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278 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 
Stem simple or more often branched, 5-25 cm. high, glandular- 
pubescent, frequently tawny viscid-villous on the calyx and lower 
surface of the leaves; leaves thin, scattered, broadly obovate or 
elliptieal, 1.5-3.5 em. long, 5-12 mm. broad, acute, entire or 
occasionally minutely toothed toward the apex, mostly 1-nerved, 
tapering to a slender petiole or the upper leaves often subsessile; 
flowers usually clustered at the tips of the stem and branches, 
pedicels 1.5-3 mm. long; calyx broadly oblong, 8-12 mm. long, 
throat more or less oblique, teeth sharply subulate from a broad 
base, unequal, the lower teeth smaller, about one-third as long 
as the tube; corolla reddish-purple, 1.5-3 cm. long, tube mostly 
included, throat narrowly funnelform, often with a large yellow 
patch extending down the yellow tube, and expanding abruptly 
to a broad spreading almost rotate limb, 1.5-2 em. wide, the 
lobes subequal with rounded sinuses; stamens included in the 
lower part of the throat, anthers usually somewhat hispid; style 
included, stigma-lobes broadly peltate-funnelform, equal, capsule 
slender, lanceolate, tapering to a narrow blunt apex, often m- 
curved, rarely longer than the uppermost calyx-tooth; seeds 
oblong, rounded at both ends, papillate. 
Distribution: western Nevada, Arizona, and throughout the 
arid regions of California from Tulare Co. to Imperial Co. 
Specimens examined: 
Arizona: Zucca, 21 May, 1884, Jones (Pomona). 
Nevada: log railroad north of Verdi, Washoe Co., 5300 ft. alt., 
30 June, 1913, Heller 10890 (Stanford); Eldorado Cafion 8 
Nelson, 3000 ft. alt., 30 April, 1907, Jones (Pomona). 
California: Water Canyon, Tehachapi Mts., Kern Co., 6500 +2 
alt., 26 June, 1908, Abrams & McGregor 464 (Stanford); 
summit, Mt. Wilson, 15 June, 1906, G. B. Grant 6688 (Cornell, 
M, and Stanford); Wilson’s Peak, Los Angeles Co., 10 July, 
1901, Abrams 1892 (Stanford); summit of Mt. Wilson, Los 
Angeles Co., 30 June, 1902, Abrams 2588 (G and M); Kas 
Cañon, Liebre Mts., Los Angeles Co., 7 June, 1896, 
Lamb 4359 (Stanford); hill above Cuddy’s, Cuddy Салуо 
Mt. Pinos region, 15 June, 1896, Dudley 4: Lamb 4504 (бізі: 
ford and Pomona) ; Swarthout Сайоп, San Antonio Mts., Ae 
1887, Parish 1982 (Calif.); sandy wash, 11 miles we 
