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2. Eriodictyon Traskiae, sp. no v. 



Plate X, Figs. 2a-ic. 



Densely white-tomentose, except the dark-colored, glandular-hirsute calyx: 

 leaves elliptical, 5 cm. long, 15 mm. wide, acute at apex, the base narrowed 

 to a petiole snim. long, margins dentate except near the base, veins distinct 

 on the lower surface, barely evident on the upper: panicle slightly surpassing 

 the leaves, with branches spreading or curving upwards, rather slender, 

 glandular and tomentose, bracts from elliptical with dentate margins to lan- 

 ceolate or linear with margins entire; cymes densely flowered: flowers small, 

 on pedicels i mm. or more in length; calyx divisions five, narrowly linear, 

 not uniform in length, 4-5 mm. long; corolla purple, the tube equalling the 

 calyx, 5 mm. long, contracted at base and throat, furrowed longitudinally, 

 divisions of the limb irregularly orbicular, not uniform in size, glandular- 

 hirsute externally as well as the upper part of the tube; stamens inserted half 

 way down the tube, almost sessile; style branches glabrous, i>^ mm. long; 

 ovary ovoid, glandular-hirsute; fruit unknown. 



This was discovered May, 1897, on one volcanic upland 

 on Santa Catalina Island, Calif., at an elevation of about 

 1500 feet, by Mrs. Blanche Trask, the indefatigable local 

 botanist in whose honor it is named. Probably, this is the 

 plant collected by Lyon on Santa Catalina, referred by Dr. 

 Gray to E . tomentosmn} It approaches E . niveum but is 

 undoubtedly a distinct species. 



A plant slightly differing from the above was collected in 

 the Santa Inez Mountains, Calif., by T. S. Brandegee, in 

 1888. 



The peduncles are stout, with thicker and more spread- 

 ing branches, leaves larger and coarser, pedicels much 

 longer, 4 mm. long, while the filaments are short but dis- 

 tinctly evident, the corolla has the same shape, the lobes of 

 the border being not quite so broad. As this, too, is in 

 flower only and very young, comparisons of the fruit and 

 seed cannot be made. 



The plate shows the floral organs of E. ci-assifoltum from 

 San Diego, part of the collection sent to Kew, and also those 

 of E . niveum and E. TraskicB, all drawn to the same scale, 

 five times the actual size. 



1 Suppl. Synop. Fl., p. 420. 



