4o6 Flora of the Cape Region. [zoE 



781. Croton MagdaleN/E Millspaugh. — San Jose del Cabo 

 and in the mountains. Some forms are much less pubescent or 

 hirsute than the type from Magdalena Island. 



549. Croton fragilis HBK. Var. — This is very near the 

 variety sericeiis of Dr. Palmer's Chihuahua collection. The 

 specimens from diflferent parts of the Cape Region vary from one 

 another very much in their pubescence, those from Sierra San 

 lyazaro being much larger and more glabrous than those from the 

 vicinity of San Jose del Cabo. 



551. Bernadia Mexicana Miill. Arg. var. B. viridis Millsp. 

 This is also the B. Brandegei Proc. Cal. Acad. ser. 2, vol. iii, 172, 

 which is an inadvertence, no species having been described under 

 that name. It is a rather common bush of the Cape Region at 

 middle elevations. 



536. Adelia virgata. a dioecious shrub 2-3 m. high 

 with whitish stems and long almost simple branches studded 

 with stout more or less woolly spurs on which are borne the 

 crowded leaves and flowers: leaves oblanceolate to oblong or 

 obcordate, 1)^-3 cm. long, sparingly appressed pubescent, soon 

 glabrate, cuneate at base to a short petiole: flowers 4-6 at the 

 summit of the spurs; pedicels 5-10 mm. long, jointed about the 

 middle: calyx valvate, 5-parted, the segments acute, 2-3 mm. 

 long densely villous without and within: stamens about 15 

 concreted at base with the rudimentary ovary. Ovary of ? 

 flower sessile on the disk, 2-3- ordinarily 2-celled, hirsute; st5des 

 united at base, fimbriate-lacerate, stigmatiferous over the whole 

 inner surface: fruit glabrate commonly 2-coccous, about 2 cm. 

 high by 3 cm. in breadth, marked by a cruciform sulcus; seeds 

 orbicular the size of a pea with coriaceous brown, somewhat 

 mottled testa; endosperm thick; cotyledons reniform. — Widely 

 spread over the southern part of the peninsula; now first collected 

 in flower. 



782. Salix taxifolia HBK. — Growing along streams of 

 the western side, but not abundant. Determined by M. S. Bebb. 



783. Arethusa rosea Benth. — Common on the high 

 jnountains. 



