502 MALVACEAE 



of the empty scarious apex, thin-walled or siibsearious, deeply reticulate on the 

 sides, the areola often dai-k-colored; seed 1. 



Arid plains, -60 to 2700 feet : Colorado Desert. Mar.-Aug. 



Loos. — Mcloland, Parish 8097; Dixieland, Parish 9020; Imperial, T. Brandegee ; Signal 

 Mt., T. Brandegee; Calexico, Davy 70.').3 ; Coyote Wells, Newlon 404. 



Refs.— Sphaeralcea orcuttii Rose, Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. 1:289 (1893), type loc. 

 Carrizo Creek, Colorado Desert, Orcutt 2210; Jepson, Man. G34 (1925). 



13. S, eremicola Jepson. Panamint Mallow. Stems slender, erect or as- 

 cending:, several from the thick root-crown, 12 to 17 inches high, green and gla- 

 brous or nearly so; leaf -blades roundish-cordate in outline, 4 to 11 lines long, 3 to 

 5-parted with the lobes again cleft and toothed, thinly stellate-puberulent, green; 

 flowers few in a loose and narrow nearly naked panicle; calyx woolly, its tube l^/^ 

 to 2 lines long, almost as long as the fruit, the lobes lanceolate, acuminate, 4 to 5 

 lines long; bractlets filiform, about as long as calyx-tube; petals apricot-color, 7 to 



8 lines long; fruit subglobose, 3 to 4 lines wude, its carpels oblong, stellate-tomentose 

 dorsally, obscurely reticulate on lower portion of sides, 2^/4 lines long. 



Desert washes, 4000 to 4400 feet : Panamint Range, Inyo Co. May. 



Tax. note. — This species is only slightly known but probably occurs elsewhere in the arid 

 region east of the Sierra Nevada. It is related to S. incana Torr. of Arizona and may be the 

 same as the plant referred to under that name by Greene, Fl. Fr. 110. 



Ref. — Sphaeralcea eremicola Jepson, Man, 635 (1925), type loc. Emigrant Canon, Pana- 

 mint Range, Jepson 7120. 



14. S. angnstifolia Don var. cuspidata Gray. Valley Nigger Weed. Stems 

 many from the base, 3 to 4 feet high; herbage finely puberulent, the older stems 

 and upper side of leaves glabrate; leaf -blades oblong- to linear-lanceolate, some- 

 times with 1 more or less obscure lobe at the basal angle on each side, minutely and 

 irregularly crenulate, % to 3 inches long; flowers in few-flowered clusters in the 

 axils of the upper leaves; calyx-lobes ovate, acuminate, 2 lines long; corolla saffron- 

 red, 3 to 4 (or 6) lines long; fruit globose, 2 to 3 lines wide, the sides of the carpels 

 smooth above, reticulate below, usually with an erect cusp at apex. 



Desert plains, -20 to 1500 feet : Colorado Desert. East to Kansas and Texas, 

 south to Mexico. Aug.-Oct. 



Locs. — Gruendyke Well, Chuckwalla Valley, Jaeger 1174; betw. Dos Palmas and Mecca, 

 L. J. Childs; Indio, Parish 8319. 



Var. gavisus Jepson var. n. Herbage stellate-tomentulose ; leaf -blades broadly lanceolate 

 to ovate but 3-lobed with the lateral lobes reduced or obsolete and the middle lobe much elongated, 

 1 to 2^4 inches long, the margin irregularly serrate; inflorescence leafy; corolla pale pink, 7 to 



9 lines long. — (Herbae stellati-tomentosae; folia late lanceolata vel ovata, 3-lobata, lobis laterali- 

 bus reductis vel obsoletis, lobo terminale elongatissimo, unc. 1-2^/4 longo, margine irregulariter 

 serrate; inflorescentia foliosa; corolla albido-punicea, lin. 7-9 longa.) — Colorado River Valley: 

 Bard, Jepson 5297 (type). 



Refs. — Sphaeralcea angustifolia Don, Gen. Syst. 1:465 (1831). Malva angustifoUa Cav. 

 Diss. 2:64, t. 20, fig. 3 (1790), type from Mexico; Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 2839 (1827). Sphaeroma 

 angustifolia Schlecht. Linnaea 11:353 (1837), Var. cuspidata Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 22:293 

 (1887) ; Jepson, Man. 635 (1925). Sida stellata Torr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. 2:171 (1828), type loc. 

 "sources of the Arkansas" (River), James; not S. stellata Cav. (1790). Sphaeralcea stellata T. & 

 G. Fl. 1:228 (1838). S. cuspidata Britt.; Britt. & Br. 111. Fl. 3:519 (1898). Phymosia cuspidata 

 Britt.; Britt. & Br. 111. Fl. ed. 2, 2:522 (1913). Var. gavisus Jepson. 



15. S. fendleri Gray var. californica Parish. Lance Mallow. Stems erect, 

 branching, finely puberulent but soon glabrate, 1^/2 to 3 feet high; leaf -blades 

 lanceolate or lanceolate-linear to ovate-oblong, 3-lobed, cordate, subhastate or 

 obtuse at base, crenate or subentire, gray-pubescent, upper surface green and 

 often glabrate, % to 3^/2 inches long; panicle elongated, narrow, the bracts folia- 

 ceous, linear-oblong and conspicuous or much reduced; corolla red or bright terra- 

 cotta, 4 to 6 lines long; carpels minutely apiculate, 2^ lines long; seeds more or 

 less short-hirsute. 



