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pods, these with never a trace of the usual bloom, and shining as of 
they had been varnished. 
(54.) Cercis orbiculata Greene, nov. spec. 
Ramuli purpurascentes, glaberrimi. Folia suborbicularia, 3,5—6,5 
longitudinaliter metientia, at paululo latiora quam longiora, apice retusa, 
basi valde cordato-lobata, sinu omnino clauso, supra glauca, subtus laete 
virentia et venis tenuibus sed prominulis albicantibus notata. Legumen 
immaturum pro genere parvum, utrinque acutum, brevissime stipitatum. 
Rocky ravines in the Diamond Valley, southern Utah, 19 May, 
1902, Leslie N. Goodding; specimens on sheet 485475 of U. S. Herb. 
Remarkable among members of this genus by the leaves which, by 
their broad deep overlapping basal lobes, give the appearance of being 
peltate. 
(55.) Cercis latissima Greene, nov. spec. 
Ramuli annotini atrorubentes, glabri, glauci. Folia orbicularia, 
6—9 cm diametientia, basi plus minus profunde cordata, apice retusa, 
utraque pagina saturate viridia et omnino glabra, vix conspicue venosa, 
Legumen magnum, 9 cm longum, 2,5 cm latum, viride, glaucum, in- 
curvum, 
A Californian species, from some unrecorded station in the moun- 
tains of the state, collected in 1902 by Mr. Geo. B. Grant of Pasadena. 
The leaves of the species are the largest known in the genus, usually 
a trifle broader than long. The pods are the broadest known, and 
present the the unique character of a downwardly curved dorsal suture, 
the curve strong enough to lay the the pod in folds along the ventral 
suture. 
(56.) Cercis nephrophylla Greene, nov. spec. 
Ramuli una cum foliis leguminibusque primum subpuberuli, dein £ 
glabrati. Folia subreniformia, latitudinaliter usque 5—7 cm, longitu- 
dinaliter 3,5—5,5 cm  metientia, basi valde cordata, apice late sub- 
truneata verumtamen distincte emarginata, supra glauca, subtus laetius 
viridia absque omni glaucomate. Legumen satis latum at breviculum, 
saepius ellipticum et 1--2-spermum, interdum magis elongatum et 3- 
spermum. : 
Indigenous to some uncertain mountain district in south western 
California, in San Diego County, whence the two sheets of specimens 
before me were brought as long ago as 1875, one of them by Edward 
Palmer, the other by G. R. Vasey. Easily distinguished from the 
common shrub of middle and northern California by its faint indument, 
and short, though at the same time broad, few-seeded pods. In the two | 
specimens 9 of them are one-seeded, 7 are two-seeded, which only 3 are a 
little longer and 3-seeded. Even the mature pods show a trace of that 
minute indument which probably invests all the pods of the shrub that 
are young and growing. 
