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13. Uva-ursi vestita (Eastw.) Abrams. 
Arctostaphylos vestita Eastw. in Sarg. Trees & Shrubs 1: 205. 1905. 
Anerect divaricately branching shrub, 1 m. or more high, with the bark on the old branches 
and trunks brown, shreddy, and persistent; branchlets tomentose; leaf-blades oblong, ovate, 
or elliptic, obtuse or acute and apiculate at the apex, cordate to obtuse at the base, 25-40 
mm. long, thin-coriaceous, bright-green and sparsely tomentose on the upper surface, hoary- 
tomentose on the lower; petioles 3-4 mm. long, tomentose; branches of the ample panicles 
densely tomentose; bracts toward the base of the panicle more or less foliaceous, 8-12 mm. 
long, those subtending the pedicels lanceolate, acuminate, firm and persistent, 5-7 mm. long, 
densely tomentose; pedicels stout, tomentose, equaling or exceeding the bracts; calyx-lobes 
broadly ovate, ciliate on the margins, more or less revolute; corolla pink, 7-8 mm. long; ovary 
densely tomentose; fruit light-brown, depressed-globose; nutlets irregularly coalescent. 
oo LOCALITY: Monterey, California, on the sandy plain between Hotel del Monte and the 
seashore. 
DISTRIBUTION: Vicinity of Monterey, California. 
ILLUSTRATION: Sarg. Trees & Shrubs l. 97. 
14, Uva-ursi Andersonii (A. Gray) Abrams. 
Arctostaphylos Andersonii A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 11: 83. 1876. 
An arborescent shrub, usually 3-4 m. high, with erect branches, smooth rather dark red- 
dish-brown bark, and densely setose-hispid and glandular-villous branchlets; leaves crowded, 
the blades often 4-6 cm. long, ovate-oblong, acute or obtuse at the apex, sessile or nearly so 
and clasping at the base, nearly glabrous above and shining, more or less tomentose below; 
flowers in ample panicles; branches of the inflorescence, bracts, and pedicels densely glandular- 
villous; bracts more or less foliaceous; corolla 6-7 mm. long, white tinged with pink; ovary 
densely hairy and more or less glandular; fruit becoming nearly smooth, depressed-globose, 
6-8 mm. broad; nutlets irregularly coalescent. 
Tyre Locality: Mountain slopes near Santa Cruz, California. 
DisTRIBUTION: Santa Cruz Mountains, California, 
15. Uva-ursi auriculata (Eastw.) Abrams. 
Arctostaphylos auriculata Eastw. Bull. Torrey Club 32: 202. 1905. 
A shrub I-1.5 m. high, with erect branches, smooth dark reddish-brown bark, and glaucous 
branchlets clothed with whitish tomentum interspersed with long whitish hairs; leaf-blades 
oblong to ovate, obtuse or acute and mucronate at the apex, nearly or quite sessile and strongly 
auriculate at the base, crowded and overlapping on the branches, tomentose; flowers in close 
drooping panicles; bracts linear, sessile, acute or obtuse at the apex, about .1 cm. long; calyx- 
lobes orbicular, ciliate on the margins, otherwise glabrous; corolla rose-colored, 6-7 mm. 
long; ovary densely covered with spreading hairs; fruit depressed globose, light-brown. 
Typx Locauiry: Mt. Diablo, California. 
DISTRIBUTION: Vicinity of Mt. Diablo. 
16. Uva-ursi pechoensis (Dudley) Abrams. 
Arctostaphylos pechoensis Dudley, in herb. 
A low shrub about 1 m. high or less, with smooth dark reddish-brown bark, and pale 
finely tomentose bragichlets; leaf-blades ovate to ovate-oblong, acute and mucronate at the 
apex, strongly auriculate and clasping at the nearly or quite sessile base, pale, firm-coriaceous, 
prominently netted-veined on the lower surface, finely and sparsely tomentose; flowers in 
congested panicles; bracts broadly lanceolate, 8-12 mm. long, finely tomentose and somewhat 
viscid; pedicels nearly or quite smooth, 1 cm. long in fruit; calyx-lobes broadly ovate, ciliate 
on the margins, otherwise glabrous; corolla 6-7 mm. long, white tinged with pink; ovary 
sparsely hairy toward the summit; fruit depressed-globose; inutlets irregularly coalescent, thin 
and acutely carinate on the back. 
Type collected at the head of Wild Cherry Canyon, Pecho Mountains, San Luis Obispo County, 
California, April 5, 1902, W. R. Dudley (Dudiey Herb. of Stanford Univ.). 
DISTRIBUTION: Outer coast ranges, San Luis Obispo County, California. 
