228 PITTONIA. 
barely 2 inches long ; torus under them short, funnelform, with 
narrow and thinnish rim. 
In Fresno Co., Calif. to the eastward of the interior valley of 
the State, in the foothills of Sierra Nevada, at Sequoia Mills, 
May, 1893, Miss Eastwood. Specimens in Herb. Calif. Acad. 
9. E. BENEDICTA. Smallish and not stout, very glaucous per- 
ennial 8 to 12 inches high; branches decumbent or ascending 
from amid a considerable tuft of upright leaves, only the 
long scapiform earliest peduncle strictly erect: petioles from 
obscurely and obsoletely to very pronouncedly scabrous-ciliolate, 
all other parts glabrous: leaves compact as to segmentation, the 
short ultimate segments broadly spatulate-oblong, very obtuse: 
peduncles few and elongated : calyx about 8 lines long includ- 
ng the short stout abrupt point, the body round-ovoid, rather 
opaque : corolla deep-orange, widely expanding, less than an 
inch across: stamens very many, the narrow-linear wholly 
orange colored filaments very short; anthers excessively long: 
stigmas 4, short, unequal: pod 23 inches long; torus short, 
subturbinate, only the moderately broad herbaceous rim obvious. 
Types in Herb. Calif. Acad., by Miss Eastwood ; a good nearly 
glabrous specimen from Lewis Creek, San Benito Co., Calif. 14 
May, 1893; a smaller and very scabrous one fromCantua Creek, 
which lies not far distant, but in western Fresno Co., 19 May, 
the same year. 
10 E. JUNCEA. Æ. glauca, Greene, Fl. Fr. 285, not of Pitt. 
i. 45. Perennial, with many slender wiry or reedy branches 
from the base, these decumbent or ascending, a foot high or 
more, sparsely leafy, very glaucous, more or less scabrous- 
puberulent near the base: leaves small, the basal upright, their 
long and slender petioles scabrous-edged, their blades cut into 
broadly linear nearly parallel acutish segments: calyx rather 
opaque, little more than } inch long, ovoid, abruptly short- 
pointed : corolla orange, 1 inch wide: pods about 14 inches long 
