192 PITTONIA. 
branched, upright or decumbent, a foot high, the leafy 
branches and the peduncles of about equal length, the 
latter abruptly recurved or deflexed in fruit: leaves some- 
what lance-linear, 1-neryed or with faint lateral nerves be- 
low the middle, pilose-ciliate toward the base, callous-tipped: 
corollas cream-color, rotate, } to # inch broad, all the petals 
broadly obovate, the 3 outer broadest: filaments all spatulate- 
linear, broadest and merely obtuse at summit, the anthers 
not very long: fruit narrow cylindrical, ł inch long includ- 
ing the short styles and subulate stigmas; carpels often very 
few, 7 to 15, strongly constricted and moniliform, the small 
joints often 10 or 12, usually hirsute, marked by a distinct 
dorsal nerve and less obvious lateral ones, and minutely 
tuberculate. 
Common species of the uplands about San Diego, the type 
specimens of my owncollecting at San Diego, 7 April, 1885, 
and preserved in my own collection, as well as in Herb. Calif. 
Acad., and U.S. Herb. It occurs as far inland as San Ber- 
nardino, whence Mr. Parish has frequently distributed it. 
49. P. nurans. P. Californicus, var. nutans, Brandg. Zoe, 
v. 177, in part. Near the last, not as tall, almost diffuse, the 
peduncles shorter than the leafy branches: leaves only 7 
inch long, linear or oblong-linear, obtuse, obscurely if at all 
callous at tip, the pubescence obscure, of short stiff spread- 
ing hairs, the short peduncles almost hispidulous: flowers 
not seen: carpels slender, about 9 to 12, glabrous or nearly 
so, delicately jointed but not constricted, separating and 
becoming divergent in maturity, the surface without obvious 
lineation or tuberculation. . 
This is based on a plant which, in so far as I know, has 
been gathered and distributed only by Brandegee, and from 
along the seashore, I think, in the vicinity of San Diego- 
It forms but a small part of his lately and very briefly indi- 
