184 PITTONIA. 
Eastwood; and the plant may be considered as a northern 
homologue of that southern species, though its carpels are 
of a most different character from those of that or any other 
known member of the genus. 
35. P. PECTINATUS. Stout, a foot high, the robust sub- 
scapiform peduncles making more than half that height, 
the decumbent branches rather loosely leafy and the leaves 
_ small, 2 inches long, linear, apparently callous-tipped, hir- 
sute above, and marginally, glabrous beneath: peduncles 
very hirsute: corollas an inch broad, saucer-shaped: sta- 
mens moderately unequal, all with long spatulate-linear 
very obtuse or even slightly obcordate filaments, these and 
the petals persistent: carpels 20 or more, an inch long in- 
cluding the uncommonly long filiform stigmas, not con- 
stricted, yet breaking into 8 or 9 truncate joints, the dorsal 
ridge beset with about two series of whitish prickles each 
terminating in from 1 to 3 long hairs, the carpel thus ap- 
pearing subserrate-pectinate and strongly hirsute dorsally ; 
the sides rather amorphous-sculptured, the whole dark- 
brown in color. 
A very remarkable species in the character of its carpels; 
known only as in Herb. Calif. Acad. of Miss Eastwood’s col- 
lecting at Alcalde, Fresno Co., 9 May, 1893. 
_ 36. P. suBeREUS. Stout and rigid, 8 to 10 inches high, 
branched and leafy at base only, the scapiform peduncles 
sparsely hirsute with long spreading hairs: corolla an inch 
broad, apparently yellow, saucer-shaped: filaments of the 
outer series of stamens narrow-cuneiform, mostly tridentate 
at the broad summit, the middle tooth longest, sometimes 
slenderly attenuate, this bearing the anther, the innermost 
not tridentate and the anther often quite sessile: carpels 
about 10, stout, scarcely torulose, turgid, 6-jointed, glabrous, 
