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broad : fertile flowers sessile, the perianth of three distinct sepals ex- 

 ceeding the compressed ovary, the lateral ovate and somewhat concave, 

 the other carinate ; abortive pistillate flowers very similar, but upon 

 a short stout pedicel and the lateral sepals narrower ; staminate 

 flowers also short-pedicellate, the perianth of three large oblong- 

 obovate sepals ; anther sessile, broad, obtuse. — Fruit edible. On 

 San Pedro Martin Island; rare. (413.) 



Ficus (Urostigma) fasciculata. A tree with a large trunk 

 (8 feet high) bearing a widely spreading top, the lower limbs horizon- 

 tal, sending down and supported by aerial roots ; foliage and rather 

 slender branchlets wholly glabrous : leaves somewhat crowded at the 

 ends of the branchlets, thin, oblong-lanceolate, short-acuminate or 

 acute, 3-nerved at the rounded or acutish base, puncticulate above, 

 finely reticulated beneath, 1^-2^ inches long, on petioles \ inch long : 

 fruit solitary in the axils, on slender peduncles 2 lines long, sub- 

 tended by a 4-lobed involucre, depressed-globose with a sunken orifice, 

 5 lines in diameter (immature) ; flowers all on short stout pedicels, 

 somewhat oblique, the perianth short, gamophyllous, unequally and 

 irregularly 2-3-lobed, the lobes short and obtuse ; style of some of the 

 pistillate flowers filiform and entire, of others bifid ; anther sessile, 

 ovate, acute, the cells rather long-apiculate. — Cultivated at Guaymas, 

 but said to be native to the region. (646.) 



Ficus (Urostigma) Sonor^e. A tree 15 to 40 feet high, with- 

 out aerial roots, glabrous throughout : leaves as in the last, but more 

 scattered on the branchlets and more cuneate at base, the larger 

 nearly 4 inches long: fruit solitary, on slender peduncles 4 or 5 lines 

 long, subtended by an irregular disk-like involucre, globose, 5 lines in 

 diameter : fertile flowers sessile, the perianth cleft to the middle with 

 broad acutish lobes, shorter than the globose nutlet, which develops 

 much mucilage when wetted; abortive pistillate flowers with a stipi- 

 tate oblong-obovate empty ovary (not mucilaginous) surrounded by a 

 tubular-funnelform 3-cleft perianth ; st iminate perianth similar, but 

 shorter and somewhat broader, the anther ovate, acute. — Fruit 

 black, edible, and known as "Nacapuli." Cultivated at Guaymas 

 (92), and also found wild in the ravines of the mountains (645). 

 In its foliage it closely resembles F. turbinate/. 



Brodi.ea Palmeri. Stem H to 2 feet high, bearing numerous 

 bulblets at and below the surface; leaves linear, a little shorter than 

 the scape, 8 lines broad or less : pedicels numerous, J to 1 inch long or 

 more : corolla purple, 6 to 8 lines long, funnel-form from a narrow 

 base, cleft to the middle, the throat coronate with a row of very short 



