142 PITTONIA. 
exceeding 4 inch long, 1. nerved, not reticulate, entire, the 
cauline smaller, oblanceolate and oblong; torus with a dilated 
and revolute rim or border; buds minute, less than a line 
long: corolla white, about 4 inch broad, petals obovate-oblong 
and oblong: stamens 6, or fewer, equal; filaments filiform, 
not flattened, rather more slender at base and gradually 
thicker under the oval adnate anthers. 
The species is known to myself only as inhabiting Oregon 
and Washington. But in Gray’s Synoptical Flora it is said to 
range northward to British Columbia. 
2. M. ocranpra. The rather few ascending and almost 
filiform branches 3 to 5 inches high; rosulate basal leaves 
very small, the proper blade rounded, the petiolar part nar- 
row-linear; cauline leaves larger, mostly spatulate, none 
linear, the uppermost oblong: torus-rim evident but not 
prominent; corolla apparently white, 4 inch bront, var 3 
outer petals widened from a narrow base t li : 
in expansion their margins nearly meeting, overlapping the 
3 inner and concealing them as viewed from the outside: 
stamens about 8, the 4 outer shorter. 
The type specimens of this were obtained by Miss East- 
wood, in Tulare Co., Calif., one sheet from Salt Creek, a tribu- 
tary of the Kaweah River, this in 1894; the other from neat 
Kaweah in 1895. There is also a fruiting specimen, prob- 
ably to be referred here, collected by Brandegee, at Cramer, in 
_ the same county, in 1891. The species is extremely well 
marked by the great width of its small petals; the outer 
| overlapping the inner, quite as in most Eschschotzias, but 
as in no other Meconella. 
3. M. cauirornica. Torr, & Frém.,in Frém. 2d. Report, 
312; Torr. Pac. R. Rep. iv. 64 in part, excl. pl. Thurber. 
Piotystigma Californicum, Wats. Index, 48. Platystemon 
