LEAFLETS. 73 



New Plants Prom Middle California. 



The greater part of the species herein defined form a portion 

 of a most interesting collection made this year in the mount- 

 ains of Tulare County, California, Mr. J. D. Culbertson, and 

 the specimens were communicated to me for determination by 

 Mr. Carl P. Baker, who has in hand the distribution of them to 

 herbaria. 



The series of diagnosis begins with a small list of new mem- 

 bers of the difficult genus Lupinus. 



L. CuLBBBTSOifii. Low perennial, not alpine, neither de- 

 pressed nor compactly tufted, but subacaulescent, 6 to 10 inches 

 high, with decidedly thinnish foliage and scarcely canescent 

 with a sparse pilose or villous hairiness ; petioles long and slen- 

 der, leaflets 5 "to 7, almost elliptic oblong, cuspidately acute, 

 i inch long or more; peduncles scapiform, bearing the long 

 raceme just above the foliage commonly with a solitary leaf 

 toward the base : racemes 3 to 4 inches long, crowded and ob- 

 scurely verticillate ; corolla rich purple, less than i inch long, 

 banner little shorter than the other petals, keel narrow, slightly 

 falcate, retrorse-ciliolate. 



Porks of the Kaweah Kiver, at 8,000 feet, July, 1904, Mr. J. 

 D. Culbertson, With the habit of the familiar L. minimus, 

 but totally different foliage and pubescence. From Summit 

 Lake, at a higher altitude Mr. Culbertson has the same more 

 pubescent (n. 4553). 



L. DASYPHYLLUS. Perennial, the stout simple stems strongly 

 striate, villous, very leafy; leaves large, short-petioled, the lance- 

 linear leaflets (basal ones cuneate-oblong, very obtuse) 3 

 inches long, acute, rather loosely villous-hirsute on both faces : 

 racemes sessile, 4 to 6 inches long, the large flowers obviously 

 verticillate, their long linear densely villous bracts not cadu- 

 cous: calyx and pedicels densely long-villous: corolla \ inch long, 

 purplish, banner smaller than the other petals, keel narrow and 

 little curved, naked, or with a few loose hairs above the middle. 



Parwell Gap, at 10,000 fefet, 3 Aug. 1904, Mr. Culbertson, n. 

 4372 of Baker's distribution. Species uncommonly well marked, 

 its near afiinities not obvious ; the specimens too fragmentary. 



