BUCKWHEAT FAMILY 3 



the inner less so; achenes scabrous on the angles of the beak-like apex, otherwise glabrous and 

 shining. 



Open hills and plains, Sonoran Zones; plains of the upper San Joaquin Valley and on the adjoining foothills 

 of the southern Sierra Nevada and Inner Coast Ranges, California. Type locality: Hollister Ranch, Cholame 

 Valley, Monterey County, California. April-June. 



5. LASTARRIAEA Remy in Gay, Fl. Chil.. 5: 289. pi. 58. 1849. 



A small diffuse fragile annual. Leaves linear, basal and in whorls at the nodes, the 

 upper reduced to bracts and ending in a hooked awn. Flowers solitary in the axils of the 

 whorl or bracts. Calyx coriaceous, tubular, 5-6-cleft to the middle, the narrow teeth rigid, 

 recurved and uncinate. Stamens 3, inserted in the calyx throat; filaments very short, with 

 small membranous appendages at their insertions. Achene triangular; embryo curved. 

 [Name in honor of J. V. Lastarria, a Chilean writer of the 19th century.] 



A Chilean genus with one or two species. 



1. Lastarriaea chilensis Remy. Lastarriaea. Fig. 1304. 



Lastarriaea chilensis Remy in Gay, Fl. Chil. 5: 290. pi. 58. 1849. 

 Chorizanthe Lastarriaea Parry, Proc. Davenp. Acad. 4: 63. 1884. 

 Lastarriaea chilensis subsp. californica H. Gross, Bot. Jahrb. 49: 345. 1913. 

 Chorizanthe Lastarriaea var. californica Goodman, Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 21: 33. 1934. 



Stems branching from the base, the branches procumbent or ascending, 5-15 cm. long, hirsute. 

 Basal leaves linear, obtuse, 1-2 cm. long, hispid-ciliate, the cauline in whorls of 4-5, unequal ; 

 bracts 3-6 mm. long concealing the flowers, uncinate; calyx 2-3 mm. long, the tube triquetrous, 

 5-toothed, 3 of the teeth long, 2 short ; anthers orbicular, small. 



Sandy soils, Sonoran Zones; Contra Costa and Mono Counties, California, to Lower California; also Chile 

 from whence it was probably introduced into California. Type locality : Chile. June-Sept. 



