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344 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 
Mexico: 
Lower California: northern Lower California, 23 June, 1885, 
Orcutt 1295 (Gray Herb.). 
114. M. parviflorus (Greene) Grant, comb. nov. 
Diplacus parviflorus Greene, Pittonia 1:36. 1887; ibid. 2: 157. 
1890; Davy in Gard. Chron. III. 16: 20. 1894. 
A very leafy shrub, glabrous or nearly so, 1.5-6 dm. high; 
leaves obovate or rhombic-ovate, 2-4.5 ет. long, .5-2 em. 
broad, obtuse, narrowed to a slender sessile base, entire or ir- 
regularly dentate, occasionally revolute, paler green on lower 
surface and often shining as though varnished ; flowers numerous, 
pedicels mostly as long as the calyx, slender; calyx tubular, 1.7- 
2.2 cm. long, slightly spreading at the throat, covered with sessile 
glands, these giving it a shiny appearance, teeth short, triangular, 
obtuse, upper one 4—6 mm. long; corolla 2.5-4 cm. long, brick-red, 
tinged with yellow on lower lip and down the throat, tube slender, 
included, expanding abruptly to the long, somewhat tubular 
throat, lobes short, truncate, little spreading, scarcely erose, 
upper lip 5-6 mm. long, lower lip shorter, limb 1-1.5 em. Ш 
diameter; stamens exserted, upper pair often as long 85 the 
corolla; style and stigma reddish-yellow, exserted, sometimes with 
a slight tubercular enlargement at the base; stigma-lips ciliate, 
sometimes fimbriate; capsule 1.5-2 cm. long; seeds oval, apiculate 
at each end, reticulate. i 
Distribution: common on Santa Cruz Island off the coast 0 
Santa Barbara, California. 
Specimens examined: 
California: Island of Santa Cruz, July and August, 1886, gen 
(M, PhiL, and Stanford); Santa Cruz Island, April, i D 
Т. S. Brandegee (G); East End Mt., Santa Cruz Island, “uy, 
1901, Snodgrass (Stanford) ; Friar's Harbor, Santa Cruz eet 
3 Sept., 1903, J. Grinnell 7 (Stanford); Santa Cruz ММА 
16-17 July, 1917, Eastwood 6897 (G and Calif. pai 
Cruz Island, 24 May, 1918, Miller (Calif. Acad.); 6% (М 
Harbor, Santa Cruz Island, Aug., 1923, А. L. Grant 1 | 
and Calif.). "TT 
Dr. Greene reports that these plants “flower profusely 
height of only three or four inches." 
