(Vor. 11 
304 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 
ft. alt., Sept., 1875, Rothrock 378 (G); Volcano Meadow, vicin- 
ity of Mt. Whitney, 8 Aug., 1897, Dudley 2498 (Stanford); 
Whitney Meadows, 19 Aug., 1891, Coville & Funston 1625 
(Cornell, M, and Stanford); border of Whitney Meadow, 
10300 ft. alt., Aug., 1897, Dudley 2488 (Stanford); Milky 
Meadow, Tulare Co., 23-31 July, 1900, Jepson 946 (Calif.); 
Olancha Mt., Tulare Co., 8000 ft. alt., June, 1904, Hall 4 
Babcock 5218 (M and R. Mt.). 
91. M. leptaleus Gray in Proc. Am. Acad. 11: 96. 1876; Bot. 
Calif. 1: 564. 1876, іп part; Syn. Fl. №. Am. 2!: 274. 1878, 
ed. 2, and Suppl. 445. 1886, in part. 
Eunanus leptaleus Greene in Bull. Calif. Acad. Sci. 1:101. 1885. 
Small plants, viscid-pubescent to almost glabrous, commonly 
2-4 ет. high, occasionally 6-10 em. high, the taller plants usually 
branched; stem slender, mostly reddish; leaves obovate, ob- 
lanceolate or linear, .5-1.5 em. long, 1-3 mm. wide, thick, obtuse, 
rarely acute, 1-nerved, entire, tapering to a short slender petiole 
or the uppermost ones sessile, usually clustered with the flowers 
at the tips of the stems, often tinged with red and with a 
midrib; pedicels almost filiform, 1-2 mm. long; calyx slender, 
cylindrical, usually more or less tinged with red, 3-4 mm. long, 
becoming distended and completely filled with the mature capsule, 
obscuring the angles, throat slightly oblique, teeth from one 
third to one-half the length of the tube; corolla slender, funnel- 
form, 8-10 mm. long, reddish-purple, tube exserted at least half 
the length of the calyx, throat beardless with a large yellowish or 
white patch spotted with red down the anterior part, lobes short, 
squarish, mostly equal, limb about 3 mm. in diameter, the whole 
withering persistent and becoming filiform; stamens includ 
not approximate, anthers reflexed, glabrous; style and stigma 
included, stigma-lobes very unequal, ovate, acute; capsule b ; 
oblong-ovate, obtuse, compressed, little longer than the calyx; 
seeds smooth, oval, apiculate at both ends, less than twice Ж 
long as broad. 
Distribution: open gravelly places in the high Sierra Nevada 
Mts., California, 
Specimens examined: 
