leaves oval-o\^ate, tapering into a slender petiole as long as 

 the blade, mostly entire but rarely with a few teeth, 1-2 inches 

 long; upper stem leaves linear-oblong and acute, sessile, 1-1 ^'^ 

 inches long, rarely with a few teeth, inclined to be ashy and 

 minutely pubescent, especially on the upper leaves; inflor- 

 escence pruinose-pubescent, 2-6 inches long, verticillate- 

 spicate and dense, leafy-bracted below with triangular-ovate 

 and auricled bracts; flowering pedicels very short, in fruit 

 slender and 2-4 lines long, erect; whorls with 3-8 flowers; 

 tlowers red, about 5 lines long, narrowly funnel-form, 3 lines 

 wide at the slightly spreading small and rounded lobes, as- 

 cending, when dry they have a purplish tint; lobes of flowers 

 \y2 lines long and wide, the lower ones a little longer; calyx 

 lobes lanceolate-acuminate, 4 lines long and like the stem and 

 pedicels purplish and with glutinous and very short hairs; 

 })ods ovate not equaling the marginless calyx lobes, 3 lines 

 long; sterile filament enlarged at the tip and inordinately 

 bearded nearly to the base with yellow hairs; anthers white. 

 This grows in clefts of the rocks, at 4000 feet altitude, in the 

 Tropical Life Zone at Kelso, California, May 2, 1906. 



Pentstcmcn calcareus n. sp. 



Section Genuini near the puniceus group, probably near- 

 est to P. spectabihs: densely caespitose and much branched 

 from a woody base, about 6 inches high with spreading stems. 

 The plants forming open mats 1-2 feet in diameter; all but 

 uppermost leaves on broad margined petioles about half as 

 long as the oval-ovate mdstly folded and acute, thick, spinu- 

 lose-toothed blade which is about 9 lines long and light green; 

 plant appears smooth, but is minutely ashy-pubescent ; inflor- 

 escence appears smooth and oily, but is minutely glutinous, 

 hairy and dark ; uppermost leaves sessile, but not clasping; 

 bracts very small but green and triangular; inflorescence 

 about 2 mches long, loose, thyrsoid-panicled, the main panicle 

 with two accessory ones coming from the top pair of leaves, 

 which are 6-8 hnes long, these are crowned with two green 

 bracts and 3-5 pedicels, of which all but the central one are 

 bractcd m the middle and often branched; these pedicels in 

 flower are nearly black and 2-4 lines long, filiform and rather 

 wideb' spreadmg at base; flowers deep pink drving to purple, 

 about 9 hnes long, narrowly campanulate to 'the tip of the 

 ton of fln ^'^ the tube abruptly narrows and is 2-Z lines long, 

 top of flower at base of lobes 3 lines wide, the two lower lobes 



