106 ERYTHEA. 
a broadly obovate or nearly orbicular sometimes almost 
closed sinus; petals nearly white (faintly flesh-colored), the 
banner obcordate, with sides abruptly reflexed, each side 
with a concavity, the middle with few divergent short and 
simple red veinlets none of which reach the border or anasto- 
mose: wings meeting and concealing the keel from above, 
Like the preceding, this plant is a tenant of the University 
garden, the seeds having been sent from Los Angeles Co. in 
1891. It is a most distinct species, by the characters of the 
ealyx and corolla. The flowers, scentless in all the allied 
species of our coast, in this one are delicately fragrant. 
Tellima tripartita. Very slender, less than a foot high, 
hispidulous under a lens, in no part glandular: radical 
leaves rather numerous, small, about 4 inch broad, parted 
almost to the base into 3 obovate-spatulate or obcordate 
lobes; the cauline solitary, similar to the radical: flowers 
only 3 to 6, in a loose raceme, the pedicels about equalling 
the calyx; this campanulate, nearly free from the ovary, the 
lobes triangular, acute: petals rather large, pinkish, 3-lobed, 
the 2 upper ones less distinctly so, or entire. 
In the mountains of San Diego Co., Calif, near San 
Jacinto; collected in 1892 by Mrs, Gregory. In habit, 
suggestive of T. Cymbalaria, but in all respects very distinct. 
Tissa Talinum. Perennial and apparently suffrutescent; 
the erect branches almost without internodes and densely 
clothed with linear or linear-filiform leaves 1 to 24 inches 
long, these from glabrous to sparsely glandular-hispidulous 
under a lens; the triangular-lanceolate long-attenuate stipules 
4 to ? inch long: inflorescence a rather dense short-pedun- 
cled cyme: capsules nearly cylindrical, 3 or 4 lines long, 
little exceeding the narrowly linear-oblong hispidulons sepals: 
seeds minute, broad-pyriform, smooth, wingless. 
Guadalupe Island, off Lower California; first collected by 
Dr. Edward Palmer (1889), and distributed as T. pallida, 
which it is very unlike. Collected again very recently by 
Dr. E. Franceschi, whose specimens are larger. The species 
is most unlike all others in its almost obsolete internodes 
