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escence a somewhat flattened cyme ; pedicels very stout and short, 2-4 mm. long; calyx- 

 lobes ovate, obtuse, very short, 2 mm. long; corolla 7 mm. long, reddish, its lobes lan- 

 ceolate, acute, its tube 2 mm. long; stamens all borne at the top of tube, shorter than the 

 corolla ; carpels somewhat sjpreading above and united at base. 



Type locai,ity : San Clemente Island, California. 

 Distribution : Known only from San Clemente Island. 



4. Stylophyllum Traskae Rose, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 3: 34. 1903. 



Caudex thick and woody. Leaves forming a dense rosette, strap-shaped, 4-5 cm. long, 

 8-10 mm. broad, glabrous, acute; flowering branches about 20 cm, long, reddish, with 

 rather small scattered leaves ; inflorescence a rather compact flat-topped cyme ; pedicels 

 short, 2-4 mm. long.; calyx-lobes broadly ovate, acute or obtusish ; corolla bright canary- 

 yellow, 8 mm. long, the lobes somewhat spreading; carpels inclined to spread. 



Type locality : Santa Barbara Island, southern California. 

 Distribution : Known only from Santa Barbara Island. 



5. Stylophyllum semiteres Rose, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 3 : 35. 1903. 



At first acaulescent but old plants decidedly caulescent and branching. Leaves numer- 

 ous, closely set on the caudex, linear, semiterete, about 10 cm. long, often becoming red- 

 dish, acute ; flowering branches about 20 cm. long, their leaves ovate, turgid, acute, the 

 lowest ones often opposite; inflorescence a pair of secund racemes; pedicels very short 

 (1-3 mm. long); caly^ 5 mm. long, its lobes 4 mm. long, ovate, acute; corolla 9 mm. 

 long, its segments united below for about 2 mm., oblong, obtuse, yellowish but tinged 

 with red; stamens borne on the corolla, all shorter than the corolla but those alternating 

 with the lobes shorter than the others; carpels somewhat spreading. 



Type locality : Lower California or the Colorado Desert of California. 

 Distribution : Known only from the type locality. 



6. Stylophyllum insulare Rose, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 3 : 34. 1903. 



Stems very thick and woody, 6-8 cm. in diameter, crowned by a rosette of spreading 

 leaves, the old leaves somewhat persistent. Leaves 11-15 cm. long, 1-1.5 cm. broad above 

 the base, 2 cm. broad at base, fleshy, much flattened except toward the apex, acute, more 

 or less glaucous especially when young; flowering branch stout, purplish, 3-4 dm. long; 

 inflorescence paniculately branched ; primary branches short, nearly equal, two or three 

 times dichotomous, the ultimate branches short and few-flowered ; calyx 3 mm. long, its 

 lobes twice as long as the tube, ovate, acute; corolla 7 mm. long, reddish, somewhat cam- 

 panulate, its tube about the length of the carpels ; carpels united at base, widely spreading. 



Type locality : Santa Catalina Island, California. 

 Distribution : Known only from Santa Catalina Island. 



7. Stylophyllum Hassei Rose, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gar. 3 : 35. 1903. 



Caudex elongated, sometimes about 3 dm. long, 2-3 cm, in diameter, somewhat 

 branching, covered with the old persistent leaves, crowned with a dense erect rosette. 

 Leaves very glaucous, linear, not tapering except toward the apex, 10 cm. long or less, 1 

 cm. wide or less, thick but flattened below, terete and obtuse toward apex; flowering stems 

 weak, their primary branches 1-2-dichotomous, the ultimate branches slender and many- 

 flowered; .calyx small, glaucous, 4 mm. long, cleft to or below the middle, its lobes ovate, 

 acute; corolla-tube about 1 mm. long; carpels widely spreading in age. 



Type locality : Sea beach of Santa Catalina Island, California. 

 Distribution : Known only from Santa Catalina Island. 



8. Stylophyllum edule (Nutt.) Britton & Rose, Bull. N. Y, 



Bot. Gard. 3: 36. 1903. 



Sedum edule Nutt. in T. & G. Fl. N. Am. 1 : 560. 1840. 

 Cotyledon edulis Brewer, Bot. Calif. 1 : 211. 1876. 



Stem a short thick caudex covered with numerous turgid leaves, these nearly terete 

 except at base where somewhat flattened. Flowering stem glabrous, 3-5 dm. high, the 



