162 PITTONIA. 
petals and stamens deciduous: fruit oblong, an inch long, 
-of 9 to 11 large and turgid carpels equably but sparsely 
pilose-hispid from base to apex, lightly constricted, merely 
torulose, not moniliform, traversed dorsally by a low, broad, 
dark line, usually about 9-jointed, the joints neither quite 
smooth nor very definitely wrinkled on the sides. 
In so far as I can ascertain, this plant does not occur ex- — 
cept as almost or quite maritime at and near Monterey. I 
take it tobe one of a goodly number plant species recog- 
nized as being local there. In the herbaria it is a rare spe- 
cies. During my own sojourn of a few days at Monterey in 
May, 1895, I did not meet with it; but the best specimen I 
have seen of it was collected at Pacific Grove in 1893 by 
my pupil, Mr. Tidestrom. Very excellent ones are distrib- 
uted this year by Mr. Heller, who has done well in spending 
this spring in collecting on this classic ground. He says of 
this that its habitat is“ along the beach, exposed to the 
spray, the plants usually prostrate.” 
Such a plant as this here described will be found not to 
match exactly the figure in the Botanical Magazine, where 
the leaves are lance-linear rather than oblong, and acutish — 
rather than very obtuse. But I can imagine an English- 
garden-grown plant of this species to present foliage nar- 
rower, thinner and less obtuse than that possessed by its 
parent on a sandy seashore exposed to the salt spray. But 
Bentham’s type, direct from Douglas, is said to have leaves 
“oblong-lanceolate, obtuse.” So also Asa Gray, as cited 
above, with Douylasian material in view, describes the 
leaves as ‘‘linear-oblong, very obtuse.” The material which 
I describe and cite is, therefore, answerable to the originals 
as they are described; at least, to that part of the original 
material on which the species was mainly founded. But 
this Bot. Mag. figure is in another particular unsatisfactory. : 
Its stamens were drawn at least very carelessly and blun- oS 
