PLANTS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. 95 



is clearly of the former section. It is a pleasure to give it the name 

 of its discoverer, whose explorations have made numerous interesting 

 additions to the Southern California flora. 



Qilia (Leptodactylon) tenuiloba. Stems slender, sublignes- 

 cent below, puberulent, 8-10 cm. high, few-branched near the 

 ends; leaves alternate, not longer (5-10 mm.) than the internodes, 

 palmately 3-parted, or becoming pinnate with 1-2 pair of lateral 

 divisions, in either form the central division 2-3 times longer than 

 the laterals, all the divisions linear, or very narrowly spatulately 

 enlarged above, pungent, the leaves on the ultimate branchlets 

 undivided ; flowers solitary, terminating the branchlets ; calyx 6-8 

 mm. long, the sinuses hyaline membranaceous, the linear green ribs 

 prolonged into simrt, nearly equal, acerose teeth ; corolla funnel- 

 form, light yellow ; tube slender, 10-13 mm. long, slightly enlarged 

 at the throat ; lobes as long as the tube, linear oblong ; anthers 

 ii)icluded, ovate, 1 mm. long, on filaments of the same length, 

 inserted near the base of the throat ; styles 2 mm. long, stigma 

 lobes 3 mm. long; ovary oblong, acute; ovules about 6 in each 

 cell. 



San Jacinto Mountains, probably in Tanquitz Valley, July, 

 1880, 689 Parish. 



Oreocarya leucoph^a confertiflora. 0. eonfertiflora Greene, 

 Pitt. iii. 1 12. Arid hillsides on the desert slope of the San Bernardino 

 Mountains, from Cushenberry Springs, alt. 4,500 ft., to Rose mine 

 and Bear Valley, alt. 6,500 ft. The subcapitate inflorescence of the 

 type specimen of 0. confertiflora was exceptional. Normally the 

 inflorescence is glomerate-spicate, precisely as in 0. leucophsea, from 

 which the present variety is distinguished by its broad, depressed 

 nutlets, those of the species being acute. Dr. Purpus has collected 

 the same plant in the Argus Mountains of Inyo County. 



Oreocarya abortiva, Greene, Pitt. iii. 114. Common on dry, 

 gravelly slopes in open pine forests, at Bear Valley, in the San 

 Bernardino Mountains. The whole plant more or less sparsely 

 hispid, as well as silky canescent; nutlets usually all 4 maturing, 

 and then loosely connivent, and less incurved than wiien by abortion 

 solitary ; their dorsal surfaces entirely smooth. Originally character- 



