NEW OR NOTEWORTHY SPECIES. 225 
CassrA CONFINIS. Suffrutescent, 2 or 3 feet high, canes- 
cently villous-tomentose throughout: stipules setaceous: 
leaflets in 2 unequal pairs, the upper much larger than the 
lower, all obliquely round-obovate, those of the upper pair 
more than an inch long, the younger ones all tipped with a 
setaceous mucro, but this deciduous, the mature leaflet be- 
ing obtuse or retuse and pointless; flowers few, umbellately 
terminating stout ascending peduncles: pods oblong, 1 inch 
long, subterete, somewhat hirsute, beaked by a stout subu- 
late style. 
Los Angeles Bay, Lower California, Dr. Edw. Palmer, 
1887. Related to C. Covesii, but with very different leaves 
and pods. 
STREPTANTHUS LINEARIs. Annual, erect, simple, 2 feet 
high, glabrous, glaucous: basal leaves unknown, the cauline 
about 3 inches long, very narrowly linear, entire, sessile; 
the very lowest floral (or those of the 2 or 3 short branchlets 
of the otherwise simple raceme) similar except a short sub- 
sagittate dilated basal part; the few proper floral bracts cor- 
date-ovate, and from caudately acuminate to merely acute: 
raceme short for the size of the plant and few-flowered : 
flowers nearly 1 inch long, white; calyx ovate-oblong, sub- 
Saccate: petals with broad claw and also a well developed 
and rounded limb : stamens in 3 unequal pairs, but all with 
Well developed polliniferous subsagittate anthers: fruit un- 
n. 
Mariposa Co., Calif., April, 1895, Mr. J. W. Congdon ; the 
Specimeus distributed under the name of S. diversifolius, to 
Which the species is indeed related, but from which it differs 
notably in the thrice larger and differently constructed 
flowers, the curiously caudate-acuminate bracts, and the 
less narrowly linear perfectly entire foliage. 
STREPTANTHUS ASPER. Annual, stoutish, simple, or 
branched from near the base, 1 to 2 feet high, the leaves 
and lower part of the stem hispid: leaves spatulate-linear, 
