138 LEAFLETS. 
S. BOTRYOIDES. Stoutish and with rigid ascending branches 
after the first season glabrate and gray, when growing finely 
puberulent: leaves subcoriaceous, of a deep but glaucescent 
green above, quite glaucous beneath, hardly pubescent except 
marginally and on the veins beneath ; terminal leaflet 1 inch 
long, cuneate-obovate, 3-lobed, with or without secondary lobes, 
all lobes and teeth ending somewhat acutely: fruits copious in 
a compact terminal thyrsus like a bunch of grapes, the drupe 
globose and as if with little pulpiness, the epicarp thinly and 
finely hirsute. 
Fort Apache, Ariz., June, 1900, Dr. Edw. Palmer, n. 590 as 
in U.S. Herb. 
S. @LAUCA. Branches dark red-brown, puberulent ; foliage 
glabrous, glaucous on both faces, most so beneath; all leaflets 
very obtuse and obtusely lobed, the terminal 1 to 2 inches long; 
of round-ovate outline with short abrupt entire base not very 
cuneate, each margin with about 3 broad sinuate lobes, the 
larger emarginate: spikes 3 to 5; bracts round-obovate, longer 
than broad, puberulent on the back, scarcely more so on the 
margin: no fruit seen. 
In the vicinity of Durango, Mexico, 1896, Dr. Edw. Palmer, 
n. 785 as in U. S. Herb. 
S. SCABERULA. Twigsof the season dark brown, puberulent, 
later glabrous, dull blackish: foliage small, subcoriaceeus, not 
pubescent, the dark green upper surface granular-scaberulous, 
the pale lower face more obscurely so: terminal leaflet 1 to 14 
inches long, broadly rhomboid, tapering abruptly from towards 
the middle, indistinctly 3-lobed, each lobe with 3 secondary lobes 
or rounded teeth; lateral leaflets round-obovate, evenly and 
obtusely lobed or crenate all around save at the subtruncate 
base: fruits orange-colored, granulate-roughened, glabrous or 
with a few short bristly hairs. 
Cochuto, Sonora, Mexico, C. V. oe Oct. 1890, n. 80 as 
in U. S. Herb. 
S. MALACOPHYLLA. Branches rather stout, soft-pubescent 
for two seasons; leaves of a rather light green, villous-pubes- 
