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ciineate at base, glabrous or usually pubescent on the margin and 

 rather short slender petiole, 2 or 3 inches long ; stipules broadly tri- 

 angular: peduncles solitary in the axils, bracteolate, 6 to 9 lines louf : 

 calyx-lobes very narrow, G to 9 lines long; corolla white, funnel-form, 

 2|- inches long, the tube pubescent within, the limb nearly two inches 

 broad ; filaments 6, pilose only near the base, the anthers (8 lines 

 long) equalling the corolla: capsule oblong, angled, 9 lines long: 

 seeds ascending, very thin and broadly winged, 4 lines long. — Pecu- 

 liar in the thin leaves and very broadly winged seeds : flowers laro-e 

 and handsome, abundant, pendent, and very fragrant. The capsule 

 is tardily dehiscent septicidally, as in other species. In deep canons 

 near Guaymas. (298.) 



Randia Thurbeki. An upright shrub, 6 or 8 feet high, armed 

 with slender spines, the young branches canescent with fine spreading 

 pubescence : leaves obovate, attenuate to a short winged petiole, obtuse 

 or retuse, 6 to 15 lines long, finely pubescent or glabrate : calyx less 

 than a line long : fruit globose or ellipsoidal, axillary, sessile or nearly 

 so, 8 or 9 lines long, the pericarp thin-crustaceous : seeds numerous 

 (about 20) in black pulp. — "Papachi"; the fruit eaten by the 

 Indians. In ravines about Guaymas ; first collected by Thurber on 

 the hills between Rayon and Ures, Oct., 1851. (229.) 



Randia obcordata. An upright bush, 6 or 8 feet high, armed 

 with stout spines and very leafy : leaves obovate or mostly obcordate, 

 attenuate to a very short petiole, finely puberulent or glabrate, 9 lines 

 long or less, much exceeding the internodes : calyx deciduous : fruit 

 sessile in the axils, globose, 3 or 4 lines in diameter, black, 2-4- 

 seeded. — On high gravelly mesas near Guaymas. (648.) 



Genipa echinocarpa, Gray. A thorny shrub, 8 feet high ; 

 flowers " orange-yellow," fragrant. About Guaymas. (lOG.) 



Galium stellatum, Kell. Mountaiti-sides, Los Angeles Bay. 

 (525, pistillate; 526, staminate.) 



iJoFMEiSTERiA CRASSiFOLiA. Suffruticose (?) With brittle branches, 

 glabrous : leaves alternate, very fleshy, linear, once or twice jjinnatifid 

 with 1 to 3 pairs of linear divisions, 1 or 2 inches long : peduncles 

 long, naked, mostly solitary ; involucre broadly campanulate, of very 

 numerous linear acuminate bracts ; receptacle broad, strongly convex, 

 naked : flowers very numerous ; corolla white, very narrow, 1| lines 

 long : style-branches elongated, much exserted : pappus of 5 scabrous 

 sptfB nearly equalling the corolla and 3 or 4 intermediate on each 

 side, short, unequal, and rigid. — In crevices of rocks in the high 

 m-untains about Guaymas; flowers very fragi'ant. (309.) 



