274 PITTONIA. 
and petioles hirtellous-scabrous: leaves glabrous, glaucous, the 
divisions rather widely divergent, each division cut into 3 broad 
segments, each broadly cuneate and 3-cleft, the ultimate lobes. 
broad, truncate, equally 3-toothed at summit: calyx thinnish, 
narrowly and acutely ovoid, ł inch long or less, sparsely hirtel- 
lous: corolla ł inch broad: torus short, turbinate, glabrous, 
the erect hyaline inner margin the more conspicuous: growing 
ovaries and small immature pods glabrous. 
Alcalde, Calif. 1891, T. S. Brandegee; two specimens form- 
ing part of Herb. Calif. Acad. sheet n. 2,632. Also at Alcalde 
1893, Miss Eastwood, in Herb. Field Mus., sheet n. 82048. In- 
timately related to Æ. eximia; smaller in all its parts, and 
foliage more compact, of irregular cut, suggestive of the branch- 
ing of a stags horn; but several other desert species have a like 
dissection, 
85. E. HYPECOIDES, Benth. Trans. Hort. Soc. Ser. II. i. 408, 
not of any more recent anthers. Annual, upright, 4 to 14 inches 
high, with many branches from amid the basal leaves, all naked 
to the middle, there parted into several widely diverging and 
freely tloweriug branches, the branching dichotomous, a pair 0 
nearly opposite leaves at base of each fork; herbage merely 
glaucescent and the whole plant, usually even to the calyx, 
more or less subpapillose hirtellous: leaves small for the plant, 
mostly broader than long, their segments short, oblong and 
linear-oblong, acute: calyx thin, round ovate, abruptly acumi- 
nate, about ł inch long: corolla rotate, ł inch broad, the petals 
greatly over-lapping: stamens many, the filiform filaments and 
linear anthers of about equal length: stigmas 4, not very un- 
equal: torus long and almost tubular, neither margin very 
obvious: pods 14 to 2 inches long, slender thinnish: seeds 
spherical or slightly elongated, marked with a strong and ele- 
vated reticulation. 
Among the several species of the genus earlier published this 
is the rarest, and has been no better than unknown for sixty 
years past, except as to the specimens collected by Douglas, and 
