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17. Uva-ursi viscida (Parry) Abrams. 
Arctostaphylos viscida Parry, Bull. Calif. Acad. 2: 492. 1887. 
Arctostaphylos pulchella Howell, Fl. NW. Am. 1: 416. 1901. 
An erect branching shrub forming a rounded compact bush, 2-4 m. high, with dark 
reddish-brown smooth bark and pale glaucous-green glabrous or rarely somewhat tomentose 
branchlets; leaf-blades suborbicular to oblong, usually ovate, 25-40 mm. long, rounded to 
acutish and apiculate at the apex, cordate to acute at the base, very pale glaucous-green and 
glabrous, firm-coriaceous; petioles 8-12 mm. long; branches of the open panicles glabrous; 
bracts triangular-acuminate, 2-3 mm. long, glabrous, the tip more or less deciduous; pedicels 
very slender, 10-12 mm. long, villous-glandular and viscid; calyx-lobes ovate, the thin margins 
revolute, more or less ciliate; corolla light-pink, broadly urceolate, 7-9 mm. long; ovary glab- 
rous; fruit depressed-globose, 6-8 mm. broad, light-brown; nutlets 4 or 5, 1 or 2 broad and 
2-3-celled, carinate and roughened on the back. 
Type Locauity: The middle foothills of the Sierra Nevada, from central California to the 
Oregon line. 
DistRIBUTION: Southern Oregon to the foothills of the northern coast ranges and the southern 
Sierra Nevada, California. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Sierra Club Bull. 3: 305, f. 2. 
1&. Uva-ursi Mariposa (Dudley) Abrams. 
Arctostaphylos Mariposa Dudley; Eastw. Fl. Kings Riv. 52. 1902. 
An erect compactly branched shrub, about 2 m. high, with a smooth dark reddish-brown 
bark and pale glandular-villous or glandular-pubescent branchlets; leaf-blades suborbicular to 
narrowly ovate, 25-40 mm. long, rounded to acute and more or less mucronate at the apex, 
cordate to obtuse at the base, entire or rarely serrulate, firm-coriaceous, very pale grayish- 
green, scabrous, otherwise glabrous or glandular-villous on the margins at the base; petioles 
slightly angled, 6-10 mm. long, glandular-villous or glandular-pubescent; bracts broadly 
triangular, about 3 mm. long, pale-brown, acuminate or acute; pedicels glandular-villous, 
very slender, 6-8 mm. long; calyx-lobes narrowly ovate, 2 mm. long, very thin, ciliate on the 
margins; corolla 7-8 mm. long; ovary glandular-pubescent; nutlets irregularly coalescent, 
commonly 3 solitary and 2 united, sharply angled and carinate on the back, apiculate at both 
ends. 
Tyex Locality: Millwood and Kings River Cafion, southern Sierra Nevada, California. 
DistRiBuTION: Common through the foothills and lower altitudes of the forest belt of the 
Sierra Nevada, California. 
19. Uva-ursi Pringlei (Parry) Abrams. 
Arctostaphylos Pringlei Parry, Bull. Calif. Acad. 2: 494. 1887. 
An erect shrub 2 m. high, with smooth dull reddish-brown bark and glandular-villous 
branchlets; leaf-blades narrowly ovate to narrowly elliptic, 25-40 mm. long, obtuse to acute 
and mucronate at the apex, firm-coriaceous, pale grayish-green, scabrous, more or less glandu- 
lar-villous at the base, the midvein prominent; petioles glandular-villous, 6-8 mm. long; 
flowers in ample loose panicles; branches of the inflorescence slender, glandular-villous; bracts 
membranous, pink, deciduous, 5-6 mm. long; pedicels very slender, 12-16 mm. long, glandular- 
villous; calyx-lobes thin, glandular-villous, oblong-lanceolate, 3 mm. long; corolla pale-pink, 
7-8 mm. long; fruit glandular, globose, light-brown; nutlets irregularly coalescent, sharply 
carinate and coarsely rugose in the intervals. 
Typu Locality: Rincon Mountains, altitude 2000 m., Arizona. 
DISTRIBUTION: Coniferous forest belt, Arizona, 
20. Uva-ursi drupacea (Parry) Abrams, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 
6: 434. 1910. 
Arctostaphylos Pringlei drupacea Parry, Bull. Calif. Acad. 2: 495. 1887. 
An erect compactly branched shrub, 1.5-2 m. high, with smooth dull reddish-brown 
bark and densely glandular-villous branchlets; leaf-blades broadly ovate to narrowly obovate, 
