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tered along the branches; inflorescence terminal in scant racemes; flow- 

 ers pedicellate, the lower subtended by reduced leaves, upper short 

 bracteate, outer sepals pubescent, ciliate on the margins, dull reddish, 

 lateral ones broad oval, smooth, and petaloid; lateral petals broad 

 oval, pubescent internally, as long as the broad, central hood, with a 

 short, curved beak ; stamens eight, as long as the curved style, capsule 

 (immature) orbicular, narrowly margined; seed, hairy pubescent. 



Habitat: In the vicinity of Sauzal, on Todos-Santos Bay, Lower 

 California. Discovered by Miss Fanny E. Fish, to whom we are in- 

 debted for several interesting plants of that district, and to whom this 

 interesting addition to the Pacific coast flora is appropriately dedicated. 



Gii.iA Orcuitii. 



Mr. C. R. Orcutt, of San Diego, whose name has been mentioned 

 above in connection with several botanical discoveries, and who has 

 lately pubUshed a hst of the plants recently collected by him in the 

 vicinity of San Diego, has furnished specimens of a new Gilia from 

 Lower California, for which, as an appreciation of the intelligent zeal 

 of the discoverer, I proposed the name of Gilia Orcnttii. Submitted 

 to Prof. Asa Gray, he has kindly furnished for publication the following 

 diagnosis, viz. : 



Gilia ( Leptosiplion ) Orcnttii. A span high, slender; leaves only two 

 or three pairs up to the inflorescence, very small, with filiform divisions; 

 flowers few, in the clusters ; tube of the corolla less than half-inch long, 

 rather thick, dilated at summit, hardly longer than the turbinate cam- 

 panulate throat and limb, its lobes ovate; stamens and style included. 



Habitat : High mountain ridge in Lower California. Collected by 

 C. R. Orcutt, June, 1883. Color of flowers light blue, with deep pur- 

 ple spots; resembles G. densiflora in the shortness and comparative 

 thickness of the tube, otherwise unlike, and to be placed between that 

 and G. brevicida, to which it is nearest allied, but abundantly distinct. 



