62 Contributions from the Gray Herbarium 
retuse at the mucronulate apex, cuneate into the margined petiole, 
thin but firm, equally green both sides, sparsely strigillose, some- 
what veiny (lateral veins ca. 7 pairs, reticulate-anastomosing), 2.5- 
5.1 em. long, 1.7-2.2 em. wide, on rather densely strigillose petioles 
2-3 mm. long. Racemes terminating branches, 10-32-flowered, 5- 
19 cm. long. Flowers pinkish-purple, very handsome, 1.3-1.5 cm. 
long, on very sparsely appressed-hairy pedicels 7-12 mm. long. 
Sepals densely ciliate, the upper 5 mm. long, the lower 4 mm. long. 
Wings orbicular, retuse at the rounded apex, shortly unguiculate at 
base, very minutely glandular-ciliolate, otherwise glabrous, in fruit 
strongly reticulate, 12-15 mm. long and wide. Keel 9 mm. long. 
Upper petals ligulate. Lateral petals present. Capsule quadrate- 
orbicular, emarginate, glabrous, 1.5-1.9 em. long, 1.5-1.7 em. wide. 
Seed ellipsoid, bronzy-brown, pilosulous, 9 mm. long, 6 mm. wide. 
Aril very minute, corneous, ca. 0.5 mm. long. — Brandeg. Proc. 
Calif. Acad. Sci. II. ser. ii. 130. t. 4 (1889); Zoe i. 4 (1890); Chod. 
Bull. Herb. Boiss. i. 354 (1893); Sprague! Bot. Mag. cxxxil. t. 
8065 (1906). — Lower CaxirorniA: Sierra de la Laguna, 27 Jan. 
1890, Brandegee 23 (G); Sierra de la Laguna, Anthony (K); Pes- 
cadero, 23 Oct. 1893, Brandegee (K), l. c., 27 Oct. 1893, Brandegee 
(G). Also specimens from the Hanbury Garden at La Mortola, 
17 July 1905 (K: type of Bot. Mag. t. 8065). 
“In southern California said to grow to 15 feet or more in height 
and to be valuable economically as its young branches contain a 
very strong fiber and the pta-sized brown seeds which are plenti- 
fully produced yield as much as 38 per cent of excellent oil. The 
root has the same properties in a higher percentage ” as P. Senega L. 
78. P. HonpuRANA Chod. Stem woody, corymbosely branched 
above, 4 dm. long, from a moniliform root; branches nodose, slen- 
der, 1-2 dm. long, thinly pubescent. lekers ovate-lanceolate, apic- 
ulate, thin, the midnerve impressed beneath, 5-10 cm. long, 
1.6-3.8 cm. wide, on petioles 2.5-4 mm. long, puberulous. Racemes 
few-flowered, 1.5-2 cm. long, the rachis pubescent; bracts caducous, 
linear-filiform, 1.5-2 mm. long; pedicels at length 6 mm. long, 
thinly pubescent. Flowers 7-8 mm. long, about 5-8. Sepals ovate, 
shortly ciliate, eglandulose, many-nerved. Wings not ciliate, ovate- 
orbicular, nervose, conspicuously longer than corolla. Keel shortly 
unguiculate. Upper petals cuneate, retuse at apex, about half as 
long as keel. Lateral petals squamiform. Capsule elliptic, deeply 
