202 Eastwood: New species of western plants 



utely papillate : stamens shorter than the style ; filaments subu- 

 late-attenuate, 2 mm. long, with cilia sparingly margining the 

 base ; anthers dark wine-colored, i mm. long, the hairy horns 

 slightly longer, deflexed : style somewhat club-shaped, scabrous- 

 puberulent on the ribs and depressions, stigma 0.5 mm. broad, not 

 exserted ; ovary conical, as broad at base as the receptacle, a Httle 

 more than i mm., scabrous -puberulent : berry glabrous, globular, 

 5-7 mm. in diameter. The bud-scales are red or yellowish. 



This grows in Laurel Hill Cemetery in San Francisco, over a 

 limited area on rocky ground. There are some plants on the 

 road to Ft. Reyes lighthouse which appear to be the same, but 

 which have not flowered for three years and have never been col- 

 lected in either flower or fruit. This has been confounded with 

 A. puDiila Nutt. It differs in more prostrate habit, glabrous foli- 

 age, larger flowers and fruits. A. pumila appears to be local 



Monterey 



Arctostaphylos auriculata sp. nov. 



Shrub with erect branches, T-I.5 m. high, old wood smooth, 

 red-brown ; young stems glaucous, clothed with fine, white, arach- 

 noid tomentum and long, loosely spreading, fine, white hairs : 

 leaves oblong to ovate, mucronate at the obtuse or acute apex, 

 auriculate at base, the rounded auricles generally longer than the 

 petiole, with entire or slightly undulate margin, pubescence similar 

 to that at the stem, and evident veins, 3-5 cm. long, 2 cm. wide, 

 thickly clustered on the branchlets, overlapping, almost conceal- 

 ing the inflorescence : flowers in close, somewhat pendent panicles 

 terminating the branchlets ; bracts linear, sessile, acute or obtuse, 

 lowest about i cm. long, 3-4 mm. wide, spreading; bractlets at 

 base of pedicels 2, white-membranous, orbicular, 2 mm, long ; 

 pedicels rose-colored, 3-5 mm. long, clothed with short, spread- 

 ing white hairs : calyx with orbicular rose-colored divisions, gla- 

 brous, ciliate, 2 mm. long, incurved in anthesis, later revolute : 

 corolla rose-colored, urceolate» 6 mm. long, 5 mm. in diameter at 

 base, the divisions broadly orbicular, obtuse, obcordate, or erosely 

 denticulate : filaments ciliate at the thickened base, pale rose-col- 

 ored, the dark wine-colored anthers sub-orbicular, a little more 

 than I mm. long, the curving horns 1.5 mm. long: ovary clothed 

 with long, spreading white hairs : receptacle dark wine-colored : 

 style terete, stigma greenish : honey abundant, giving a sweet fra- 

 grance to the flowers. 



Collected by the author on Mt. Diablo, California, on the trail 

 above the Boyd Ranch, February 22, 1903, in flower; in imma- 

 ture fruit May 30, the same year. 



