Z ERYTHEA. 



densely stellate tomentose beneath, serrate or dentate, sometimes 

 indistinctly 3-lobed : flowers on short axillary peduncles; sepals 6-7 

 mm. long, linear, mucrouate; petals oblanceolate, shorter than the 

 calyx; stamens 20: fruit 3-seeded, 3-celled, tomentose, 5 mm. long, 

 armed with 12-20 hooked spines 6-7 mm. long. 



A handsome shrub growing upon Socorro Island. Anthony's 

 No. 378. 



Dalea Purpusi. An intricately branched shrub 3-4 dm. high ; 

 stems glabrous, slightly glandular dotted ; leaflets 3-5 narrowly or 

 broadly obovate, obtuse or retuse, cuneate at base, 4-6 mm. long, 3 

 mm. wide, black glandular dotted below, silky pubescent: spikes 

 broadly ovate, 15 mm. long, about 12-flowered; bracts soon decid- 

 uous ovate-lanceolate, 5-6 mm. long, equaling the flower buds, 

 sparingly glandular, silky pubescent and densely long ciliate on the 

 margins, especially near the base; calyx silky-hairy, dotted with 

 yellow glands between the prominent ribs, teeth linear, 8 mm. long, 

 twice the length of the tube, plumose ; petals pink or rose color, 

 keel and wings 5 mm. long, with claws of nearly the same length, 

 standard round-cordate, 3 mm. wide ; pod silky pubescent and 

 plumose along the dorsal margin and lower part of the style, glan- 

 dular dotted, 1-seeded ; stamens 10. 



Plants with fruit and old flowers were collected by the writer in 

 1889, at San Estaban, Baja California, and by Dr. C. A. Purpus, 

 in March, 1898, near Calmalli, not quite in bloom. In Proc. Cal. 

 Acad., ser. 2, vol. ii, 147, it was referred to D. formosa Torr., which 

 species in general appearance it much resembles. 



Dalea Anthonyi. Frutescent, erect-spreading, growing in dense 

 clumps one meter in height and diameter, glabrous excepting a few 

 silky hairs about the calyx teeth and midrib of the leaf; leaflets 

 6-10 pairs, 3-4 mm. long, oblong, obtuse, glandular below and 

 on the margins; stipules setaceous; peduncles much longer than 

 the leaves : heads rather densely flowered, 5-6 cm. long ; bracts 

 longer than the calyx ; calyx 3-4 mm. long, glandular between the 

 prominent ribs, teeth triangular, acute, the lower much longer, 

 equaling the body of the calyx : corolla violet, standard one-third 

 longer than the calyx, wings twice as long, keel three times as long ; 

 pods, 1-seeded, smooth, longer than the calyx. 



Common about Sau Jose del Cabo, the finest plants growing in 



