284 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 
C. bicolor Humb. & Bonpl. and the C. caerulea of Humboldt, Bonpland, and Kunth, 
but their plant is described as having acute leaves and very short pedicels (1 line 
long). 
Ceanothus goldmanii Rose, sp. nov. 
Shrub 2 to4 meters high; young branches reddish-pubescent; leaves opposite; 
ovate to orbicular in outline, acute or obtuse, the margin bearing a few sharp teeth, 
thick and coriaceous, puberulent above, pubescent beneath; pedicels glabrous; petals 
white. 
Jommon in the mountains of Northern Lower California. 
Specimens examined: 
Lower California: La Huerta, E. A. Goldman, June 2, 1905 (no. 1126, type). 
San Pedro Martir Mountains, Kk. A. Goldman, July 5, 1905 (no. 1207); also 
T. S. Brandegee, May 28, 1889. 
Type U. 8. National Herbarium no. 565036. 
This species has heretofore been passing as C. rigidus, but it grows in very different 
situations, and has very characteristic leaves with white instead of pink flowers. 
Ceanothus lanuginosus (Jones) Rose. 
Ceanothus greggii lanuginosus Jones, Proc. Calif. Acad. II. 5: 629. 1895, 
Mr. Jones’s variety seems quite distinct from the true C. greggii and surely deserves 
specific rank. 
Ceanothus parvifolius (8. Wats.) Rose. 
Ceanothus azureus parvifolius 8. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 28: 270. 1880, 
Ceanothus submontanus Rose, sp. nov. 
Shrub, 1 to 3 meters high, much branched; bark of first year’s branches reddish, 
covered with soft cinereous pubescence, the older branches light gray; leaves 
opposite, oblong-cuneate, pale and pubescent above, pubescent beneath, 6 to 16 mm. 
long, entire, rounded at apex; pedicels slender, glabrous, and somewhat glutinose 
in age; capsule globular, 5 mm. in diameter, bearing three prominent projections 
above the middle. 
Collected by FE. A. Goldman near Alamo, Lower California, July 11, 1905 (no. 
1140, type) and at Pifion on northwest slope of San Pedro Martir Mountains, July 
5, 1905 (no. 1209). 
The type is U. 8. National Herbarium no. 365049. 
This species belongs to the section Cerastes and is nearest C. cuneatus, but differs 
from the typical specimens of that species in the nature and color of the pubescence, 
in having the leaves paler above and not so white beneath, and in its more globular 
fruit. 
VITACEAE. 
A NEW CISSUS. 
Cissus subtruncata Kose, sp. nov. 
Stems creeping or climbing; softly pubescent; leaves broadly ovate, rounded-trun- 
cate or slightly cordate at base, obtuse, acute or slightly acuminate, densely lanate- 
pubescent beneath especially when young, more or less pubescent above; inflores- 
cence compound, subumbellate, pubescent; pedicels slender, pubescent, nodding in 
fruit; calyx cup-shaped, pubescent; sepals rounded, scarious-margined; pedicels gla- 
brous, 2mm. long; ovary glabrous; style glabrous, 1 to 1.5 mm, long. 
Collected by J. N. Rose near Oaxaca City, June, 1899 (no. 4614). 
Type U. 8. National Herbarium no, 346595, 
This species differs in several respects from true C. sicyoides, especially in its hairy 
pedicels and very pubescent young leaves. 
