84 PITTONIA. 
punctate: bracts of involucre oval or. elliptical, pubescent, 
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PRS Sete 
scarcely ciliate: calyx-tube sparsely bristly-hairy and with more — 
copious short hairs beneath; teeth subulate, densely short- — 
setulose: corrolla rose- purple, its short tube retrorsely hispidu- 
lous. 
Known only as collected by myself in the mountain south of f 
Tehachapi, California, 24 June, 1889. 
M. RUBELLA. Perennial, but less suffrutescent than the last, — 
the stems arising simply from the ends of horizontal ligneous x 
but subterranean rootstocks, and about a foot high, slender, with 
long internodes, red-purple, as are also the bracts of the involu- 
cre: herbage otherwise pale with a minute almost imperceptible _ 
puberulence: leaves ł inch long, oblong-lanceolate, petiolate, — 
entire, almost veinless, spreading, mostly with short densely leafy 
sterile branches in their axils: bracts oval, abruptly acute, thin, — 
of a rich red between the parallel nerves and retrorsely pubera- — 
lent, but the minute hairiness of the nerves appressed the other — 
way, the margin definitely ciliate : calyx- tube equally and finely — 
pubescent, but the teeth strongly setose- ok corolla pale- 
purple, its short tube pubescent. 
Known only as sent me many years since, from near Verdi, 
naires i by T C. F. Sonne. Its nearest ally is M, Modocensis. 
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M. MURICULATA. Suffrutescent, low, barely 6 or 8 inches 4 
high, the tufted stems slender, finely puberulent and also sparsely 
beset witha minute but stontish murication : leaves almost glab- 
rous, strongly pellucid-glandular, ovate-lanceolate, veinless, 
entire, less than 4} inch long: heads small and few-flowered, the 
few involucral bracts very unequal, all except the two outerand — 
more leaf-like ones thinnish and subscarious, very obtuse, — 
obovate-oblong, strongly ciliate, superficially pubescent and 
with the same scattered muriculation of red-purple points which © 
adorns the stems and is also extended to the tube of the calyx} _ 
teeth of the latter triangular, acutish, sparsely Sci corollas : 
short, rose-purple. 
