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short, glandless, blade covered, except a narrow thin bor- 

 der with sessile ruby-red glands: stamens 10, curved at 

 summit and inserted outside the margin of a 5-lobed disk, 

 one usually imperfect or abortive, anthers oval, obtuse: 

 stigma contracted at apex; ovary nearly glabrous, densely 

 glandular; ovules 3: pod falcate, one and a half inches long, 

 half inch broad, glabrous and glandular, 1-2 seeded: seeds 

 8 mm. long, somewhat flattened and oblique, with thin 

 margins. Near C. Falmeri, from which it differs principally 

 in its much larger leaflets and in the construction of the 

 flower, which in the latter has pedicels jointed above the 

 middle: calyx tube very oblique, disk apparentl}^ continu- 

 ous with the stamens, petals with longer claws margined by 

 stipitate glands, all glands yellowish, anthers strongly apic- 

 ulate and stigma dilated at the summit. — San Jorge, Co- 

 rn ondu. 



HoFFMANNSEGGLi INTRICATA. Suflrutescent, in clumps IJ 

 feet high, intricately branched, the branches becoming 

 rigid, glabrous : leaves with a single pair of pinnae and a 

 terminal one, each bearing 8-10 leaflets less than a line in 

 length: calyx hardly pubescent: racemes lateral, 6-8 flow- 

 ered: pod glandular. — El Campo Aleman and northward 

 nearly to Calamujuet. This appears to be H. micro'phijlla 

 Torr. var. (//((&ra Watson, Palmer's No. 543 from Los Angeles 

 Bay, but H. microphylla is upright in growth, 2-3 feet high, 

 with wand-like stems bearing 20 or more flowers, very pu- 

 bescent and glandular, and the terminal pinna two or three 

 times longer than the lateral ones. 



HoFFMANSEGGiA STRICTA Benth. — Santa Margarita Island , 

 San Gregorio, San Fernando. 



HoFFMANSEGGiA MICROPHYLLA Torr. — Calamujuet. 



Parkinsonia aculeata L. — San Gregorio to Calamujuet 

 and San Fernando. 



Parkinsonl\ microphylla Torr. — Calamujuet. 



