Carpenteria californica Toir. One of the most remarkable of tlie 

 narrow endemics of California this shrub is confined to a region about 

 twenty miles long in the (Sierra Nevada foothills between the canon of the San 

 Joaquin River and the Big Creek tributary of the main Kings River, mainly 

 from about 1500 to 4000 feet in altitude, a, flowering branch, XI;?', cross- 

 sect, of ovary, X 4. See page 141. Drawing by Dr. Helen M. Gilkey. (Fron- 

 tispiece.) 



