BORAGE FAMILY 581 



or dark with pale tubercles ; gynobase subulate, about equaling the 3 consimilar nutlets ; style much 

 surpassing the nutlets. 



Sandy flats or rocky ridges, Lower Sonoran Zone; Inyo County, California, south to northeastern 

 Lower California and east to southern Nevada and Mohave and Yuma Counties, Arizona. Type locality: 

 Mesquite Station, Imperial County, California. March-June. 



3. Cryptantha inaequata I. M. Johnston. Panamint Cryptantha. Fig. 4267. 



Cryptantha inaequata I. M. Johnston, Univ. Calif. Pub. Bot. 7: 444. 1922. 

 Johnstonella inaequata Brand, Rep. Spec. Nov. 21:250. 1925. 



Stems erect or ascending, 3-4 dm. high, branched throughout or sometimes the basal 

 branches elongated and simple or nearly so, strigose and bristly with slender spreading hairs. 

 Leaves linear or the lower narrowly oblanceolate, 1.5^ cm. long, 1-4 mm. wide, hispid or 

 strigose, pustulate, especially underneath ; spikes mostly geminate, 4-8 cm. long, loosely or 

 rather densely flow^ered, bractless or rarely with 1 or 2 small bracts; corolla minute, tube 1-2 

 mm. long, limb 1.5-2.5 mm. broad: fruiting calyx stiffly ascending, ovoid-oblong, 3-4 cm. long, 

 distinctly biseriate, sessile or nearly so; calyx-lobes rigid, slightly connivent, hispid on the 

 thickened midrib, villous-ciliate on the margins ; nutlets 4, heteromorphous, brown with pale 

 tubercles, about 1 mm. long, odd one similar in color but a little longer and more persistent; 

 gynobase columnar, equaling the 3 consimilar nutlets ; style a little exceeding or equaling the 



odd nutlet. 



Desert slopes, Sonoran Zones; eastern Mojave Desert, Inyo and San Bernardino Counties, California. 

 Type locality: Pleasant Canyon, Panamint Mountains, Inyo County, California. March-May. 



Cryptantha saxorum Jepson, Fl. Calif. 3:345. 1943. Stem widely branching from the base, 5-7 cm. 

 high spreading-hispid. Leaves lanceolate, 8-24 mm. long, the hairs on the upper surface pustulate at base; 

 spikes dense 1-2 cm. long, conspicuously bracteate; calyx short-bristly, densely tufted with white hairs at 

 base; corolla-limb 1 mm. wide; nutlets 4, equal, ovoid, light brown, thinly papillate both sides, the vetitral 

 side convexly 2-planed, ventral groove closed with forked areole at base. Known only from the type collection: 

 "lava hill 1 mile sw. of Bicycle Lake, near Tiefort Mt., Mohave Desert." 



4. Cryptantha costata Brandg. Ribbed Cryptantha. Fig. 4268. 



Cryptantha costata Brandg. Bot. Gaz. 27: 453. 1899. 



Cryptantha seorsa J. F. Macbride, Contr. Gray Herb. No. 48:46. 1916. 



Annual, stems stout, branched throughout, 1-2 dm. high, whitish-canescent with strigose- 

 villous pubescence, and somewhat hispid, especially on the branches. Leaves hnear to nar- 

 rowly lanceolate, 1-3 cm. long, often becoming more or less convolute, villous-stngose above, 

 short-hispid and pustulate beneath; racemes spike-like, rather rigid, 2-5 cm. long, sparsely 

 bracteate, rather densely flowered ; corolla about 2 mm. long, lobes broad and ascendmg ; fruit- 

 ing calyx 4-6 mm. long, oblong-ovoid, its lobes linear-lanceolate, somewhat connivent above the 

 nutlets' but the tips slightly spreading, hispid on the thickened midrib; nutlets 4, similar or 1 

 slightly larger than the others, barely 2 mm. long, narrowly trianguar, strongly convex on the 

 back, inconspicuously rugulose or verrucose, the margins sharp or narrowly wmged ; groove 

 dilated below into a deltoid shallow areola; gynobase subulate, equaling the nutlets; style 

 much surpassing the nutlets. 



Sandy washes and benches. Lower Sonoran Zone; Inyo County to San Diego County, California, east- 

 ward to adjacent Arizona. Type locality; Borrego Springs, San Diego County, California. teb.-May. 



5. Cryptantha angustifolia (Torr.) Greene. Narrow-leaved Cryptantha. 



Fig. 4269. 



Eritrichium angustifolium Torr. Pacif. R. Rep. 5:363. 1858. 

 Krynitzkia angustifolia A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 20: 272. 1885. 

 Cryptantha angustifolia Greene, Pittonia 1: 112. 1887. 



Stems diffusely branched from the base, 0.5-3 cm. high, villous-hispid with spreading 

 or ascending, light ashy gray hairs, the lowest branches decumbent or ascending. Leaves 

 narrowly linear, 1.5-4 cm. long, 1-2 or rarely 4 mm. wide, hispid and pustulate; spikes usually 

 geminate, about 3-5 cm. long, bractless or with 1 or 2 bracts near the base; corolla minute, 

 limb 1-2.5 mm. broad; fruiting calyx 3-4 mm. long, stiffly ascending and conspicuously biseriate, 

 subsessile; lobes linear-lanceolate, slightly connivent, hispid on the thickened midrib, short- 

 villous on the margins, lower lobe longest and more conspicuously hispid ; nutlets 4, about 1 mm. 

 long, heteromorphous, groove slightly open above broadening at base ; gynobase columnar, equal- 

 ing the 3 similar nutlets but shorter than the odd more persistent one ; style usually surpassing 

 the odd nutlet. 



Sandy or gravelly washes. Lower Sonoran Zone; Death Valley region, Inyo County, California, south 

 through the Mojave and Colorado Deserts to northeastern Lower California, east to western lexas and 

 Sonora. Type locality: Yuma, Arizona. March-June. 



6. Cryptantha utahensis (A. Gray) Greene. Scented Cryptantha. Fig. 4270. 



Eritrichium holoptcrum var. submoUc A. Gray, Proc. Amer Acad. 13:374. 1878. 

 Krynitzkia utahensis A. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. Amer. ed. 2. 2^: 427. 1886. 

 Cryptantha utahensis Greene, Pittonia 1: 120. 1887. 

 Cryptantha submollis Coville, Contr. U.S. Nat. Herb. 4: 166. 1893. 



Usually with a main erect stem with a few scattered ascending or erect branches, 1-3 dm. 

 high, strigose or appressed short-hispid. Leaves elongated below, mostly linear, 3-5 cm. long, 



