STUDIES ON CALIFORNIAN PLANTS. I. 
H. M. HALL. 
(WITH PLATE X) 
SPECIES FROM SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. 
Frasera neglecta, n. sp.— Plant perennial, 3-6%" high, with 
several slender terete glabrous stems arising from a single per- 
pendicular tap root: leaves all opposite, thick and leathery, not 
at all succulent; the lowermost crowded, 13-18 long, 4.3- 
8.6™™" wide, interspersed with others only 5° or less long, taper- 
ing for nearly their whole length to the base which abruptly 
widens and unites with the opposite leaf to form a short sheath ; 
the upper merely sessile by a broad base, those of the inflores- 
cence gradually reduced to spreading or recurved linear-lanceo- 
late acute bracts: inflorescence an elongated interrupted thrysus, 
the lower cymes on ascending peduncles 5—10™ long, few- 
flowered, upper cymes short-peduncled or sessile and more 
densely flowered ; pedicels varying from 1™ in length to almost 
obsolete: sepals 4, lanceolate, cuspidate-acuminate, 6.5"™ long, 
the margins scarious: petals oblong, acute, 8.6-10.8"™ long, 
greenish-white, the veins purple; petaline gland replaced by a 
tubular nectary, which reaches from the base of the petal nearly 
to the middle where it appears on the inner surface as a circular 
cavity with an indenture on the upper side, the orifice surrounded 
by a raised membrane with finely divided margin forming @ 
fringed border: stamens 4; filaments nearly as long as the 
petals, tapering from the broad base to the tip; anthers oval: 
ovary ovate, attenuate into the slender style which is as long as 
the stamehs. : 
Collected at the head of Swarthout cafion, San Antonio mountains, alti- 
tude 2070", June 1900, 1495 Had/ (type); Holcomb valley, San Bernardino 
mountains, August 1882, Parish; Rock creek, San Gabriel mountains, July 
‘Contributions from the Botanical Laboratories of the University of California. 
388 [JUNE 

