SUNFLOWER FAMILY 497 
Plants tr about 25 cm. high; nye minutely and sparsely strigillose. Leaves linear or 
linear-lanceolate, 1. = cm. lo i 1-3 mm. wide, nag ed Soot -tipped, e ntire, revolute-margined, 
1-nerved, puber hod : heads n arly cy lindr ric, 1 cm. high; phyllaries scien | puberulous ; corol- 
las ochroleucous or w whit ish ; achenes hispidulous on the ike 3.5 mm. long; pappus- -bristles 6 mm 
long, ihe squamellae 0.5 mm. lon 
In desert washes, Lower ponerey 4 pe! Split Mountain and Carriso Mountain in the Colorado Desert, Im- 
pe County, "California, to Lower California and Sonora. Type locality: near Los Angeles Bay, Lower ’Cali- 
132. HOFMEISTERIA Walp. Rep. 6: 106. 1846-47. 
nts suffrutescent or shrubby, branching. Leaves alternate or opposite, usually fleshy, 
Erbe to pinnatisect, the petioles usually much longer than the blades. Heads discoid, 
OW , 
outer gee with short Harbaccors tips. saree flat, naked. Corollas all —— 
5869. Evax acaulis 
rich 
5872. Malperia tenuis 
