48 CONTRIBUTIONS TO WESTERN BOTANY 
sparingly stellate-pubescent. Leaves quite thin, Fruit termini, 
ingle short staminate spike an inch long,with a few pistil- 
late flowers at base. Pods 7 mm. high, depressed-globose, closely 
and finely stellate-pubescent, Seeds olive-colored. 4 mm. by 5 
mm., oval, a little flattened on one side and rounded on the other, 
rather truncate below. 
oton crenulatus n. sp. No. 27499, Cayuca ranch, 
Sierra Giganta, Oct. 23 1930. A moderately stout and erect shrub 
‘with short branches, and smooth and gray bark, the young twigs 
yellowish-white with dense and pseudo-stellate hairs Leaves 
thickish, nearly oval, rounded to subcordate below, inclined to be 
w little triangular at tip but barely ever acute, crenulate through- 
out, rather densely puberulent below with soft hairs from a raised 
_ dase in radiating clusters of 5-10 as if stellate but not really so, 
Pods rounded, densely puberulent, 12 mm. wide by 10 mm. high, 
mostly single and mostly sessile at the ends of the branches, the 
plunts apparently dimcious. Seeds dark-colored, 7 mm. b 
mm. and 6 mm, thick, about oval, but a little truncate below, 
finely and shortly felted and ‘emooth, } inch by 4 inch thick, 
single, with the very large seeds single in each cell and pictorially 
short ones at base. Leaves 3-4 inches wide by 4-6 long. Inflores- 
ah enc nate spike with : 
- #ruits globose, shaggy-hairy, abou 
! . Seeds and inclined to be mottled along 
the center of the back, rounded at both ends, somewhat flattened, 
. 
mm., grayish, 
