188 PITTONIA. 
as in the U.S. Herb., there being mounted on the same 
sheet, and under the same label, a specimen of what seems 
to be P. turbinatus; though it is immature, and its identity 
not quite clear. There is also a poor specimen of the same, 
by the same collector, under his label 5500, in U. S. Herb., 
from Erskine Creek, the better specimen on this sheet being 
perhaps P. crinitus; but it is doubtful. 
41. P. TURBINATUS. More than a foot high, loosely and 
sparingly branched, but the scapiform peduncles far exceed- 
ing the branches: leaves 2 or 3 inches long, linear, obtuse, 
slightly callous at tip, moderately hirsute, but the hairs 
short, those of the peduncles longer and spreading: corolla 
cream-color, nearly 14 inches broad in expansion above a 
pronouncedly turbinate base, the 3 inner petals with long 
and slender claw, the outer with claws as long but broader: 
filaments unequal but all spatulate-linear, obtuse: fruit 
naked, small for so large a plant, only 4 inch long exclusive 
of the rather short but slender filiform stigmas; carpels 24 
to 28, very pale and glaucous, with about 10 abrupt deep 
constrictions and as many small round-bead-like joints, the 
whole traversed by a filiform midnerve and a few faint-striz, 
otherwise smooth. 
The type specimens of this fine species have been lying in 
my herbarium since 1886, and were communicated in that 
year, from near Visalia, by Dr. T. J. Patterson, of Visalia. 
42. P. teucantuus. Rather slender, 10 inches high, the 
upright or decumbent leafy branches rather shorter than 
the very erect peduncles ; herbage moderately hirsute; 
leaves short, lance-linear, only obscurely callous at tip: 
corolla rotate, an inch broad, apparently clear white, the 
petals consimilar: filaments of the very many stamens not 
petaloid, very narrowly and somewhat spatulately linear, 
