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Sph^ralcea Hainesii. Herbaceous, about 8 feet high, 

 with loug slender branches, densely covered with a soft 

 spreading stellate pubescence, becoming more glabrous in 

 age: leaves cordate lanceolate, somewhat lobed, irregularly 

 doubly crenate or dentate, 4 inches long or less, on petioles 

 J as long: axillary racemes solitary or geminate, 3 inches 

 long or less: bracteolse filiform, persistent: calyx white- 

 lanate, deeply cleft, segments acute, longer than the fruit: 

 petals brick -red, h inch long: fruit higher than its width: 

 carj)els 10-15, attached at base by slender threads to the 

 column, the small cusps turned outward and easily separat- 

 ing, basal portion short, reticulate: ovules 3, and usually 

 maturing into 3 minutely pubescent seeds. Named for the 

 collector, Charles D. Haines, who, as entomologist of 

 the party, materially reduced the number of insects infest- 

 ing it. — Collected at Jesus Maria. 



KosTELETZKYA DIGITATA Gray. The specimens are old 

 and have lost the lower leaves, but seem near enough to the 

 description. — Comondu. 



Hibiscus denudatus Benth. — Magdalena Island and north- 

 ward. Common. 



Hibiscus Coulteri Gray. — Purisima and other southern 

 localities, but not common. 



GossiPiUM HERBACEUM L. — Growing about the gardens of 

 the old missions, Comondu and Purisima. 



GossYPiuM Dayidsonii Kellogg. — Magdalena Island, San 

 Gregorio. This is without doubt the species noticed in 

 Bot. Sulph., p. 8. The carpels are 3-5, often 4; seeds 

 naked; leaves usually entire. 



GossYPiUM Harknessii. Shrubby, forming rounded clumps 

 2-3 feet high, with angled branches, glabrous throughout: 

 leaves broadly cordate, often with closed sinus, entire or 

 three lobed near the apex; petioles an inch or more long, 

 equaling the blade: peduncles exceeding the petioles, 



