. 285, in part. 1871. 
Abronia turbinata stenophylla Heimerl, Ann. Cons. Jard. Genéve 5: 190. 1901. 
Abronia avizonica Standley, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 12: 319. 1909. 
Abronia lobatifolia Standley, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 12: 319. 1909. 
Abronia Torreyi Standley, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 12: 319. 1909. 
Annual, much branched, the branches stout or slender, ascending or decumbent, 1-5 dm. 
long, densely viscid-puberuJent or short-villous; petioles slender, 1-7.5 em. long; leaf-blades 
very variable in outline, mostly ovate-oblong or lance-oblong, sometimes broadly ovate-oval, 
oval, deltoid, lanceolate, or narrowly lance-oblong, 1.5-5 cm. long, 0.5-3 cm. wide, subcordate 
to narrowly cuneate at the base, obtuse to attenuate at the apex, entire or undulate, 
rarely shallowly lobed, viscid-puberulent or glabrate, often glaucescent beneath; peduncles 
2-7 em. long, viscid-puberulent or densely viscid-villous; bracts lanceolate or lance-linear, 
6-12 mm. long, attenuate or long-attenuate, greenish, viscid-puberulent; perianth 15-20 mm. 
long, viscid-villous or puberulent outside, the limb 6-8 mm. wide, purplish-red; fruit about 
6 mm. long, broadly turbinate, deeply lobed, thin-walled, villous above, the lobes acutish, 
ending above in flat disks; seed lance-oblong, 1.5-2 mm. long, deep-brown or black, lustrous. 
PE LOCALITY: White Sands, Otero County, New Mexico. | ; ; 
ee In sandy soil, ‘western Texas to southern Arizona, southward in Chihuahua. 
InLusrrations: Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 12: pl. 37, 38. 
