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being, C. Hillmann can be retained in varietal rank. The type 
of C. gracilis came from Glenwood Springs in the mountains of 
Colorado and it is entirely possible that the differences detected 
are environmental in origin. Among California cryptanthas, 
C. Hillmanii can be recognized by its single smooth nutlet and 
usually fulvous, ——- pilose and inconspicuously bristly “— 
v Panctomon Munzii Johnston, sp. nov. 
Plants with several coarse, erect, loosely tufted glabrate stems 
that become at least five dm. high; leaves all opposite, entire and 
glabrate; basal leaves ovate. or Tanicecla te: spatulate with winged 
petioles that about equal the blade, becoming 7 cm. long and 
2.5 cm. wide; the lower cauline leaves oblanceolate, the upper 
ones broadly sessile and lanceolate, while the leaves of the in- 
florescence are minute and linear-subulate; inflorescence narrow, 
the flowers in strict one- to three-flowered cymules; corolla bright 
red, 2 cm. long, narrowly funnelform-tubular, evenly though but 
slightly ampliated upward, strongly and conspicuously keyed 
glabrous within; upper two lobes of the corolla erect, about 
long, united foi about two-thirds of their length, lower hee 
lobes of the corolla strongly reflexed, about 6 mm. long, united 
for nearly ‘half their length; anther-sacs glabrous, iia apets rugu- 
lose or papillose, adnate if at all only near the base, ovate-oblong, 
2-2.5 mm. long, their inner sides paralleling each other or forming 
a small angle; dehiscent by a slit extending between two-thirds 
and three-fourths the way to the base, sharply dentate along the 
line of dehiscence; sterile filament glabrous, somewhat flattened, 
emarginate; sepals broadly ovate, acute, 3-5 mm. long, scarious 
margined; pedicels about as long as the sepals; fruit unknown. 
Known only from the type specimen, collected in May, 1920, 
Munz, Johnston, & Harwood 4271, on a high exposed ridge in the 
pinyon belt near the Bonanza King Mine on the east slope of the 
Providence Mountains, Southeastern California. The type is 
No. 7534 in the Baker Herbarium of Pomona College. 
Certainly of the Barbati and probably nearest P. barbatus 
Torreyi (Benth.) Gray, but very different from it in its color, 
which is a brighter, lighter, and more yellowish red, in the meas- 
urements of the corolla, and in the size as well as non-divergence 
of the anther-sacs. P. Munzii is a lower, stouter, and less grace- 
ful plant than most of the forms of P. barbatus (Cav.) Roth. 
From P. Eatoni Gray and from P. subulatus Jones, the other 
two red penstemons found in this part of the desert area, both of | 
