stripe, fading to lavender, segments ovate; stamens widening a 

 little below, exceeding the perianth; stigma not divided; crests 6, 

 crowned with the remnants of a cellular ridge of oblong cells very 

 conspicuous during inflorescence. 



No. 3408 type specimen. Abundant on a hill east of Beau- 

 mont, /. C. Marvin, April, 1921. 



This plant has the habit and general appearance of A. haema- 

 tochiton but lacks the numerous blood-red bulb coats of that 

 species. The capsule is markedly different in the two species. 



l/ ALLIUM MONTICOLA n. sp. 



Bulb ovate, 18 mm. wide without definite coatings; stem 5-10 

 cm. long stout, terete; leaf single, 6 mm. in diameter, fleshy, 

 terete with a shallow groove at the base, much longer than the 

 stem, in stout specimens sometimes 3 dm. long; pedicels 12 or 

 more, 5-8 mm. long; bracts usually 3, broadly ovate with long 

 acuminate tips; perianth pinkish with brown midribs fading to a 

 deeper pink, segments 13 mm long, 4 mm. wide, lanceolate, acute, 

 the tips slightly recurved, inner segments slightly smaller, stamens 

 10 mm. long, widening to the base; stigma single; pistil 8 mm. 

 long; capsule obong its pyramidal top crowned with six thin verti- 

 cal crests. 



No. 1924 type specimen from the rocky slopes of Mount 

 Markham, Los Angeles County. June 1921, R. Kessler; Mt. San 

 Antonio, Burlezu. 



V' MYZORRHIZA HUTCHINSONIANA n. sp. 



Plant 12 cm. high with thickish root 2.5 cm. in diameter, 

 glandular pubescent throughout; scales rather fleshy, inflorescence 

 thyrsoid; bracts 2, linear, close to the calyx; flowers 2 cm. long; 

 pedicels 3 mm. long; calyx 1 cm. long, divided to the middle, the 

 segments 3 mm. wide at the base narrowing to a blunt tip; corolla 

 tubular, 5 mm. wide contracted at the mouth, white with 2 yellow 

 linear folds on its anterior aspect inside, slightly bilabiate, 2 cleft 

 above, 3 cleft below, the lobes short; stamens glabrous before 

 dehiscence. 



Type No. 3407. Palm Springs, Mrs. W. W. Hutchinson, 

 April, 1921. 



This plant is much more fleshy than A4. californica, the sepals 

 are shorter and blunter and the white flower is characterized by 

 a somewhat contracted mouth. No plants were growing in its 

 immediate vicinity. 



1/ LEWISIA BERNARDINA n. sp. 



Root fleshy, globose or conical; leaves 5 cm. long, linear, 

 widening above the middle and narrowing above to the blunt 

 apex; scapes several, 7-8 cm. high; bracts linear, entire, opposite, 

 about 15 mm. from the base; sepals 2, acute, entire; petals 8 or 9, 

 20 mm. long, 4 mm. wide, apex rounded and apiculate; flowers 

 soliatry and terminal; stamens 12-15, styles 5; scapes not rerto- 

 curved in fruit. 



