244 PITTONIA. 
torus inflated and scarious-looking, the epiderm being loosened 
and becoming bladdery ; rim not broad, thinnish, reflexed; inner 
margin hyaline and denticulate. 
Carrizo Plains, east of the mountains, in San Luis Obispo Co., 
Calif., 3 May, 1896, also on Caliente Creek, 7 May, and at Santa 
Maria, 10 May, all in the same general region the same year, by 
Miss Alice Eastwood. Species remarkable for the great num- 
ber of stigmas, all equally developed. The scarious torus isa 
character marking two other species, but these in. the other sec- 
tion of the genus. 
33. E. RIGIDA. Robust and rigid upright branching peren- 
nial 2 or 3 feet high, glabrous throughout, glaucescent, sparsely 
leafy and leaves small for the plant, firm, their segments obo- 
vate-cuneiform or oblong-cuneiform, acute, little divergent: 
peduncles short, mostly in the forks of obviously dichotomous 
branches, very stout: calyx nearly 1 inch long, subconic-ovoid, 
abruptly short-pointed: corolla orange, not large for the 
plant, very open-campanulate and 2 inches wide or less: sta- 
mens indefinite, with short filaments and long anthers: stigmas 
4, very unequal; pods small for the plant, only 14 to 24 inches 
` long ; torus very long and narrow, tubular funnelform, often 2 
inch long, the coriaceous deflexed rim not very broad, the inner 
margin papery and opaque : seeds short-ovoid rather than spheri- 
cal, strongly rugose transversely, the papery ridges sometimes 
running into an irregular reticulation. 
The earliest specimens of this southern mountain species are 
some branches in fruit collected by myself at Tehachapi, Cali- 
fornia, 21 May, 1885. Otherwise the type is Coville & Fun- 
ston’s n. 1115 of the Death Valley Expedition, obtained in the 
same vicinity in 1891, and catalogued on my authority as E. 
crocea, from which it is easily most distinct, and which, in dis- 
tribution does not approach this Tehachapi region. 
I refer here with reluctance plants that have been collected 
by Mr. Parish at Fort Tejon, at Banning, in the San Bernardino 
Mountains, and at San Gorgonio Pass, all of them differing 
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