NEW SPECIES OF PLANTS, MAINLY FROM BAJA 

 CALIFORNIA. 



T. S. BRANDEGEE. 



Ranunculus australis. R. abortivus austratis, Brandegee, 

 Zoe, iv, 399. Perennial, glabrous, 2-3 dm. high : radical leaves 

 on petioles two-thirds as long as the stems, 3-4 cm. wide, round - 

 reniform, simply or doubly dentate ; cauline once or twice parted 

 into linear divisions : petals bright yellow, 5-6 mm. long : 

 akenes lenticular, glabrous, i)4 mm. long, beakless, in small 

 globular heads. 



From R. abortivus it differs, especially in having long-petioled 

 basal leaves of a different outline. It is common about the 

 higher summits of the Cape Region Mountains. 



Halpighia diversifolia. A spreading bush 1-2 m. high, 

 young stems slightly pubescent, dark brown : mature leaves 4 

 cm. long and wide, orbicular to broadly ovate, on pubescent 

 petioles 2 mm. long, rounded or the ovate ones bluntly pointed, 

 hirsute below and nearly glabrous above ; younger leaves more 

 hirsute upon both faces, especially so upon the lower; stipules 

 minute, hirsute : umbels 2-4 flowered ; peduncles hirsute, 1-3 cm. 

 long, the pedicles 1 cm. long, jointed nearer the base ; bracts and 

 bracteolae minute ; calyx lobes ovate-lanceolate, acute, hirsute : 

 petals rose-colored, 7 mm. long, more than twice the length of 

 the calyx, deeply fringed-laciniate, with a claw 3 mm. long, and 

 an orbicular blade 6 mm. wide : stamens united at base ]/i their 

 length ; sepals with two large glands at base excepting one 

 which has a gland on each side, at the sinus : fruit depressed, 

 15 mm. wide. 



Common about San Jose del Cabo. The fruit is called by the 

 people manzanita, and without any special reason is sometimes 

 eaten by them. In the Flora of the Cape Region it is listed as 

 M. Galleotiana ? to which species and M. retusa, by their char- 

 acters, it seems to be nearest. 



Rarely some of the leaves are retuse or may be somewhat 

 lobed near the apex. 



