Anulocaulis annulatus (Coville) Standl.

Anulocaulis annulatus (Coville) Standley, Contr. XL S. Nat
Herb. 12: 375. 1909.
Boerhaavia annulala Coville, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 4: 177. 1893.
Plants erect from a decumbent base, 5-10 dm. high, sparsely branched below, loosely paniculate above, the branches stout, glaucescent, at least below, glabrous except at the villous nodes; petioles stout, 2-4 cm. long; leaf-blades broadly oval to ovate-oval or ovate-deltoid, 3-8 cm. long, 2-6 cm. wide, subcordate or rounded at the base and subequal, rounded at the apex or rarely only obtuse, coriaceous, shallowly and irregularly repand-dentate, yellowishgreen above and hirsute with slender hairs having dark enlarged glandular bases, paler beneath and densely hirsute with similar hairs; inflorescence nearly naked, the branches slender, the flowers in dense many-flowered headlike long-pedunculate umbels; bracts short, lanceolate, hirsute, the hairs with glandular bases; perianth 8 mm. long, greenish, the tube stout, longvillous, gradually dilated into a campanulate limb; stamens 3, short-exserted; fruit biturbinate, 5 mm. long, glabrous.
Type locality: Furnace Creek Canyon, Funeral Mountains, Inyo County, California.
Distribution: Inyo County, California.

Anulocaulis annulatus (Coville) Standley, Contr. U. S. Nat
Herb. 12: 375. 1909.
Boerhaavia annulata Coville, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 4: 177. 1893.
Plants erect from a decumbent base, 5-10 dm. high, sparsely branched below, loosely paniculate above, the branches stout, glaucescent, at least below, glabrous except at the villous nodes; petioles stout, 2-4 cm. long; leaf-blades broadly oval to ovate-oval or ovate-deltoid, 3-8 cm. long, 2-6 cm. wide, subcordate or rounded at the base and subequal, rounded at the apex or rarely only obtuse, coriaceous, shallowly and irregularly repand-dentate, yellowishgreen above and hirsute with slender hairs having dark enlarged glandular bases, paler beneath and densely hirsute with similar hairs; inflorescence nearly naked, the branches slender, the flowers in dense many-flowered headtike long-pedunculate umbels; bracts short, lanceolate, hirsute, the hairs with glandular bases; perianth 8 mm. long, greenish, the tube stout, longvillous, gradually dilated into a campanulate limb; stamens 3, short-exserted; fruit biturbinate, 5 mm. long, glabrous.
Type locality: Furnace Creek Canyon, Funeral Mountains, Inyo County, California. Distribution: Inyo County, California.