78 A New Tapirira from Baja California, [ZOE 
lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, generally longer than the petioles; 
calyx with the upper lip truncately notched and the other teeth 
deltoid, acute or obtuse, shorter than the tube; bracts ovate- 
acuminate, surpassing the pedicels. 
T. macrophylla grows in dry sand and has erect stems. The 
leaflets are thick, coriaceous, elliptical-oblong, acute at each end, © 
3 or 4 inches long, 1-3 inches broad, almost smooth on the upper 
surface, tomentose on the lower; stipules unequal-sided, ovate- 
lanceolate, acuminate, almost twice as long as the petioles; 
calyx angled, the upper lip barely toothed, the others lanceolate- 
acuminate, as long as the tube; pods immature, erect or falcate; 
bracts ovate, attenuate to a slender acumination. 
The plant from Mendocino County, spoken of above, has much 
longer leaves, proportionally narrower; stipules broader and 
“shorter. The calyx is not angled and the teeth are shorter. 
The bracts are less attenuate. When this is better known it 
may prove to be a distinct species, or all these Californian forms 
may be considered only geographical varieties of a polymorphous 
species. They must be studied in the field or, better still, culti- 
vated in separate patches in the same garden before their status 
can be finally settled. 
A NEW TAPIRIRA FROM BAJA CALIFORNIA. 
T. S. BRANDEGEE. 
Tapirira edulis. A tree 5-7 m. high with spreading 
branches and a trunk 24 m. in diameter, bark smooth and gray; 
leaves 8-10 cm. long, odd-pinnate and like the young branches 
pubescent; leaflets usually 4 pairs, sessile, 1-2% cm. long, 1-1% 
em. wide, elliptical, apiculate; flowers dicecious, appearing with 
the young leaves, petals and sepals imbricated in the bud: male 
panicles 2-3 cm. long, bracteolate, 10-20 flowered, the female 
much smaller, 2-4-flowered; petals 5, oblong, 2'mm. long, pointed, 
