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and glaucous, but puberulent like the stem: inflorescence 2 dm. 

 long or less, with several distant whorls of rose-purple flowers, 

 the flowers dense in the whorl, each whorl subtended by a pair 

 of foliaceous, acute, broadly lanceolate, glandular pubescent 

 bracts, the lowermost equaling the flowers, the others succes- 

 sively a little shorter: calyx 8 mm. long, the lobes lanceolate, 

 5 mm. long, unequal in width, the widest 3 mm., pubescent with 

 short, soft, spreading glandular hairs: corollas about 2 cm. long, 

 the tube pubescent like the calyx, barely 3 mm. across at base, 

 5 mm. across the top, the inflation gradual, the upper part im- 

 mediately under the lower lip with a plane space 5 mm. long, 

 3 mm. wide, marked with two grooves; lobes spreading, the up- 

 pet" lip 8 mm. across, 2-cleft for 2 mm., the divisions quadrate- 

 oblong, very slightly downcurved at apex; lower lip i cm. wide, 

 5 or 6 mm. long, cleft almost to the base, the divisions oblong, 

 rounded and obtu.se, the lateral ones nearly 4 mm. wide: anthers 

 split almost to the apex, low V-shaped; sterile filament bearded 

 near the apex on one side with yellow hairs: style slender, the 

 stigmatic tip not enlarged. 



The type is no. 8331, collected May 25, 1906, in the ex- 

 treme southern part of Mono county, California, along the base 

 of the White mountains near the Southern Belle mine. A 

 handsome species, and perhaps not rare in that region. 



Peutsteinoii recurvatii.s 



Perennial, stems several from a short, decumbent, rather 

 slender rootstock about 3 dm. high, glabrous, purplish, leafy: 

 basal leaves spatulate or oblanceolate, sub-acute, 5 cm. or less 

 long, I cm. or less wide; tapering into the margined petiole; stem 

 leaves lanceolate, sessile, acute, the lowest 4 or 5 cm. long, i cm. 

 wide, the others gradually a little smaller, the base usually 

 rather wide, all glabrous: flowers violet-purple in about three 

 whorls, each whorl subtended by a pair of linear-lanceolate green 

 bracts, the lowermost longer than the flowers, the others shorter: 

 calyx 4 mm. long, 2 mm. across, green except the slightly 



