168 PITTONIA. 
almost linear, a little wider at summit: carpels about 9, 
forming an oblong fruit about 4 lines long, but at length 
mostly separating and widely divergent, in this phase not 
at all constricted, nor the joints in any way marked or 
roughened, pale and glaucescent, glabrous or with a few 
scattered hairs: stigmas very short, subulate. 
Santa Rosa Island, Brandegee, 1888; a part of his P. 
- Californicus var. nutans evidently. The only specimens seen 
by me are in Herb. Calif. Acad., where they occupy in part 
sheet n. 2753, one specimen mounted thereon being large, 
and very different, but imperfect and indeterminable.. 
9. P. spHarrocarPus. P. Californicus, var. sphaero- 
carpus. Brandg. Zoe, v. 177. A foot high or more, leafy 
nearly to the summit of the decumbent branches, the 
peduncles little exceeding them: leaves 2 or 3 inches long, 
obtuse, not callous-tipped, thin, hirsute-ciliate: corollas 
cream-color, saucer-shaped, only # inch broad, the petals 
scarcely unequal: stamens only slightly unequal, none of 
the filaments widely dilated, all spatulate-linear or linear, 
obtuse under the anthers: fruit less than 4 inch high and 
rather broader, often of depressed-globose outline; carpels 
about 20, tipped with extremely short lanceolate-subulate 
somewhat recurved stigmas, not in the least constricted, on 
the contrary thickest at the joints, these 4 or 5, somewhat 
quadrate in outline as viewed from the back, truncate at 
both ends and even subcubical, the sides turgidly striate. 
Most singular and remarkable species, thus far collected 
only by Brandegee, at Colusa Junction, Colusa Co., May, 
1889; the specimens in Herb. Calif. Acad. and Herb. Par- 
ish. The very short carpels are most distinctly jointed with- 
out being at all constricted, the joints each of about equal 
thickness from end to end, and truncate. 
10. P. purPuratus. P. Californicus, Lindl. Bot. Reg. t 
1679; perhaps in part of Bentham. A foot high or more, 
