308 PITTONIA. 
an inch long or more, as broad as long, mostly indefinitely 
quadrate rather than rounded, otherwise of more rounded 
outline and repand-toothed, pale (but not silvery), with' a 
minute and not dense stellate-lepidote indument; petioles 
about twice the length of the blades and, together with the 
peduncles, purplish, pruinose with small and not closely 
contiguous stellate scales: peduncles and short racemes not 
greatly surpassing the foliage even in fruit, leafy below 
with obovate entire petiolate leaves or bracts: flowers small 
for the plant, sulphur-yellow: fruiting pedicels ascending: 
pods oval, glabrous, 3 lines lohg or more, surmounted by a 
style nearly as long. 
Known in but a single but very excellent specimen 
obtained by Mr. C. F. Baker, at Pagosa Springs, Colorado, 
21 July, 1899. . 
L. ovata. Perennial, the caudex multicipitous, its 
branches bearing tufted leaves and several short leafy- 
bracted rather few-flowered peduncles, the whole plant, 
petals and pods excepted, white with a very dense stellate- 
lepidote indument: blades of lower leaves round-ovate to 
oval, acutish, entire, firm, about 1 inch long, on petioles as 
long; scapes erect, only 2 or 3 inches high, their bracts 
oblanceolate: pedicels of the short and subcorymbose fruit- 
ing raceme stout, ascending: pods glabrous, subglobose, sub- 
stipitate, about 3 lines in diameter, the style as long. 
Bluffs of the Arkansas, about Pueblo, Colorado, collected 
by the writer in May and June, 1873, in flower and fruit; 
also from Swallows’, above Pueblo, 1 June, 1901, C. F. 
Baker, n. 8. 
L. panvuta. Dwarf alpine multicipitous perennial, the 
branched lignescent and quite’ subterranean caudex 1} 
