. Brigham Young University science bulletin. Biology -- Periodicals. Fig. 27. Cryptantha pterocanja var. cycloptera with numerous ascending branches or many and diffusely branched younger parts, green, strigose and commonly hirsute, epidermis at length ex- foliating leaving the older woody stems glabrous and brown; leaves oblanceolate, acute, hirsute, pustulate, the early ones 3-6 cm long, 6-12 mm broad; racemes apparently forked and panicu- latelv disposed, minutely bracteate, 3-15 cm long; corolla very inconspicuous, limb about 1 mm wide; fruiting calyces oblong-ovoid, 2-4 mm long, slightly
. Brigham Young University science bulletin. Biology -- Periodicals. Fig. 27. Cryptantha pterocanja var. cycloptera with numerous ascending branches or many and diffusely branched younger parts, green, strigose and commonly hirsute, epidermis at length ex- foliating leaving the older woody stems glabrous and brown; leaves oblanceolate, acute, hirsute, pustulate, the early ones 3-6 cm long, 6-12 mm broad; racemes apparently forked and panicu- latelv disposed, minutely bracteate, 3-15 cm long; corolla very inconspicuous, limb about 1 mm wide; fruiting calyces oblong-ovoid, 2-4 mm long, slightly asymmetrical, ascending, tardily deciduous; pedicels usually well developed, 1-4 mm long, slender, frequently nodding; mature calyx-lobes lance-linear, somewhat strigose, hir- sute along the thickened midrib; nutlets 4, het- eromorphous, triangular-ovate, the acute tips slightly outcurved, groove open or closed above but below broadening out into a shallow broad- ly triangular areola; odd nutlet next to the abax- ial calyx-lobe, 1-2 mm long, somewhat persistent, finely muricate or tuberculate, light or dark, consimilar nutlets mm long, acute, tend- ing to be very narrowly wing-margined, dark with pallid tuberculations; gynobase subulate, % length of odd nutlet and about ecjualling con- similar nutlets; style much surpassing the nut- lets. Sandy flats and rcK-ky ridges of the Lower Sonoran Zone. Southwestern Utah, southern Nevada, western Arizona, and southwest to Baja California. March-June. Fig. 28. Washington Co., Black Lava Hill west of St. George, J. W. Harrison (DIX). 19. Cryptantha rectirvata Coville, Contr. Natl. Herb. 4:165. 1893. Type: Surprise Canyon, Panamint Mountains, Coville & Funston 713. Stems branched from the base, slender, as- cending or decumbent at base, 1-3 dm high, stri- gose, root often dye-stained, basal leaves ob- lanceolate or spatulate, cm long, those of the stem remote, linear or lanceolate, 5-10 mm long, rounded or obtus
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