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the corolla lobes, fimbriate : anthers sagittate-acuminate : fila- 

 ments hardly widened at the base : ovary hirsute ; fruit un- 

 known. 



Collected near San Jose del Cabo, where it grows amongst 

 Rhamnaceous shrubs, and when in full bloom in May, its fra- 

 grance fills the air. It is characterized by the slender stems and 

 short thorn-like branches that bear leaves and sometimes flowers, 

 and its closely aggregated usually leafless fascicles of flowers. 

 It much resembles B. spiniflora, Caiques des Dess. Fl, Mex., 753, 

 differing in the more crowded fascicles of flowers, their longer 

 pubescent pedicels and other minor details. 



Bumelia peninsularis. A bush 3-4 m. high, much branched 

 from the base, with stout subulate axillary thorns, the young 

 shoots, petioles and under surface of leaves rusty-pubescent ; 

 leaves thin-coriaceous, elliptical or obovate-lanceolate, 2-4 cm. 

 long, tapering to a slender petiole 4-6 mm. long : peduncles sub- 

 glabrous, stout, clavate, as long or longer than the flower ; calyx 

 segments ovate ; corolla lobes, 3 mm. long, equalling the inner 

 segments of the calyx; appendages and stout staminodia more 

 or less fimbriate, acuminate, equalling the stamens ; filaments 

 shorter than the anthers; ovary glabrous: fruit 15 mm. long, 

 elliptical, fleshy. 



Found in the Cape Region Mountains. The flowers are small 

 for the genus, usually in fascicles of 4-6 in the axils of the leaves 

 but sometimes apparently scattered along the branches. The 

 leaves are venulose-reticulated and not fascicled. The fruit is 

 large when compared with that of other species of the genus. 



Gilia uncialis. Annual, sparingly pubescent, 2-4 era. high, 

 stems usually simple, rarely 1-2 branches near the base : leaves 

 narrow-linear, 3-4 mm. long : flower white, terminating the stem, 

 often with 1-2 additional ones from the axils of the upper leaves, 

 on pedicels 5 mm. long: corolla funnelform, 4-6 mm. long ; 

 lobes denticulated, slightly exceeding the linear calyx lobes : 

 ovules about 10 in each cell. 



This Gilia is closely allied to G. dianthoides, and its most 

 obvious difference is a small corolla, but there is no resemblancto 



