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long, 6 mm. wide: fruit angular-globose, 4 to 6 mm. iu di- 

 ameter on a recurved pedicel of the same length; nutlet bright 

 yellow. — Common at San Gregorio, Purisima, Comondu. 

 The bark of Bui'sera is used for tanning hides, and the dif- 

 ferent species are generally known as " torote." 



ScflCEPFiA Californica. A bush 8-10 feet high, with 

 rigid divaricate brandies, the young ones and leaves mi- 

 nutely pubescent, older branches white -fissured: leaves 

 fasicled on short branches that are scaly from the scars of 

 detached leaves, oblanceolate or spathulate, tapering to the 

 base, leathery, glaucous, faintly 3-nerved beneath, usually 

 vertical by a twist at the base: perianth reddish -yellow, 

 6-8 mm. long, somewhat saccate at base and narrowed 

 above at the stamineal attachment, 4-5 angled with as many 

 recurved lobes one-third as long as the tube : stamens broad 

 as long, equal in number to the lobes of the perianth and 

 opposite to them, sessile on the throat, which is pubescent 

 just above the point of attachment: ovary somewhat sulcate, 

 conical at the tip, terminating in a style less than half the 

 length of the corolla tube: stigma obscurely 2-lobed, about 

 8-angled: ovules two, pendant from the summit of the 

 ovary, the upper portion of which is covered with a 

 thick, spongy, yellowish disk, perforated for the passage of 

 the pistil and flat on the upper surface, but conformed to 

 the conical ovary on the lower: fruit oval, 6 mm. long, the 

 bony covering of the seed under the somewhat fleshy calyx 

 marked with darker longitudinally -sulcate lines and retic- 

 ulations: embryo solitary, linear, about half the length of 

 the ovary, at the apex of copious albumen; radicle superior. 

 — San Gregorio and Comondu. 



YiTis, sp. Only flowering specimens could be found so 

 early in the season, and they seem to belong to V. Califor- 

 nica rather than to V. Arizonica. — Not uncommon in damp 

 canons of the south about Comondu and Purisima. 



Rhus integeifolia Benth. & Hook. — El Rosario. 



