290 PITTONIA. 
cuspidately acute: flowers larger, the bud 14 inch long; torus 
tubular-funnelform ; calyx ovate-conical with an abrupt short 
point, very thin, scantily hirtellous. 
The type of this remarkable species, obtained by Mr. Lem- 
mon at Cholame, San ;Luis Obispo Co., Calif., as long ago as 1887, 
has not yet been rediscovered. The var. /axa is different habit- 
ally, is much less pubescent, and the flowers are larger and 
paler. It is quite possible it may demand specific rank when 
all the allied forms are better known. It is from Alcalde, Fresno 
Co., by Miss Eastwood, 10 May, 1893. Type in Herb. Calif. 
Acad. The var. cuspidata, though from a station less removed 
from the habitat of the type, I am loath to leave in the rank of 
a new variety, an account of its very different calyx. It is from 
San Lnis Obispo, and was collected by Mr. L. Jared in 1893. 
Specimens in Herb. Calif. Acad. 
109." E. LOBBL. Æ. tenuifolia, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4812, not 
Benth. Subacaulescent annual not very slender, densely tufted 
and upright, 6 inches to foot high, glabrous, or at base very 
sparsely scaberulous, the herbage greenish and hardly glauces- 
cent: earliest leaves narrowly lance-linear, very acute, entire, the 
many and tufted later ones mostly quinate (a few ternate), cut 
into 5 divisions, of which the lower are simply ternate, the 
terminal simple, all segments linear or lance-linear, elongated, 
acute: scapiform peduncles numerous, mostly well exceeding 
the foliage, quadrangular though often obscurely so, an inter- 
mediate elevated line on each face almost prominent as the 
angles : calyx 4 lines long, not striate, ovate-conical, very acute 
but not apiculate : corolla rotate, an inch wide: stamens about 
16 or 20: pods 24 or 3 inches long, stoutish: seeds densely 
clothed with brown papery lamellae and therefore bur-like. 
This interesting plant, which I take pleasure in dedicating to 
memory of William Lobb, who was a collector of Californian 
seeds for Veitch of England more than a half-century ago, 
through whom the plant became known in England. The elder 
