80 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



parted, linear, hispid bracts: calyx-lobes long-acuniinate : 

 petals an inch long, ernarginate : filaments of outer stamens 

 united into broad, membranaceous lobes, which commonly 

 enclose the inner anthers: carpels glabrous, transversely 

 rugose, the back with a central, longitudinal channel. — PI. 

 Fendl. 19. Bot. Cal. I. 84. Var. minor, Gray, differs re- 

 markably from the type in having racemose inflorescence, 

 and the petals marked by a dark purple spot at the base. 



It was collected in Lake County by Mrs. Curran, in 1884. 

 The original of the species is common in the central parts 

 of the State, on hillsides everywhere. 



S. malachroides, Gray. 



Stout, hirsute, 3 — 6 feet high : leaves cordate, 2 — 5 inches 

 broad, 3 — 7 -angled with the lobes sharply toothed : bractlets 

 subulate, caducous: flowers small, white, nearly sessile in 

 close racemose or spicate clusters: calyx -lobes triangular, 

 acute: petals narrowly obcordate: carpels glabrous, not re- 

 ticulate, the back showing a more or less distinct central 

 ridge.— Proc. Am. Acad. VII. 332. Bot. Cal. I. 84. 



Rather rare, along the Coast from Mendocino County to 

 Santa Cruz. 



CEANOTHTJS. 

 C. macrocarpus, N T utt. 



Shrub 8 — 12 feet high, with naked, dark-barked trunk, 

 and well rounded, tree-like head: branchlets rusty-pubes- 

 cent, and bearing conspicuous, dark, warty, stipular glands: 

 leaves alternate, coriaceous, obovate-oblong, refuse, entire, 

 minutely tomentose-canescent beneath: flowers in umbellate 

 clusters: fruit very large. — Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. Am. I. 

 267. 



The flowering branchlets alone furnish characters enough 

 by which to distinguish this specifically, from C. cuneatus. 

 I refer to the strictly alternate leaf-arrangement, and the 

 large, warty stipules. The shrub inhabits the highest parts 



