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/ 7. Castilleia disticha, sp. no v. 



Perennial, erect, 6 dm. high, branching from the base and also above with 

 generally short, slender, spreading branches; somewhat viscid and with a 

 close often somewhat scanty, cinereous pubescence mixed with longer, 

 jointed hairs. Leaves linear, acute or obtuse, the lower 4 cm. long, 3 mm. 

 wide diminishing upwards, sessile by a truncate or subaunculate base, 

 distinctly three-veined, the middle vein most conspicuous; margin entire or 

 undulate-crisped. Inflorescence spicate, elongating in fruit, especially on 

 the main stem, 1-2 dm. long; flowers after anthesis distichous, becommg 

 more or less remote, sessile or almost so, with the capsule appressed to the 

 stem the calyx and corolla persisting and spreading; bracts foliaceous, the 

 upper ones, only, colored, variously toothed, with the middle tooth longest, 

 equalling or shorter than the corolla. Calyx slightly surpassmg the corolla 

 tube about equally cleft before and behind for half the length; each division 

 tipped with red, two-cleft, with triangular, subulate, unequal lobes, 2-3 mm. 

 long, three-nerved, thin in texture, somewhat gibbous, but not broadest at 

 base Corolla red, 3 cm. long, with galea as long as the tube, truncate or 

 emarginate at apex; lower lip three-toothed, the middle tooth much smaller 

 than the lateral, separated by a broad sinus, thin, not callous. Stamens 

 exserted, filaments glabrous; anthers narrow, with unequal cells, more than 

 2 mm long. Stigma exserted from the summit of the galea, capitate. Cap- 

 sule obliquely oblong-ovate, 8-10 mm. long, chartaceous; seeds elliptical to 

 orbicular, light brown, invested with a membranous, foveolate outer coat. 



This is more closely allied to C. minor Gray and C. sten- 

 antha Gray than to any of the perennial species. Its ses- 

 sile or almost sessile flowers, more brightly colored and 

 differently shaped, together with the different habit of 

 growth, mark it as distinct. 



The type was collected by the author at Converse Basin, 

 on the trail to the south fork of Kings River, July, 1899. 

 The species is also found at Millwood, where it was col- 

 lected the same year by the author, and by Mr. T. S. Bran- 

 degee, July 19, 1892. 



v/ 8. Castilleia nana, sp. nov. 



Low 3-6 cm. high, with several stems from a woody caudex, which is 

 thickly'clothed with the dead stems of former seasons ; somewhat cinereous 

 and viscid, the pubescence of the inflorescence of longer, jointed, arachnoid 

 hairs . Leaves simple and linear or three- to five-divided, with narrow, linear, 

 acuminate lobes which are shorter or longer than the undivided portion, 

 together 1-2 cm. long. Flowers in heads terminating the stems ; bracts 

 broad, similar to the upper leaves, embracing the sessile flowers and more 

 than twice as long; the division terete from the involute margins, once and a 

 half to twice as long as the lower, undivided part, which is 4 mm. wide 



