[Vor. 11 
204 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 
leaves few, broadly ovate, .7-1.8 cm. long, .5-1.2 cm. wide, thin, 
acute, denticulate, sessile by a broad base, 3—5-nerved, rarely 
puberulent; inflorescence racemose, often flowering from near the 
base; pedicels slender, shorter than the leaves, spreading; calyx 
puberulent, 6-7 mm. long, broadly oval in fruit, 9-10 mm. long, 
5-6 mm. wide, chartaceous, strongly plicate, teeth equal, ciliate, 
very short, broad, tapering abruptly to a short point, giving a trun- 
cate appearance to the mature calyx; corolla slightly bilabiate, 1.3- 
1.5 em. long, rose-red, tube exserted, throat expanded, pink with 
а yellow patch lined with rose-red, two yellow, hairy ridges below 
the lower lip, lobes short, emarginate, more or less hirsute at the 
base; stamens included, white, filaments glabrous, anthers sub- 
globose, villous with soft white hairs; style included or slightly 
exserted, glabrous, stigma-lips unequal; capsule chartaceous, 
oblong, obtuse, almost truncate at the apex, stipitate, placentae 
separating nearly one-fourth the entire length; seeds oval, favose- 
areolate. 
Distribution: in the Sierra Nevada Mts. from Yosemite Valley 
to Tulare Co., California. 
Specimens examined: 
California: Alder Creek Trail, Yosemite Park, 5500 ft. alt., 1 
July, 1911, Jepson 4321 (Cornell, M, and Calif.); Raymond 
to Yosemite, 11 June, 1891, Fritchey 3 (M); Snow Creek, 
Yosemite Park, 10 July, 1883, Congdon (G); Mariposa, May, 
1882, Congdon (С, түре); Darrah, Mariposa Co., 3 July, 
1892, Congdon (Stanford); Mariposa, 16 May and 17 June, 
1892, Congdon (Stanford); near Sugar Pine Mill, Madera Co., 
12 July, 1901, Dudley (Stanford); Coffee Pot Pasture near 
spring in black soil, vicinity of Homer’s Nose, Sequoia Nat. 
Forest, 9000 ft. alt., 12 July, 1897, Dudley 1799 (Stanford); 
Cedar Creek, Sequoia Park, 4000 ft. alt., 20 June, 1900, Jepson 
591 (Cali; near Cedar Creek, Giant Forest, Tulare 00» 
26 July, 1905, К. Brandegee (В. Mt. and Pomona); m dry, 
34. M. inconspicuus Gray in Pac. Rail. Rept. 4: 120. ig 
Proc. Am. Acad. 7:380. 1867; ibid. 11:99. 1876; Bot. Calif. 1: 
