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diameter: stamens adnate to the corolla-tube for about one-half its length; 
anthers sessile: mature nutlets narrowly ovate, 2.5™™ long, acuminate, 
smooth and shining, pale chocolate-colored, somewhat mottled with darker 
spots; the ventral surface slightly flattened and the groove bifurcated at 
the base.—WASHINGTON: on dry hillsides near Rockland, Klickitat County, 
18 April 1901, Suksdorf, no. 1495 (flowering specimen), and 8 June 1904 
(fruiting specimen); on dry hillsides near Dallas City, 17 April 1901, 
Suksdor}, no. 2346 (flowering specimen). Type in herb. Gray. 
This species differs from K. oxycarya Benth. in having shorter broader leaves, 
somewhat larger corolla, more prominently beaked, darker colored and mottled 
nutlets which are bifurcately grooved on the ventral side near the base. From 
the Californian K. rostellata Greene, K. Suksdorfii differs in having somewhat 
smaller habit, shorter, broader leaves, much shorter branches of the inflorescence, 
slightly larger corolla with broader corolla-lobes, and shorter calyx-lobes in the 
fruiting state—J. M. Greenman, Gray Herbarium. 
