B34 CUN alt L1UNS TO WESi iL. BULANY 
Iresine obtusa n. sp. No. 27360, Borrego ranch, 
Laguna mts. L. Cal. Sept. 2419390. A tall and climbing shrub 
with the habit of 1. interrupta, but leaves oblong-ovate and trun- 
cate or rounded at tip and cuneate below into a margined and 
short petiole, entire. Whole plant perfectly smooth. Inflores- 
cence a terminal and very compound panicle leafy below, of innu- 
merable white racemes, the flowers with obtuse papery bracts, 
Iresine pulchella n. sp. Cayuca ranch, Sierra Gigan- 
ta mts. L, Cal. Oct, 23 1930, A divaricately branched shrub with 
gray bark and many ovate to lanceolate panicles 4-6 inches long 
which are white-woolly. Leaves deltoid-ovate, cordate, acutish, 
1 inch long entire, rather thick, slightly veiny below, green above 
butslightly pubescent, densely white-woolly below with branched 
aira, on a stout petiole 4 mm. long. Flowers in compound pan- 
icles, nearly sessile in dense clusters of 6-8 flowers which are ra- 
cemose on the branches. Bracts very thin and hyaline, acutish, 
Inclined to be smooth above, 
diffuse and branching habit much accentuated so that the plants 
form airy masses 4 ft, in diameter, but ultimate branches not as 
filiform as in trichopodum, Involucres the same, but less deeply 
indented. Flowers the same but segments inclined to be triangu- 
lar-oblong and pubescent or puberulent only on the midrib inl 
with margius white, hyaline and broad. Whole plant yellowish, 
but stems glaucous, Leaves densely strigose throughout, mostly 
round, rarely ovate, with Conspicuous deltoid base, about 1 inch, 
ung. Growing in rocky places froma woody basa, 
ueda raimosissima(Stand1.) Dondia ram. Stand. 
ie Fl, This grows in saline places No- 27558 Loreto Nov 1 
_ Allionia and Commicapus Standley. It is interesting to see 
him back in the ranks of sensible botany again, abandoning his 
untenable genus. He seems different from Rydberg who was al- 
ways a mule in sticking to blunders after he had made them. 
See Field Mus, 2 3, 
Dry at 
that Coulter got species of Drymaria in Mollugo. The descrip- 
and sharp or acerose sepals. 
without upiculation or nerves, and with conspicuous and hyaline 
