PLANTS FROM BAJA CALIFORNIA. 153 



Mimosa, sp. — A small bush neither in flower nor fruit, 

 common on Santa Margarita Island. 

 Acacia Farnesiana Willd. — Pozo Grande. 

 Acacia Wrightii Benth. — Paraiso. 

 Acacia, sp. — San Benito. 

 Acacia, sp. — Comondu. 



Acacia, sp. A common bush; apparently undescribed. — 

 San Gregorio, Comondu. 



Acacia, sp. " Palo friorro." A thorny bush with small 

 bipinnate leaves and an abundance of curved, rough, black 

 legumes an inch broad and three inches long. — San 

 Gregorio. 



Lysiloma CANDIDA. A small tree, growing to a height of 

 twenty-five feet, usually with several trunks from a single 

 root: bark smooth, white, but dark on the small branches, 

 glabrous except the infloresence: leaves 3-7 cm. long: 

 pinnae one or rarely two pairs, with a small, prominent 

 gland between the lower: leaflets 4-7 pairs, narrowly or 

 broadly oblong, obtuse or retuse, 8-15 mm. long, the 

 pinnate veins continued to the margin: stipules leaf- 

 like, oblong, oblique, 6-15 mm. long: bracts small, 

 caducous: flowers capitate, the heads pedunculate in 

 short racemes or clusters, bracteoles similar to but shorter 

 than the calyx lobes: calyx 3 mm. long: corolla one-half 

 longer, its lobes as well as those of the calyx pubescent and 

 thickened at the tip: stamens 40-50, yellow, twice as long- 

 as, and united at base into a tube half the length of the 

 petals: anthers transversely, oblong, separating into about 

 four pollen masses: ovary nearly sessile, glabrous; style 

 cylindrical, equaling the stamens: pod on a short stipe, 

 8-15 cm. long, 25-30 mm. wide, smooth, reddish-brown, 

 thin and almost papyraceous, 8-15 seeded, thickened 

 on the edges by the stout nerves which separate more or 

 less completely, and often persist as red-brown threads 



