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dense brown felt and with short bristly hairs, %-l'/4 i long, persistent. 

 Lake Co., Cal., to Baja California; Nevada. A beautiful ornamental shrub, 

 well-known in many European gardens. 



Fremontodendron Calif ornicum Coville, CNH 4:74 (1893). Parsons, 

 W Fls Cal 162 t. 



Cheiranthodendron Californicum Baill, Hist PI. 4:70. 



Katharine Brandegee, Zoe 1:82, reports from Santa Clara Co., Cal. 

 STYKAX [Tournefort] Linnaeus, Syst ed 1 (1735). 



An Asiatic and American genus, warm-temperate or tropical with 

 scurfy or stellate-downy herbage and mostly handsome fls. Cx persistent, 

 truncate campanulate, the border merely denticulate or irregularly toothed, 

 in the North American species coherent at its base with that of the 3-cell8d 

 many-ovuled ovary: cor of 5 or sometimes 4-8 soft-downy pet, which are 

 united at base into a very short tube, decid: sta 10: fil flat, monadelphous 

 at base into a short tube which is coherent with the base of the cor: anth 

 linear, 2-celled, fixed by the base, introse; the cells opening lengthwise: 

 sty filiform: fr globular, its base girt by the persist8nt ex, at first rather 

 fleshy, at maturity dry, commonly splitting into 3 valves, 1-celled, filled 

 with a single large globular seed, which resembles a small nut; the sd-coat 

 being thick and crustaceous: embryo nearly the length of the fleshy 

 albumen: cotyledons broad and flat: radicle slender. 

 S. California Torrey, Smithson Contr 6:4 (1854); Pacific Ry R 4:118. 



Brewer and Watson, Bot Cal 1:470. 



A handsome shrub 5-8 ft hi: Ivs ovate or oval, 1-2% i long, obtuse at 

 both ends, entire, minutely stellately pubescent, at least when young, and 

 even hoary beneath: fls much larger than in any of these of the Atlantic 

 states, except the Texan S. plantanifolia Engelmann, few in a cluster or 

 corymbose raceme, on a short terminal peduncle: pedicels clubshaped: di- 

 visions of the white soft-downy cor 5-8 spatulate-lanceolate (Y 2 i or more 

 in length), imbricated in the bud: fil monadelphous nearly to the middle: 

 bony sd % i in diam. First collected by Fremont and occurs from Fall- 

 brook (Parry, in Orcutt herb 808) to the upper Sacramento river. 



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