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ea. 6 mm. longis, anguste turbinatis, sparsim villosis, lobis 5 parvis; 

 glandulis 4, bnmneis, exappendulatis ; pedunculis validis, 0.2-0.5 mm. 

 longis; capsula glabra, 12-15 mm. longa, acute angulata; seminibus 

 prismaticis, levibus vel paullo rugosis, ca. 1 mm. longis. 



Type. — Washes at Gold Mountain, Nevada, 1898, Purpus 6437. 

 Sheet no. 110920 in Herb. Univ. Calif. 



Besides the type, I have seen collections of this species from ATil- 

 mont, Arizona (TJwrnher 341), from near Holtville, California 

 (Parish 8087), and from Imperial County, California (Wales 8). 

 The plants of the Californian collections are villous throughout, but 

 those of the other collections are glabrate. The outstanding characters 

 of E. podagrica are its annual prostrate habit, knobby stem nodes, 

 entire leaves, and small involucres with reduced unappenclaged glands. 

 It seems to come nearest to E. glyptosperma, but that species has 

 oblong serrate leaves, unthickened stem nodes, and seeds differently 

 roughened. 



Securinega capensis sp. nov. 



Fruticulus laxe ramosus, dioicus, ca. 1 m. altus ; caulibus rigidis, 

 cinereis praesertim ad ramos juvenes; ramis vetustis breviter calcar- 

 atis, foliis oblanceolatis, plerumque fasciculatis, 7-15 mm. longis, 

 3-4 mm. latis. glabris, subtus manifeste costatis, obscure venosisque ; 

 petiolis ca. 1 mm. longis; floribus masculis 2-3-glomeratis ; pedunculis 

 strigosis, ca. 1 mm. longis; pedicellis glabris, 2.5-5.0 mm. longis; 

 sepalis 4-5, ovatis; staminibus 5, ca. 2 mm. longis, circa discum 

 lobatum positis ; floribus femineis paucis, pedicellis brevibus validis ; 

 f ructibus juvenibus strigoso-canescentibus ; stigmatibus 3, reeurvis, 

 1 mm. longis, apice dilatatis complanatisque : ovario trilocnlari, loculis 

 interdum biovulatis; fructu brunneo, tenuiter pubescenti, manifeste 

 lobato, diametro ca. 9 mm., globoso-oblongo, pedicellis 3-6 mm. longis. 



Type. — West side of cape region, Baja California, October 22, 1893, 

 Brandegee. Sheet no. 110393 in Herb. Univ. Calif. 



Securinega capensis is a near relative of *S^. fasciculata comb. nov. 

 (Bernardia fasciculata AVats., Proc. Am. Acad., 18:153. 1883) and 

 has been referred to that species by Brandegee (Zoe, 4 :405. 1894) . It 

 differs, however, in the size of its leaves and in the shape and size of 

 its fruit. The new species is known only from the cape region of 

 Baja California,whence I have seen Brandegee 536 from San Jose del 

 Cabo, and Brandegee 's collection of October, 1893, from tlie "west 

 side of the cape region." The congener S. fasciculata has long 

 remained under Bernardia where AVatson first placed it with a query. 

 But there is no doubt that this past treatment is unsatisfactory, for 



