294 PITTONIA. 
The largest type specimens in U. S. Herb. are plainly mere 
branches broken off from small bushy and rigid plants ; branches 
showing flowers and fruits. Two specimens, next in point of 
size, show the whole of as many small plants and their fusiform 
roots. One of these exhibits below its dense bunch of leaves 
and flowers the denudate growth of the preceding year. On 
another is shown the growth of two preceding years. No part 
of the plant dies back; hence it cannot be called suffrutescent. 
The species is a diminutive tree-shaped proper shrub. That 
certain other specimens only an inch high, each with its corolla 
as large as all the rest of the plant, are flowering the first year 
from the seed is nothing strange. Every perennial Eschscholtsia, | 
under ordinary conditions, begins flowering a few months after 
germination and while still stemless. 
Duplicates of this plant were sent me, years ago, by Mr. 
Rose, soon after his having published it; and my first thought, 
on seeing them was, that he had placed it in a wrong genus: 
that it must needs be a Aunnemannia. An inspection of the 
parts by help of a lens convinced me that it was not of that 
genus. Recently, having felt unable to reconcile the plant with 
Eschscholtzia, 1 had named and defined it as a generic monotype 
when I came upon the following. 
P. FRUTESCENS. Much larger than the preceding, a foot 
high and as broad; growing branches and their foliage less 
succulent; older and naked branches wholly and solidly woody, 
the wood firm, compact and hard: leaves ample, on long and 
slender petioles, pedately divided and cleft into long narrow- 
linear moderately divergent segments: calyx ovate-conic: 
corolla cruciform, the cuneate-oboyate petals not meeting: 
stamens as in the last ; stigmas 4, rather short, equal : pods and 
seeds not known. 
Rocky ledges on the northern slope of Guadalupe, January, 
1893, Dr. E. E. Franceschi; type in Herb. Calif. Acad., 
mounted with small specimens of Eschscholtzia ramosa. 
