Parr, 1914] ERICACEAE 97 
nutlets broader than long, usually 2 or more coalescent or rarely all united into an irregular 
stone. 
eR LOCALITY -, Mountain slope in es vicinity of Calistoga, California, 
RIBUTION: Coast ranges of northern and central Californi i 
Geli Costa Cora, g ifornia, from Mendocino County to 
InLustrations: Erythea 7: pl. 3. 
11. Uva-ursi insularis (Greene) Abrams. 
Arctostaphylos insularis Greene; Parry, Bull. Calif. Acad. 2: 494. 1887. 
A symmetrically branched shrub, 1-2 m. high, with smooth reddish-brown bark and 
pale-green glabrous or sparsely glandular-pubescent branchlets; leaf-blades ovate, mostly 
3-4 cm. long, narrowed at base to the petioles, glabrous, bright-green and shining on both 
surfaces; flowers in open panicles; bracts short, triangular or those near the base of the panicle 
foliaceous, glabrous; pedicels glandular hairy; fruit smooth, light-brown, slightly depressed, 
6~8 mm. broad; nutlets irregularly coalescent. 
Tyre LocaLity: Santa Cruz Island, off the coast of southern California. 
DISTRIBUTION: Santa Cruz Island. 
12. Uva-ursi tomentosa (Pursh) Abrams, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 
6: 433. 1910. 
Arbutus tomentosa Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 1: 282. 1814. 
Arbutus tomentosa hispida Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 36. 1834. 
Arbutus tomentosa nuda Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 36. 1834. 
Arctostaphylos tomentosa Lindl. Bot. Reg. 21: pl. 1791. 1836. 
Arctostaphylos tomentosa hispida Lindl. Bot. Reg. 21: under pl. 1791, 1836. 
Arctostaphylos tomentosa nuda Lindl. Bot. Reg. 21: under pl. 1791. 1836. 
Arctostaphylos cordifolia Lindl. Bot. Reg. 21: under pl. 1791. 1836. 
Andromeda bracteosa DC. Prodr. 7: 607. 1839. 
Andromeda bracteosa trichoclada DC. Prodr. 7: 607. 1839. 
Andromeda bracteosa hebeclada DC. Prodr. 7: 607. 1839. 
Xerobotrys cordifolius Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. II. 8: 268. 1843. 
Xerobotrys tomentosus Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. II. 8: 267. 1843. 
Daphnidostaphylis tomentosa Klotzsch, Linnaea 24: 79, 1851. 
Daphnidostaphylis cordifolia Klotzsch, Linnaea 24: 81. 1851. 
Arctostaphylos media Greene, Pittonia 2: 171. 1891. 
Arctostaphylos glandulosa Eastw. Proc. Calif. Acad. III. 1: 82. 1897. 
Arctostaphylos canescens Hastw. Proc. Calif. Acad. III. 1: 84. 1897. 
Arctostaphylos intermedia Greene; Howell, Fl. NW. Am. 1: 415. 1901. (Misprint for A. media.) 
Arctostaphylos hispidula Howell, Fl. NW. Am. 1: 415. 1901. 
Arctostaphylos oblongifolia Howell, Fl. NW. Am. 1: 416. 1901. 
Arctostaphylos parvifolia Howell, Fl. NW. Am. 1: 416. 1901. 
Arctostaphylos intricata Howell, Fl. NW. Am. 1: 416. 1901. 
Arctostaphylos cinerea Howell, Fl. NW. Am. 1: 416. 1901. 
Arctostaphylos bracteata Howell, Fl. NW. Am. 1: 417. 1901. 
Arctostaphylos stigosa Howell, Fl. NW. Am. 1: 417. 1901. 
Arctostaphylos virgata Eastw. in Sarg. Trees & Shrubs 1: 203. 1905. 
An erect branching shrub, forming a low compact rounded bush a meter or more high, or 
sometimes arborescent and 3~-4 m. high; bark smooth, bright or dark reddish-brown; young 
branchlets more or less tomentose and often setose-hispid or glandular-villous; leaf-blades 
petioled, broadly ovate to oblong-lanceolate, mostly more than 25 mm. long, varying from rather 
dark-green and nearly glabrous to densely canescent or glandular-pubescent at least toward the 
base; flowers in open or crowded panicles; bracts usually more or less foliaceous, often longer 
than the pedicels, persistent; pedicels variously pubescent or sometimes glabrate; calyx- 
lobes ovate to orbicular, nearly or quite glabrous, more or less ciliate on the margins; corolla 
white to rose-colored, 6-7 mm. long; filaments densely bearded at the base to nearly glabrous; 
ovary densely tomentose and more or less glandular to almost naked; fruit depressed-globose, 
6-8 mm. broad, light yellowish-brown to deep chestnut-brown, glabrous, more or less tomentose 
or glandular; ntutlets irregularly coalescent, acutely carinate. 
TYPE Locality: Northwest coast of America. : : 
DISTRIBUTION: Southern British Columbia to northern Lower California; most abundant and 
variable in the coast ranges of California. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Bot. Mag. 3320; Bot. Reg. 21: pl. 1791; Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. pl. 130; Sarg. 
Trees & Shrubs pl. 96; M. E. Parsons, Wild Fl. Calif. 13. 
