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lobes and the subcapitate raceme. It is nearest to Z. affinis Gray, 

 but has a much longer calyx, the tube more narrowed at base. 



^ Jepsonia heterandra sp. nov. 



Roots fleshy : stems slender, several from the thick fleshy 

 caudex, flowering in the autumn, loosely racemose, or paniculate, 

 glandular-puberulent : leaves appearing in spring, orbicular-reni- 

 form with many short, crenate lobes, the crenatures callous-apicu- 

 late ; blade subglabrous ; petioles glandular-hairy, 3—6 cm. long, 

 rather broad, sheathing the branches of the caudex : pedicels fili- 

 form, 5-15 mm. long: calyx-tube with 10 red veins, truncate, 

 cuneate at base, 4-5 mm. long, the triangular-acute lobes half as 

 long : petals white, tinged or veined with rose, acute at apex, nar- 

 rowed to a short claw at base : stamens of two forms in the same 

 plant, some flowers with filaments only as long as the anthers, 

 others with filaments 2.5 mm. long, anthers orbicular, rose-col- 

 ored : styles in the short-stamened flowers about 5 mm. long, in the 

 long-stamened less than I mm.; stigma bulbous : seeds immature. 



Collected by Mr. J. W. Congdon on banks of Merced River, 

 near Benton's Mills, Mariposa County, California, in October, 

 1883, with leaves April, 1884. The description of the root is 

 taken from specimens collected by Major R. A. Scupham, Octo- 

 ber 24, 1889, six miles east of La Grange at the extreme west 

 part of Tuolumne County, growing on a slate outcrop. 



The species differs from J, Farryi Small in broader and more 

 acute petals, longer calyx-teeth, and heterogonous flowers. 



".Arctostaphylos franciscana sp. nov. 



Low spreading shrub, rooting along the stems : older stems 

 dark red, the exfoliated bark persisting, younger stems somewhat 

 white-tomentose : leaves narrowly obovate to oblanceolate, glossy- 

 green and glabrous on both sides when old, slightly tomentose 

 when young, the apex sharply acuminate and aristate, base pointed, 

 scabrous-ciliolate along the margins, 2-3 cm. long, ^-12 mm. 

 wide ; petioles 2—4 mm. long : panicles short, terminating some 

 of the branchlets ; peduncles 5 mm. long, tomentose ; bracts 2-5 

 mm. long, shorter than the glabrous, ribbed pedicels, the lower 

 longest, ovate, attenuate; pedicels becoming deflexed and longer 

 in fruit, 6 mm.: calyx-divisions orbicular, thin, membranous, 

 glabrous, generally without cilia, i mm. in diameter : corolla 

 broadly urceolate, 6 mm. long, 5 mm. broad, sparingly hairy in 

 the throat and below, the short rounded divisions spreading, min- 



