288 PITTONIA. 
and with an indentation more typically crenate than in any 
of its American allies. The corollas are nearly white in the 
dry, and may have been light-blue when fresh. 
V. oREOCALLIS. Size and mode of growth as in the last, 
but peduncles and petioles more slender, the leaves thinner 
and the whole herbage puberulent: leaves cordate-ovate, 
obtuse, very lightly and almost obscurely crenate, not 
ciliate, truly puberulent above, beneath rather hirtellous 
along the veins; stipules small and narrow, sparingly in- 
cised: peduncles bibracteolate far above the middle and the 
bractlets contiguous: sepals glabrous: corolla more than an 
inch in diameter, all the petals spatulate-obovate, the keel 
much the largest and longest; spur rather short, thick and 
obtuse. 
Mill Hill, British Columbia, 29 April, 1900, J. R. Ander- 
son. Differs altogether from V. Andersonii by. its leaf- 
outline and indument, as well as by its larger flowers, with 
petals of quite other proportions. The specimens both of 
this and the last preceding were communicated to me by 
Dr. Fletcher of Ottawa. 
V. ALBERTINA. Stems low, 2 or 3 inches long, ascending, 
from a slender simple or branched fibro-ligneous rootstock ; 
herbage hirtellous-puberulent, peduncles and petioles more 
densely and somewhat retrorsely hirtellous: leaves from 
suborbicular (in the lowest) to round-ovate and deltoid- 
ovate, obtuse, finely and evenly crenate, 1 to nearly 1 inch 
long, on petioles nearly twice as long; stipules lanceolate, 
subpinnately incised toward the base: peduncles quite sur- 
passing the leaves, conspicuously bibracteolate toward the 
summit, the bractlets opposite, linear: corolla blue, $ inch 
jong, the keel petal somewhat shorter than the others, 
