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PITTONIA. 



lias been published. It is very distinct from its allies in the 

 form of the inflorescence, the character of the calyx, and the 

 size of its flowers and fruits. 



New or Noteworthy vSpecies. 



XII. 



Lotus (Syrmatiltm) Biolettii. Perennial, difTase, the 

 slender and somewhat wiry nearly prostrate branches a foot 

 or two in length and almost forming a mat: herbage ciu- 

 ereously or canescently pubescent with short and closely 

 appressed hairs: leaflets usually 4, cuneate-obovate, obtuse, 

 2 to 4 lines long: umbels on slender peduncles little exceed- 

 ing the leaves, nnifoliolate-bracted, 6 to 10-flowered: calyx 

 less than a line long, narrowly funnelEorm, the triangular 

 pointless erect teeth scarcely a third as long: corolla 2 lines 

 long, deep yellow, turning dark red: pod strongly arcuate, 

 slender-beaked, the rather broad body 1 or 2-seeded. 



On dry ridges above Mill Valley, Marin Co., Oalifuruia, 



ifolinm / 



-tranciscana applies to no species very closely, but covers 

 loosely an aggregate of things which I now feel able to separ- 

 ate and to characterize. I had feared at first that they were 

 confluent varieties, but am now convinced that they are thor- 

 oughly distinct. The essential characters of the tru( 

 must first be given. 



/ 



Teifolium fucatum, Lindl. Cot. Eeg. xxii. t. 1883 (1836): 



T physopdalum, Fisch. & Mey., Ind. Sem. Petr. iii. 47 (in 

 the same j^ar, but presumably later). Branches stout and 

 somewhat fistulous, often a foot long: leaflets an inch long, 



