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pubescent at least peau or oe gph tnyaite brownish or purplish, often shiny. Basal leaves 
12 . long, 1.5-4 m y 
few to mag i wide, oblanceolate to obovate or spatulate, mostl 
pubescent on both La ag igh isin with a gis: Axis ; ee mostly 1-2 cm. long , fruit, wide- 
a eainn ascending at bas e in an upward curve and abruptly turned again upward at tip, glabrous; 
racts 2-4 mm. long, lanc orice - page or sr “folded oat nd the base of the abies shortly 
sl rather stiffly ciliate- aide e ma mes on one or both surfaces, occa- 
sionally = glabrous ; nah ‘divide d neat i the “bast! the lobes linear-lanceolate; corolla 
5-8 mm. long, the tube much exceeding the calyx-lobes, ae or slightly tinged _— pink, upper 
pe bearded at we base within, with i yellowish s pot at base of each lobe; filament-tube 3 Ps 
m. lon ule 3- . long, fusiform, entirely free fined the calyx ol saarly § Hy Feeds luis 
m ng 
ellipsoid ‘vith " hice: undulate, longitudi nal tf and ill-defined f 
Dry, sandy or gravelly plains or slopes, Sonoran Zones; cismontane ya Cantor from Los 
Angeles "County and western San Herhbrding County south to northern Lower California. Type locality: 
“S. E. California, Wallace, Lemmon.’”’ The Wallace. collection probably was made heneeeia os Angeles 
and San Bernardino. May—June. Hone" —_ Thread- pee: 
Nemacladus longiflorus var. brevifldrus McVaugh, Am Midl, 22: 526. 1939. Plant pobpecess, 
the leaves especially more densely ubes a as well as the pny cilovia and calyx- neal Ps see 3-3.5 mm 
long; filament-tube 2.2-2.8 Bg long. included in the corolla. a slopes of the mo ns bordering the 
western edges of the Moj and Colorado Deserts, southern Cali gion Fa adjac at ge California. 
Type locality: “Roadside Mink, pay Tueson and Sells, Pima et riz 
2. Nemacladus sigmoideus G. T. Robbins. Small-flowered Nemacladus. 
‘Fig. 5099. 
Nemacladus sigmoideus G. T. Robbins, Aliso 4: 144. 1958. 
Plants 4-12 cm. high, the stems often many and intricately much-branched, P canty or less short- 
ube at base and glabrous above, purplish brown. Basal leaves 1.5-7(10 m. long, ovate 
hickish, short-pubescent, entire or irregularly crenate- -dentate ; Besse markedly 
Zigz icels 10-18 mm. long, finely capillary, wide-spreading in a do uble curve, this more 
ra age in Ste plants, aks ded by minute, ovate, nade iticate Bi acts ; ei bls erect; 
ong, Piper (ben ge be tube itatedt white; about one-half i erior, about 
as Raed os as ide and scarcely exceeding the calyx-lobes ; sees teoedty cllipactd, ‘pintieod with 
obscure, undulate or ae ia ngi ‘tudinal lines and shallow 
Slopes and open desert, Sonoran Zon Ormsby Nevada, as ard along the eastern face of 
the Sierra Nevada, California, to the Mojave ‘and ‘Colsrads | Deserts and western vanes a 4 to _ deserts; 
also Mohave County, Arizona e locality berms fork of Little Rock Creek Canyon, Los Ang s County, 
California. May-July. Small- ekenta Thread. plar 
Bs pe pessies gracilis Eastw. Slender Nemacladus. Fig. 5100. 
Ni Eastw. Bull. Torrey Club 30: 500. 1903. 
Nemacladus paosicsoanl var. gracilis Munz, Amer. Journ. Bot. 11: 240. 1924. 
Plants i cm. high, the stems apie or branched, zigzag, yiccosac at sage Seay sa a0 
or wholl labrous, cen ish or purplish. Basal leaves 2.5-6 m ather n oblon 
saticsutelat a more or less crenatedentat te to subpin nati, “tually ear lb atone come “i sanet 
so; inflorescence 2-ranked, ; pedicels finely capillary, wide-spreading in a double curve 
with — a or nea arly = rac ts 2 mm. or pee glabrous or ciliate on ma s 
ng, gla 
t apex, conduplicate at base concealing the icel; corolla 1 mm. 
long, cintgartlane ae Pri the Pi bes oblong, usually a little longer than the tube, this ——— or 
barely surpassing the calyx ; filament-tube abruptly curved near the tip; capsule 1 .5-2.5 mm. long, 
5099. Nemacladus sigmoideus 
5098. Nemacladus longiflorus 
