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Rothrockia cordifolia, Gray. In shady ravines, etc., about 

 Guaymas. (213.) 



Himantostemma Pringlei, Gray. In an orange grove at Guay- 

 mas. (318.) 



Marsdenia edulis. Stem frutescent, with corky bark when old, 

 climbing: leaves rather thick, uudulate, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 rounded at base, glabrous, 1 to 4 inches long, petiolate : flowers in a 

 nearly sessile simple or compound umbel, the calyx and short pedicels 

 pubescent: calyx-lobes ovate, acutish ; corolla cream-color, rather 

 fleshy, 2£ lines long, cleft to the middle, the throat very villous: lobes 

 of the crown subulate-acuminate, a little shorter than the tall conical 

 bifid summit of the stigma : fruit ovate, obtuse, smooth, 3 inches 

 long; seeds suborbicular, 3 lines long. — "Talajote"; the green 

 fruit is eaten. On sandy saline mesas near salt water, Guaymas. 

 (150, 658). 



Gilia (Eugilta) Palmeri. Annual, erect and branched, some- 

 what pubescent with floccose tomentum especially in the axils, a foot 

 high : leaves alternate, very narrowly linear, entire, pungent, 1 \ 

 inches long or less: pedicels scattered, about an inch long: corolla 

 " violet," 5-parted, the spreading lobes oblanceolate, acute and den- 

 ticulate, 5 lines long, the calyx half as long: filaments very slender 

 and anthers small : capsule oblong, equalling the calyx ; cells several- 

 seeded. — Near G. rigidula. On stony ridges near Los Angeles Bay. 

 (593.) 



Ellisia chrtsanthemifolia, Benth. Shady mountain-sides near 

 Los Angeles Bay. (580.) 



Phacelta crenulata, Torr. A small-flowered form. Stony 

 ridges at Los Angeles Bay. (592.) 



Piiacelia (Eutoca) pauciflora. Annual, setosely hispid, lax 

 and very slender, a foot high or more : leaves (except the uppermi 

 pinnately divided, the oblong segments pinnatifid: dowers few, shortly 

 pedicellate in a short loose simple or geminate raceme: calyx-lobes 

 setosely hispid, linear-oblanceolate, 2 becoming 4 lines long, equalling 

 the corolla (scarcely 3 lines long) ; appendages narrow and united at 

 base over the filament: stamens and style included, the style cleft to 

 the middle: capsule ellipsoidal, obtuse, 2 lines long, 8-seeded. — Tech- 

 nically of the Eutoca section, hut closely related to P. hispida. On 

 mountains near Los Angeles Bay. ( 583. ) 



Cordia Grf.ggii, Torr., var. (?) Palmeri. Leaves somewhat 

 larger (5 to 9 lines Ion?), ovate-oblorig, acute to obtuse, more abruptly 

 cuneate at base on a slender petiole 2 to 1 lines long, and with m 



