264 ABRAMS: FLORA OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 
about Pasadena, and from these observations I am convinced that 
Grinnell’s specimens were from merely abnormai stunted shrubs. 
The chamiso is fairly common there, and is normally quite typical 
A, fasciculatum. 
“Xanthoxalis californica sp. nov. 
Perennial from a stout woody root, bearing many rather stout 
branching woody rootstocks at the crown; stems decumbent, 
tufted at the ends of the rootstocks, 1-3 dm. long, very sparingly 
and loosely villous; leaflets pale-green, villous; cyme only 
1-flowered or mostly 2—-flowered, scarcely exceeding the leaves ; 
pedicels 1-2 cm. long, somewhat sparsely appressed-pubescent ; 
sepals obovate-oblong, ciliate on the margin above, 5 mm. long; 
petals yellow, 8-10 mm. long, glabrous ; longer stamens glabrous ; 
styles persistent, very slender, 3-4 mm. long; capsule colum- 
nar, 10-15 mm. long, on more or less reflexed pedicels ; seeds 
strongly rugose. 
Related to X¥. Wrightii*of New Mexico and Arizona, with which 
it has been confused, but that species is densely villous-pubescent, 
decidedly glaucous, and has very short, stout styles. 
Dry hillsides in the chaparral region of Southern California. 
Type collected by the author (3274) in the Onofre Mountains, San 
Diego County, April 19, 1903. 
/ Malvastrum viscidum sp. nov. 
Annual or possibly sometimes more persistent, 5-10 dm. high, 
herbage short-stellate-pubescent throughout, somewhat ferrugin- 
ous, viscid-glandular and heavy-scented ; leaves on petioles 15-20 
mm. long, nearly orbicular, deeply cordate, 2—4 cm. broad, coarsely 
crenate ; veins prominent beneath ; upper surface rugose, appea! 
ing almost glabrous; flowers in interrupted spicate clusters ; calyx 
campanulate, 5-7 mm. broad, its lobes broadly lanceolate, slightly 
acuminate, about equaling the tube; petals reddish, turning put 
ple with age, 15 mm. long ; styles pubescent at base, 9 mm. long, 
equaled by the stamens ; immature carpels pubescent at apex, not 
reticulate on the sides. 
A close relative of WV. densiflorum S. Wats., but much less vil- 
lous and more glandular ; leaves less deeply lobed, and calyx-lobes 
much shorter. Type collected by the author (3528) on dry hill- 
ve copa Wrightii (A. Gray). Oxalis Wrightii A. Gray, Pl. Wright. ¥° 
PR . 
