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PITTONIA. 



Shores of the Gnlf o£ California and adjacent islands, 

 Palmer, 1887, numbers 322 and 323 ; distributed as a variety 

 of B. floribHiida, to which large coarse, almost wholly her- 



baceous, viscid species, with its extremely ample leafless 

 terminal and naked panicle, this shrub bears no special 

 resemblance. 



DowxKXGiA MONTANA. Stem simple or with few branches, 

 slender and weak, few-flowered : corolla apparently very 

 ringent, the segments of the widely removed upper lip 

 notably contracted above the broad base, and lanceolate, 

 neither erect nor reflexed, but produced forwards and a little 

 divergent above the broadly 3-lobed mostly white, but blue- 

 tipped, lower lip, the throat marked with one or two spots of 

 purple. 



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In the Sierra Nevada, on the shores of Lake Eleanor, 

 Tuolumne Co., Calif., 28 June, 1889, Chesnut & Drew. 



In a genus where almost all the specific characters— and 

 they are of the most pronounced kind— reside in the configu- 



ration and markings of the very delicate corolla, I should not 

 have attempted to describe a species as new from dried speci- 

 mens had not the collector been eminently successful in his 

 efforts to keep many corollas from undergoing shrinkage and 

 distortion while in press. Tlie present one is the first member 

 of the genus which we have from the mountains, unless D. 

 hicomuia, which is still unknown to me, be montane in the 

 northern part of the State. All the others belong to that very 

 different geographical region, the plains of the interior. 



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EuNANus PULCHELLUs, Drew, in herb. Very dwarf, the 

 simple or branching stem \ to 1^ inches higli, very slender, 

 the whole plant sparingly villous and somewhat viscid : leaves 

 spatulate, entire, I to % inch long : calyx urceolate, the green- 

 fohaceous very unequal segments as long as the scariuus 

 o-angled tube : corolla 1 inch long, with very slender long- 

 exserted tube, funnelform tliroat and bilabiate limb, the 2- 

 tobed purjde upper lip as long as the 3-lobed golden-yellow 



