452 POLEMONIACEZ PHLOX 
| CANTUA 
entire or barely retuse, 6 lines long: ovules 2in each cell. Along the 
Columbia river from The Dalles eastward. 
P. longifolia Nutt. Jour. Acad. Philad. vi, 41. Nearly glabrous to 
pubescent, much branched or many-stemmed from a woody base, 3-8 inches 
high:.leaves mostly narrowly linear, 1-3 inches long: calyx more or less 
angled by the white-membranaceous replicate sinuses: lobes of the corolla 
obovate or oblong-cuneate, entire or retuse, 3-5 lines long: ovules almost 
always solitary in the cells. Dry plains, eastern Oregon to Brit. Columbia 
and the Rocky Mountains. 
P. Stansburyi Heller P. longifolia var. Stansburyi Gray. Conspicuously 
pubescent throughout, or sometimes glabrate, generally stoutish and some- 
what open in growth,, 6-8 inches high: leaves from linear to linear-lanceolate, 
1-8 inches long: pubescence of the branchlets and calyx viscid or glandular: 
tube of the corolla about twice the length of the calyx; its obovate lobes 
entire or barely retuse: ovules 1 or 2 in each cell, Dry prairies, eastern Ore- 
gon and Washington to the Rocky Mountains. 
P. adsurgens Torr. in Herb. Gray 1. c. 256. Glabrous except the 
glandular-pubescent slender pedicels and calyx: stems slender, trailing or 
ascending, 6-20 inches long: leaves ovate to broadly lanceolate, acute, 5-12 
lines long by half as broad, all but the lowest shorter than the internodes: 
tube of the corolla nearly twice as long as the calyx; its obovate entire or 
retuse lobes 5-6 lines long: ovules solitary in the cells. In dry open forests, 
southwestern Oregon . " . 
_+ + Calyx-tube cylindraceous, the thin membranous portion be- 
tween the ribs not projecting into salient angles: style very short, most- © 
ly shorter than the ovary. 
P. speciosa Pursh Fl, 149. Stems 1-3 feet high; the branches ascend- 
ing from a shrubby base, somewhat viscid-puberulent or glandular above: 
leaves lanceolate or linear, 1-3 inches long, very acute above, sessile with a 
broad base: flowers corymbose: corolla rose color or pink to white; its tube 
but little longer than the calyx; its obcordate lobes 5-6 lines long: ovales ° 
solitary in the cells, Dry ridges and rocky banks, California to Brit Colum- 
bia and the Rocky Mountains. 
Var. Sabini Gray 1, c. Lobes of the corolla entire or barely retuse: 
obovate with a narrowed cuneate base. Spokane river Washington. 
2 CANTUA Juss. Gen. 136. 
Very leafy commonly tufted perennials or undershrubs with the 
leaves all alternate, rarely opposite, and showy flowers either sol- 
itary and sessile or few ina cluster at the ends of short branches 
or branchlets. Calyx tubular to campanulate, the lobes short- 
subulate, pungent. Corolla salverform; the tube more or less 
exceeding the calyx ; the throat somewhat funnelform. Filaments 
short, inserted in or below the throat: anthers short, included. 
Ovules numerous in each cell. Seeds with a close coat, develop- 
ing neither mucilage nor spiral threads when wetted. - 
C. pungens Torr. Ann. Lyc N. Y. ii, 26. Gilia pungens Benth. 
Puberulent, glabrate, or somewhat viscid: stems woody, usually much 
branched or tufted, 6-8 inches high: leaves sessile, palmately divided into 
3-7 rigid and pungent subulate segments, 4-8 lines long, often with smaller 
ones fascicled in thelr axils: calyx cylindraceous; its subulate lobes 4% 
