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hirsute : calyx lobes triangular-subulate, about 1.5 mm. broad at 

 base by 5 to (5 mm. long ; petals oblong-oblanceolate, tapering to 

 a bluntly aeute apex, equalling the calyx lobes; staminodia 

 none ; stamens 9 to 13, shorter than the calyx ; filaments ex- 

 panded at base only, or almost to the apex, to a width of about 

 .5 mm.; anthers small, about as broad as long; placentae 3. 

 broad, iieshy ; ovules about one-half imbedded in the placenta) ; 

 style cleft for about one-third its length, equalling the stamens; 

 capsule oblong, 8 to 10 mm. long, its pedicel reflexed at the 

 apex ; seeds about 10 or 12 in each capsule, gray, somewhat 

 compressed, angularly obovate or pyriform, slightly constricted 

 below the middle, and with a deep transverse groove on either 

 face along this line, muriculate throughout. 



This plant appears not to be closely related to any known 

 species of Mentzelia. It resembles in its petals, stamens, and 

 seeds M. torreyi, and in the last of these organs M. tricaspis and 

 its allies. Its characteristic external features are its diffusely 

 branched but stiff habit, its flowers scattered in the forks of the 

 stem, and its reflexed fruiting pedicels. Its seeds resemble those 

 of M. tricuspis. 



Type specimen in the United States National Herbarium, No. 

 709, Death Valley Expedition; collected April 21, 1891, in Sur- 

 prise Canon, Panamint Mountains, California, by Frederick V. 

 Coville and Frederick Funston. 



Phacelia perityloides sp. nov. 



Suffrutescent perennial 10 to 20 cm. high, diffusely branched, 

 densely leafy; stem, as well as branches, leaves, and calyx, 

 viscid with glandular hairs, or at the base densely villous- 

 tomentose; leaves alternate; petiole 7 to 15 mm. long ; blade 

 orbicular with truncate to cordate base, crenate-dentate or even 

 lobed, 7 to 12 mm. in diameter, the hairs shorter than on the 

 stem and petiole ; flowers in loose racemes terminating the 

 branches ; pedicels 3 to 5 mm. long ; calyx about 4 mm. long, 

 the lobes oblong-spatulate, obtuse; corolla cream-white, spar- 

 ingly glandular-hairy, twice as long as the calyx, its narrowly 

 campanulate tube longer than the calyx and its short orbicular 

 lobes abruptly spreading; appendages 10 semilanceolate vertical 

 lamellae free from the filaments ; the 3 veins of each corolla lobe 

 continuing distinct to the base of the tube ; stamens included 



