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condition, and it is possible that they hybridize where they meet. 
Diplacus latifolius Nutt. is a broad-leaved form of M. aurantiacus. 
А pubescent form has been collected by Abrams 6467, 6468, 6469, 
and 6470 and by Dudley on the road between Jolon and King's 
City in central California. In these specimens, the stem, 
branches, pedicels, and calyces are densely pubescent. 
113. M. puniceus (Nutt.) Steud. Nom. Bot. ed. 2, pt. 2, 150. 
1841; Gray, Syn. Fl. №. Am. ed. 2,21: Suppl. 442. 1886. 
РІ. 10, fig. 11. 
Diplacus puniceus Nutt. in Taylor's Ann. Nat. Hist. I. 1: 187. 
Apr., 1838, by error published as D. punicea; Nutt. ex Hooker in 
Curtis, Bot. Mag. II. 12: under pl. 3655. Мау, 1838; Maund's 
Botanist 4: pl. 169. 1840; P. N. Don in Donn's Hort. Cantab. 
ed. 13, 402. 1845; Greene in Bull. Calif. Acad. Sci. 1:96. 1885; 
Pittonia 2: 157. 1890; Abrams, Fl. Los Angeles, 364. 1904, 
and ed. 2, 334. 1917. 
Diplacus glutinosus var. puniceus Benth. in DC. Prodr. 10: 
368. 1846. 
М. glutinosus var. puniceus Gray in Bot. Calif. 1: 566. 1876; 
Syn. Fl. №. Am. 2:: 275. 1878, and ed. 2, 1886. 
A freely branched glutinous shrub, 5-18 dm. high; stem and 
branches terete, glabrous or puberulent; leaves thick, linear or 
narrowly lanceolate, occasionally oblanceolate, 2-6 cm. long, 
3-11 mm. broad, mostly obtuse, usually sessile and partly clasping 
the stem, entire or sometimes denticulate, generally revolute, 
dark green and glabrous above, paler and with scattered branched 
hairs on the lower surface, smaller leaves often fascicled in the 
axils; pedicels 6-12 mm. long; calyx narrow, tubular, 1.8-2.5 cm. 
long, glabrous, throat scarcely dilated, teeth triangular, obtuse 
or acute, often ciliate, unequal, upper tooth 5-7 mm. long; corolla 
3.5-4 cm. long, dark red to brick-red, tube included, throat ample, 
funnelform, lobes narrow, truncate, emarginate or the la ч 
lobes irregularly notched; stamens inserted on the upper part 
the tube, longer pair sometimes puberulent, usually dier 
exserted; style exserted, puberulent above, slightly thickened 
the base at maturity; stigma-lips equal; capsule dion 
obtuse, nearly as long as the calyx; seeds elliptical, acute at bo 
ends, papillate. 
