130 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. [PROC. 3D Ser. 



reply was received: '■^ Eriodictyon crasstfolium and E. 

 tomentosum are conspecific and your plant named tomen- 

 tosum is apparently an undescribed species which we also 

 possess from J. G. Lemmon without locality, and from 

 G. R. Vasey, Monterey, 438, coll. July, 1880." 



Since Lemmon, Vasey, and Brandegee have all passed 

 through Jolon when on their way to the Santa Lucia 

 Mountains in search of Abies bracteata, doubtless the region 

 of the writer's collection of this species coincides with 

 theirs and will be considered as the type locality of the new 

 species. 



I. Eriodictyon niveum, sp. nov. 



Plate X, Figs. 3^-3^. 



Densely white-tomentose or flavescent ; stems three or four feet high, 

 growing in clumps, very leafy below the inflorescence : leaves thick, elliptical- 

 ovate or obovate, 4-6 cm. long, 1-3 cm. wide, entire or crenate, except on 

 the cuneate base, apex acute or obtuse, lower surface reticulate-rugose, 

 upper with veins scarcely discernible; petiole broad, 5-10 mm. long : panicle 

 terminating a long, naked peduncle, compactly or widely branched, the stout 

 branches varying much in length on different plants; cymes densely flowered, 

 with the lower bracts obovate or spatulate, tapering to broad petioles, the 

 upper oblanceolate to linear; flowers small, almost sessile; calyx equalling 

 the corolla tube, divisions linear-subulate, densely clothed with white silky 

 hairs; corolla white or tinged with lavender, 4 mm. long, urceolate, glandu- 

 lar-hirsute externally, glabrous within, tube furrowed longitudinally, slightly 

 contracted under the five small spreading lobes;" stamens with the free 

 portion short, inserted below the throat, anthers oval, i mm. long; styles 

 shorter than the sepals; capsules orbicular, obtusely 5-angled, tomentose, 

 especially on the angles; seeds four or sometimes five, brown, minutely 

 favose, variable in shape, often keeled, more than i mm. long. 



Collected by the writer near Jolon, Monterey County, 

 Calif., in flower June i, 1S93, and in fruit Sept. 22, 1894. 



The following specimens, besides, are in the Herbarium 

 of the Academy: — 



Lobb, San Antonio Valley (date not given) ; T. S. Bran- 

 degee, Monterey County, 1885; Dr. Palmer, "Perhaps 

 from Monterey County," 1876. 



There is also a specimen without flowers or fruit collected 

 by T. S. Brandegee at Zapato, Fresno County, Calif. The 

 foliage and pubescence are exactly of this species. 



