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Beloperone californica Benth. 
This handsome species was taken in flower on Cerralvo Island, February 12. It 
was common there as a shrub 1.2 to 1.8 meters high. It was originally described 
from material taken at Cape San Lucas on the voyage of the Sulphur. Brandegee 
says its red blossoms may be seen at most localities south of Magdalena Bay. 
Justicia insolita T. S. Brandeg. 
A flowering specimen of this species was taken at an altitude between 360 and 
600 meters in the hills 20 miles east of San Ignacio, October 19. A few shrubs 1.2 to 
1.8 meters high were seen, The species was originally described from material col- 
lected at San Gregorio by Brandegee on his overland journey from Magdalena Bay 
to San Quintin. He records it also from Todos Santos and La Paz in the Cape 
District. 
Justicia palmeri Rose. 
This species was common along the basal slopes of the Victoria Mountains. It 
grows as a shrub 1.2 to 1.8 meters high. A flowering specimen was taken on the 
road from San Pedro to Tres Pachitas, December 24. Brandegee records it from La 
Paz and San José del Cabo. 
Ruellia sp. 
An undetermined Ruellia was noted near San Pablo and was seen at intervals from 
that point southward to near Cape San Lucas, mainly on the warmer slopes of canyons 
in the hill country along the backbone of the Peninsula. It is a shrub about a meter 
high with purple flowers, and with a peculiar fragrance which I had learned to asso- 
ciate with a similar plant of the arid Tropical Zone in western Mexico. Specimens 
were collected at Tinaja de San Esteban, 25 miles north of San Ignacio. 
RUBIACEAE. Madder Family. 
Chiococca racemosa Jacq. 
A specimen of this shrub in fruit was taken at about 750 meters on the road between 
San Bernardo and El Satz in the Victoria Mountains. It was a rather common 
species on the mountain side, growing 1.8 to 3.5 meters high. The species has a 
very wide range in tropical America and evidently belongs to the tropical element 
of the flora of the Peninsula. Brandegee records it from the foothills of the Sierra 
San Francisquito. 
CAPRIFOLIACEAE. Honeysuckle Family. 
Lonicera interrupta Benth. 
Common in the Upper Sonoran Zone on the west slope of the Sierra del Pinal and 
San Pedro M&rtir mountains, from near the coast at Ensenada to at least 1,560 meters 
near E] Rayo and above San Antonio. Collected in flower in a canyon a few miles 
east of Ensenada, May 31. 
Sambucus glauca Nutt. BLUE ELDERBERRY. 
Elders, provisionally referred to this species, were noted ina number of places 
along the road from Ensenada northward to the international boundary at Tijuana 
and from sea level upward through the Upper Sonoran Zone to above 1,500 meters. 
The only specimens were taken May 20, at Ensenada, where the species was then 
flowering. Brandegee records S. glauca as ‘‘not common on San Pedro Martir.”’ 
