122 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [aucust 
should be placed here rather than in Nama, but it is an ill-scented 
herbaceous perennial of a totally different habit from true Ertodic- 
tyon and at least worthy of subgeneric distinction. The other 
species, Nama Lobbii Gray, has seeds merely muriculately papillose 
without any traces of longitudinal ridges, a seed character of the 
Nama type, and it is with that genus that it is most closely related. 
Leaves petioled; herbage glutinous or tomentose, not hirsute. 
Herbage not grayish or hoary Seale, throughout; upper surface of 
the leaves glabrous and glutino 
Branches glabrous and ititons 3 or those of the panicle sparsely 
bescent; reticulations event on the lower surface of the 
eaves. 
Corolla tube about 12 mm. long, Evenis Gackt much exceed- 
ing the nearly glabrous sepals........ 1. E. californicum. 
Corolla tube 5-7 mm. long, little or not at all exceeding the 
sepals, white 
Leaves ake broadly lanceolate, not revolute; sepals 
densely pubescent; filaments adnate to hes corolla tube 
half their lenetli. 6 i . E. trichocalyx 
Leaves mostly narrowly linear and ie sepals usually 
sparsely pubescent; filaments adnate one-third their 
length « &. angustifolium. 
Branches tomentose, becoming more or less denudet with age in 
lana 
tum. 
Leaves lanceolate, firm-coriaceous and more or less revolute, 
densely white-tomentose beneath, obscuring the reticulations. 
. E. lanatum. 
Leaves broadly oblanceolate, not revolute; sparsely soft- 
tomentose beneath; reticulations evident. 
@ E. c. denudatum. 
Herbage more or less densely tomentose throughou 
alyx and corolla not glandular-pubescent; ae not constricted 
at the throat 
Leaves densely covered with a silvery meas 
. E. crassifolium. 
Leaves clothed with a dull.gray tomentum or ates nearly 
glabrous on the upper surface..5a. E. crassifolium nigrescens. 
Calyx and corolla with stalked glands; corolla more or less constricted 
at the throat. 
Stamens ies ae the corolla tube, this slightly constricted at 
he three ee es . E. tomentosum. 
Stamens ay as long as the corolla tube, this stromay eee ees 
Oe THR es ii 7, E. Traskiae. 
Leaves sessile; herbage more or less hirsute............. 8. E. sessilifolium. 
