186 PITTONIA. 
or even longer than the body of the carpels, these about 16, 
abruptly and deeply constricted, about 6-jointed, the joints 
loosely and not very distinctly wrinkled, all but the tuft of 
long slender stigmas enclosed by the persistent petals and 
stamens, or these in the earliest flowers deciduous. 
This rests on a single sheet of four specimens in Herb. 
Calif. Acad., labelled in the handwriting of Miss Eastwood 
P. Californicus, but the locality “Santa Maria Mountains” 
in another hand. The large tuft of long stigmas, protruding 
brush-like from amid the corollas that enclose the rest of 
the fruit, gives the plants a singular appearance. 
39. P. oprecrus. Much branched, nearly upright or 
decumbent; leafy branches 5 to 7 inches high, the villous- 
hirsute peduncles surpassing them by as much or more: 
leaves linear, acutish, callous-tipped: buds obovate, and, with 
the young peduncles under them, crinite-hirsute: corolla 
an inch broad, cream-color, saucer-shaped, the outer petals 
obovate, the inner elliptical: stamens unequal, not dissimi- 
lar, the filaments oblong-linear to narrowly spatulate-linear, 
widest and retuse under the linear anthers: carpels, 15 to 
18, short-jointed and moniliform, the joints about 9, the 
pale thin pericarp delicately lineolate, the median line only 
more pronounced and continuous than the lateral ones, the 
whole, except the styles, invested in maturity by the per- 
sistent petals and stamens. 
Var. SANCTARUM. Notas tall as the type. More acau- 
lescent and compact, the short densely leafy stems only 2 or 
3 inches high, the peduncles stouter and as long: leaves 
oblong-linear, obtuse or somewhat retuse by a depressed 
callosity; pubescence more appressed, and that of the pe- 
duncles less copious: corollas ? inch broad, the petals often 
tipped with red: carpels shorter, with fewer joints, these some- 
