170 | PITTONIA. 
short; leaves 2 or 3 inches long, linear, obtuse, thin, loosely 
hirsute-ciliate and with few or no superficial hairs: corollas 
an inch broad, cream-color, saucer-shaped: stamens very 
unequal, the outer half the length of the inner, their broad 
filaments obcordate, those of the others spatulate-linear, ob- 
tuse: carpels about 12, cohering and forming an oblong fruit 
an inch long including the stigmas, quite moniliform, about 
10-jointed, green and glaucous except as to a not very prom- 
inent dark-colored midnerve, the sides indistinctly subcris- 
tate-rugose. 
Var. styLosus. Like the type as to size, flower, and gen- 
eral habit, but carpels few-jointed, the joints only 5 or 6, and 
slender stigmas greatly elongated, these and their style-like 
base equal in length to the seed-bearing body of the carpel. 
Inhabiting the coastal hills back from the sea, through- 
out the region of San Francisco Bay. An excellent and typi- 
cal specimen isin Herb. Calif. Acad. from San Rafael, Marin 
Co. by Justin P. Moore, 20 April, 1878. Others as typical are 
in the same collection, gathered by Miss Eastwood, one sheet 
from Lake Merced, San Francisco, another from Lagunitas 
Creek, Marin Co. An excellent sheet in U. S. Herb. bears the 
meager legend, “California, J. R. Vasey, 1875.” This is 
doubtless also from near San Francisco. 
The var. stylosus has the same range, and is represented in 
the U. S. Herb. by a sheet from Kellogg & Harford, ob- 
tained at School Station (a former suburb of San Francisco 
lying towards Lake Merced, if I remember rightly), May, 
1868. It is also in my own herbarium from Sequoia Cafion, 
Marin Co., May, 1892, by Michener & Bioletti. 
12. P. rortvosus. Leafy branches a foot long or less,- 
' stout and tortuous, as are also the elongated peduncles; 
leaves commonly 3 or 4 inches long, obtuse, notably hairy 
above, not obviously ciliate: corollas 14 inches broad, 
