406 Flora of the Cape Region. [ZOE 
781. CROTON MAGDALEN# Millspaugh.—San José del Cabo 
and in the mountains. Some forms are much less pubescent or 
hirsute than the type from Magdalena Island. 
549. CROTON FRAGILIS HBK. Var.—This is very near the 
variety seviceus of Dr. Palmer’s Chihuahua collection. The 
specimens from different parts of the Cape Region vary from one 
another very much in their pubescence, those from Sierra San 
Lazaro being much larger and more glabrous than those from the 
vicinity of San José del Cabo. 
551. BERNADIA MEXICANA Miill. Arg. var. 2. viridis Millsp. 
This is also the 2. Brandegez Proc. Cal. Acad. ser. 2, vol. iii, 172, 
which is an inadvertence, no species having been described under 
that name. It is arather common bush of the Cape Region at 
middle elevations. 
536. ADELIA VIRGATA. A dicecious shrub 2-3 m. high 
with whitish stems and long almost simple branches studded 
with stout more or less woolly spurs on which are borne the 
crowded leaves and flowers: leaves oblanceolate to oblong or 
obcordate, 114-3 cm. long, sparingly appressed pubescent, soon 
glabrate, cuneate at base to a short petiole: flowers 4-6 at the 
summit of the spurs; pedicels 5-10 mm. long, jointed about the 
middle: calyx valvate, 5-parted, the segments acute, 2-3 mm. 
long densely villous without and within: stamens about 15 
concreted at base with the rudimentary ovary. Ovary of 9? 
flower sessile on the disk, 2—3- ordinarily 2-celled, hirsute; styles 
united at base, fimbriate-lacerate, stigmatiferous over the whole 
inner surface: fruit glabrate commonly 2-coccous, about 2 cm. 
high by 3 cm. in breadth, marked by a cruciform sulcus; seeds 
orbicular the size of a pea with coriaceous brown, somewhat 
mottled testa; endosperm thick; cotyledons reniform.—Widely 
spread over the southern part of the peninsula; now first collected 
in flower. 
782. SALIX TAXIFOLIA HBK.—Growing along streams of 
the western side, but not abundant. Determined by M. S. Bebb. 
783. ARETHUSA ROSEA Benth.—Common on the high 
mountains. 
