120 LEAFLETS. 
along the veins: flower-clusters many, simple and racemose, or 
slightly panicled; fruiting panicles spreading but not pendu- 
lous or even nodding: fruit not seen. 
A remarkable species, as seeming ambiguous between the 
Atlantic and Pacific types of the genus. Mr. Suksdorf, who 
collects it in rocky places along the Columbia east of the Cascades, 
and therefore on the borders of the arid region, distributes it for 
“ R. diversiloba,” which it certainly is far from being. Its 
foliage is that of ZLodadium, i. e. Schmalizia, 
"P corntaceum. Very stout rigidly upright stems minutely 
and sparsely puberulent and minutely lenticellate : leaves sub- 
coriaceous or almost hard-coriaceous, dark olive green, pale 
beneath, both faces almost or quite glabrous ; leaflets very large, 
ovate to round-ovate, obtuse or acutish, usually quite entire, 
only here and there a leaflet with a serrate tooth or two on one 
-side, the largest and broadest 24 inches long, 24 inches broad, 
none much shorter and none narrow: panicles merely ascending, 
the branches and pedicels short and rigid: fruits of the largest, 
depressed-globose; epicarp polished and striate, and under a 
lens minutely, sparsely, but distinctly hispidulous. 
A single excellent specimen in U. S. Herb. exhibits all the 
above pronounced specific characters. Its home must be at 
least on the borders of arid eastern Washington, where it was 
collected by Mr. Suksdorf in 1885, but just where, the label 
fails to indicate. 
T. COMAROPHYLLUM. Stems upright, leafy branches light 
red-brown, obscurely puberulent, well marked with small elliptic 
lenticels: leaflets obovate-deltoid, the terminal 1 or 2 inches 
long and petiolulate, the laterals half as large, sessile, all entire 
except around and across the nearly truncate apex which is 
almost as broad as the leaflet’s length, here crenate-toothed, the 
upper face dark-green, the lower pale, both glabrous: fruit in 
loose pendulous clusters both notably compressed and elongated. 
being round-oval, but obtuse, the epicarp very thin and fragile, 
delicately puberulent: putamen strongly striate. 
From Tighe’s, near San Diego, Calif., Dr. Edw. Palmer, 1875. 
The inverse-deltoid leaflets, dentate across the summit, are 
much like those of most strawberry leaflets; hence the name, 
