50 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY 



Petalontx LINEARIS, Greene. On S. Pedro Martin Island and 

 at Los Angeles Bay. (411.) 



Sympetaleia uupestris, Gray. {Loasella rupestris, Baill.) "With 

 the habit of Eacnide : leaves round-cordate, sinuately toothed and 

 rather obscurely o-7-lobed, 3 inches broad or less : corolla cylindrical, 

 4 to 6 lines long, yellow below, dark green above, the erect lobes 

 broadly oblong, the tube appendaged within near the base by a dense 

 ring of hairs ; calyx-lobes narrowly oblong, shorter than the tube of 

 the corolla: stamens very numerous, covering the upper half of the 

 tube, the uppermost filaments stout, green and erect, the lower shorter 

 and slender: capsule subglobose, truncate, 3 lines long, opening by 5 

 valves at the summit : seeds minute, linear-oblons;. — Doubtless the 

 species from Guaymas described by Baillon. The corolla-lobes are 

 imbricate and the anthers 1-celIed as in *S'. aurea, which differs espe- 

 cially in its yellow corolla with narrow tube and the lobes of the 

 spreading limb rounded. In the shade of rocks near the shore on 

 islands in Guaymas harbor, " and at Los Angeles Bay." (325.) 



EuCNiDE CORDATA, Kell. Described as 5 feet high, reclining 

 upon rocks, with white flowers. Mountains about Guaymas and Los 

 Angeles Bay. (341.) 



Mentzelia multiflora, Nutt. Los Angeles Bay. (591.) 



Mentzelia adherens, Benth, Summit of S. Pedro Martin 

 Island and at Los Angeles Bay. " Commonly called pega-pega ; it 

 sticks to everything." (402.) 



Passiflora. f(Etida, Linn. Fruit edible. Guaymas. C91.) 



Cucurbita CORDATA. Root long and large : pubescent through- 

 out with a dense rigid strigose pubescence, mostly reflexed except on 

 the leaves : leaves broadly cordate in outline, 2 to 4 inches wide, 3-5- 

 lobed nearly to the middle with narrow sinuses, the lobes coarsely and 

 obtusely toothed ; tendrils short, glandular-tipped : flowers solitary, on 

 peduncles H- inches long, the corolla 2 inches long: ovary pubescent, 

 subglobose : fruit globose, 3 inches in diameter, smooth, green with 

 about 10 whitish longitudinal lines: seeds white, 4 or 5 lines long. — 

 The fruit resembles that of C. pahnata. Sandy plains near Los 

 Angeles Bay. (584.) 



Apodanthera (?) Palmeri. Stems prostrate, from large long 

 white roots, glabrous or slightly scabrous on the angles : leaves thin, 

 rather thinly strigose-scabrous on both sides, round-cordate in outline, 

 \^ to 2^ inches broad, 5-lobed to the middle or deeper, with open 

 sinuses, the lobes acutely toothed ; tendrils mostly bifid: male flowers 

 racemose on long slender pedicels ; calyx-lobes linear, 3 lines long, 



