132 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [AUGUST 
narrowly linear, 4-5mm. long, dark colored, and glandular- 
hirsute: corolla purple, the tube equaling the calyx, contracted at 
the throat and base: the lobes irregularly orbicular, these and the 
upper part of the tube glandular-hirsute without: stamens inserted 
in the middle of the tube, nearly sessile: ovary glandular-hirsute. 
This species is closely related to tomentosum and possibly should be con- 
sidered a variety. The two are best differentiated by the position of the 
stamens. 
YPE LOCALITY.—‘‘On one volcanic het on Santa Catalina Island, 
Rr ani at an elevation of about 1500 fe 
DistRiBuTIon.—Santa Catalina Island ue on the mainland in the Santa 
Inez Mseriag Santa Barbara County. Why it should occur in practically 
unmodified form on the mainland and the islands is not easily explained, 
although the fact that it is found on the islands in only one station and that 
composed of only a few bushes would indicate that it had been transported, 
possibly by birds of passage, from the mainland. It is significant in this con- 
nection that a number of insular species are also found on the mainland in the 
Santa Barbara region. : 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED.—Santa Barbara County: Painted Cave ranch, 
Eastwood, May 9, 1908; Sisquoc, M. S. Baker, July 1895; La Cumbre trail, 
Santa Inez Mountains, Abrams 4311; Santa Inez Mountains, Eastwood, May 
17, 1904; Hall 7845; bushy hills, head of Santa Inez River, Hall 7830; near 
Santa Barbara, Brewer 296; Elmer 4017; Brandegee, 1888. Los Angeles 
County: Santa Catalina Island, Blanche Trask, May 1897 and September 1910. 
8. ERIODICTYON SESSILIFOLIUM Greene, Bull. Cal. Acad. Sci. 
1:201. 1885. 
A shrub 1-2 m. high with very leafy glandular-pubescent and 
hirsute branches: leaves lanceolate-oblong, 6-12 cm. long, 2-4 cm. 
wide, acute at apex, sessile and truncate or cordate-clasping at 
base, coarsely serrate, glutinous and nearly glabrous to densely 
hirsute on the upper surface, sparsely to densely hirsute beneath 
and short-tomentose between the veins: inflorescence an open OF | 
somewhat congested cymose panicle: sepals villous-hirsute and 
glandular, about 5mm. long: corolla funnelform, 12 mm. long, 
lilac-purple, pubescent without but not glandular: stamens equal, 
their filaments densely clothed with bristly hairs: capsule globular: 
seeds dark brown or nearly black. 
Considerable variation in the amount of hirsute pubescence suggests @ 
plastic condition or possibly two varietal strains, but too few collections have 
