286 PITTONIA. 
date by an abrupt and rather deep apical notch; spur 
almost as long as the limb, very thick, straight and obtuse. 
Cowichan River, Vancouver Island, J. R. Anderson, 2 
June, 1898; communicated by Mr. Macoun. The species 
must be a very beautiful one, by its neatly cordate pale 
foliage, and large broad-petalled flowers. Its large almost 
leafy and distinctly toothed bractlets, situated low on the 
peduncle, are a very notable characteristic. My specimens 
bear the Canadian Survey number 19,912. 
V. PETROPHILA. Tufted stems ascending, 3 inches high 
and slender, as are also the petioles and peduncles; herbage 
glabrous except a scanty hirsutulous hairiness at and near 
the margins of the leaves and along the angles of the 
petioles; leaves subcordate-ovate, seldom # inch long, on 
almost filiform petioles twice or thrice as long, crenate; 
stipules small, lacerate-toothed; peduncles elongated, almost 
filiform, slenderly bibracteolate near the flower; sepals 
subulate-lanceolate, corolla scarcely $ inch broad; petals 
narrow, but the keel broadest, equalling the others, obtuse; 
spur long, narrow, curved downwards. 
Crevices of Rocks, Shawnigan Lake, Vancouver Island, 
9 May, 1897, J. R. Anderson, the specimens communicated 
by Mr. Macoun. Like V. subcordata (Pitt. iii. 316) in habit 
and leaf-outline, but otherwise quite dissimilar, especially 
as to pubescence, the small size of the corolla, and the 
narrow downwardly curved spur. 
V. compacta. Dwarf and condensed, the entire plant 
including the large flowers only 1 or 2 inches high, in 
appearance acaulescent, the tufted leaves barely 4 inch long 
including the petiole, this and the blade of about equal 
length, the latter round-ovate, obtuse, crenate, sparingly 
