MISCELLANEOUS NEW SPECIES. 153 



they are very distinct species, and, in appearance, not much 

 like their nearest relatives, 31./oliom and 31. insidaris of other 

 islands lying to the southward. They have not comeliness 

 or even cleanliness to recommend them, yet make a valua- 

 ble accession to an interesting genus; but the following- 

 may perhaps be reckoned a still more welcome discovery, 

 or rather, rediscovery. 



Malacothrix inx'ana, Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. Am. ii. 486; 

 Gray. Bot. Cal. i. 434; Syn. Fl. 423. Scanty specimens 

 were obtained by Nuttall, just fift}^ years ago, on an "Island 

 in the Bay of San Diego," and no more has been seen or 

 heard of the species until this year. A Malacothrix answer- 

 ing perfectly to the description published is abundant on 

 San Miguel, the smallest and remotest of the Santa Barbara 

 group of islands. But I met with it first on the western ex- 

 tremity of Santa Cruz, where it w^as growing in small quan- 

 tity, on a shaded sandstone terrace a little above the beach. 



Calais Clevelandi. — Calais Farriji, Greene, page 49 of 

 this volume, not of Gray. 



Dr. Parry has shown me that my plant described in the 

 last number of the Bulletin cannot be the species so named 

 by Gray. I had entirely overlooked the statement of that 

 author, that, in C. Parryi, the awns are twice or thrice 

 longer than the palese; and I here dedicate what now ap- 

 pears plainly a new species, to my esteemed friend, Mr. 

 Cleveland of San Diego, who was I think the first collector 

 of it. 



DowNiNGiA CONCOLOR. Slender, diftlisely branching, 4 — 6 

 inches high, minutely puberulent under a lens : tube of the 

 corolla turbinate, nearly as long as the limb, cleft from the 

 base of the upper lip one third of the way down; lobes of 

 the upper lip lanceolate, deflexed and appressed to the 

 sides of the tube: flower blue throughout, the central part 

 of the lower lip dark, surrounded by a narrow border 

 which is paler than the deep sky-blue of all the other parts. 



