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mm. long, not persistent in fruit, the lower similar, 2.6-3.3 mm. 

 long. Wings purplish (fide Davidson), obovate, rounded at apex, 

 cuneate at base, finely ciliolate but otherwise glabrous, finely reti- 

 culate-veined, 8.5 mm. long, 4.2 mm. wide. Keel yellow (fide 

 Davidson), 8 mm. long, its beak short, curved, 0.7 mm. long. Upper 

 petals oblong, slightly retuse at apex, porrect, 8 mm. long. Capsule 

 suborbicular, obliquely rounded at base, emarginulate at the 

 slightly narrowed apex, 7.5 mm. long, 8.5 mm. wide. Seed 5 mm. 

 long, pilose. Aril 4 mm. long; corneous umbo conic, obtuse, loosely 

 pilose, 3 mm. long; scarious border 1 mm. deep, loose, irregularly 

 dentate-lobulate. Parry! Proc. Davenp. Acad. Nat. Sci. iv. 39 

 (1884) ; (P. Fischiae) Chod. Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. 898 (1896), where 

 referred to P. calif ornica Nutt. Lower California : near Sauzal, 

 Todos Santos Bay, 1882, Miss Fanny E. Fish (type coll.: GK); 

 near Todos Santos Bay, 30 Sept, 1884, Orcntt 1223 (G). Also 

 California: Santa Anita Canyon, Los Angeles Co., Sept. 1883, 

 Nevin 849 (G); Sierra Madre Range, Los Angeles Co., July 

 1893, Davidson (G). T. 2. Fig. 52. 



90. P. nitida Brandegee. Frutescent, branching, decumbent, 

 the stem and branches finely incurved-puberulous, 9-20 cm. long. 

 Lower leaves elliptic, cuspidate at the rounded apex, cuneate- 

 rounded at base, reticulate (lateral veins ca. 4 pairs), shining, gla- 

 brous or very sparsely incurved-puberulous on midnerve beneath, 

 1-2 cm. long, 7.5-12.5 mm. wide, on petioles 1 mm. long, the lowest 

 similar but smaller, the upper gradually more oblong or obovate- 

 oblong, 11-15 mm. long, 4-5 mm. wide. Racemes extra-axillary, 

 3-9-flowered, 1.5-3.5 cm. long, the axis slightly geniculate, the 

 bracts and much smaller bractlets persistent, minute, lance-subu- 

 late, sparsely ciliolate. Flowers rose-color, 5.5 mm. long. Upper 

 sepal ovate, obtusish, sparsely ciliolate, persistent, 3 mm. long; 

 the lower sepals oblong, acutish, slightly oblique, rosy-tinged, 

 sparsely ciliolate, 2.6 mm. long. Wings rose-color, oblong-obovate, 

 acutish at the mucronulate apex, cuneate at base, veiny (the veins 

 ending free), glabrous, 5.5 mm. long, 3.3 mm. wide. Keel yellowish, 

 saccate near middle, 5.5 mm. long, the blunt slightly descending 

 beak 1.5 mm. long. Upper petals oblong, rounded at apex, 4.5 mm. 

 long. Capsule oval, emarginate, slightly stipitate, obliquely sub- 

 re ticulate-striate, sparsely incurved-puberulous especially along sep- 

 tum, 4 mm. long, 2.7 mm. wide. Seed pilosulous, 3 mm. long. Aril 



