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cylindric or slightly funnelform tube 3 lines long; segments 

 acute, about as long: petals scarcely a line long, thinnish, white 

 with red veins, cuneate-quadrate, nearly truncate and scarcely 

 erose at apex, and with narrow and abruptly inflexed margins: 

 filaments scarcely equalling the petals; anthers connivent, with 

 prominent cusp bent outw^ards. 



This has been grown for two seasons in the Botanic Garden 

 at Berkeley, the living shrub having been sent from the moun- 

 tains of Kern Co. Calif., in 1893, by Norman C. Wilson. Her- 

 barium specimens of the same, I had, in the Flora Franciscana^ 

 referred to R. amictum; but the living plant is of very different 

 aspect, and the floral characters of the new species are excellent. 



33. Ilil>es eruentum Greene, Pittonia, 4: 35. 1899. 



Shrub of the size and habit of R. amictntn^ but wholly 

 glabrous, leaves with their lobes less crenate; flowers larger, the 

 whole calyx with its almost cylindric tube and long spreading 

 segments deep crimson: petals white or pink, not strongly invo- 

 lute, laciniate-dentate across the obtuse apex: ovary and berry 

 strongly aculeate. 



Species common in the Californian Coast Range^ from So- 

 nom^a Co. northward into southern Oregon. Some specimens of 

 it were present when R. amictum w^as first described, and from 

 these the term "glabrate" found place in the diagnosis, the 

 specimiens cited from Hoopa Valley being of the present species? 

 not the true R. amictum. This last, though occurring at the 

 north as far westward as the interior of Humboldt Co., is prop- 

 erly a shrub of the Sierra Nevada; is always tomentulose even 

 to the outside of the calyx, and has a shorter broader flower, 

 v,'ith quite different petals, these being only erose-dentate, and 

 much thicker and more waxy in appearance than those of R. 

 eruentum.. 



The flower of this species is not well described. The calyx is about 13mm. 

 long when opening, the finally reflexed lobes about 7mm. The petals are only 

 a little shorter than the subulate filaments; anthers purplish, 2mm. long, base 

 roanded, tha apex tipped with a rather slender, prominent mucro.: style a little 



