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subulate, very short: corolla lobes divided to the base: 

 stamens connate in a head: female flowers similar to the 

 male, somewhat larger, solitary on short peduncles from 

 the same axil, style very short, stigma hemispherical: ovary 

 with a beak twice its length, 1-celled; ovule one, erect: 

 fruit flattened, oblique, clavate-oblong, 5-7 mm. long with 

 a beak of the same length, not fleshy, sparsely furnished 

 with erect spines: seed conformed to and filling the cap- 

 sule, which is somewhat 2-horned at the apex. — Agua 

 Dulce. 



CucuRBiTA PALMATA Watson. Neither flowers nor fruit. — 

 San Fernando. 



CucuRBiTA CORDATA Watson. — San Gregorio. 



CucuRBiTA, sp. Probably undescribed, but the material 

 is too meagre. — San Benito. 



Maximowicxzia Sonor^ Watson. Abundant, and with its 

 bright red fruit very showy. The leaves are variable in 

 size and dissection, the seeds seem to be often covered by 

 an aril, underneath which they are coarsely rugose. In one 

 specimen, which seems not to differ from the others, the 

 seeds are larger, pale and perfectly smooth. More abun- 

 dant collections may show the species to be too closely 

 related. — Magdalena and Santa Margarita Island. 



Also collected at Cape St. Lucas in August, 1876, by Mr. 

 W. J. Fisher, who noted that the fruit was bright scarlet. 



Mamillaria Goodridgii Scheer. " Llavina." Fruit scar- 

 let, small and pleasant to the taste. Flowers ochroleu- 

 cous. — Magdalena and Sauta Margarita Island, and north- 

 ward to San Quintin. 



Mamillaria, sp. C.iespitose, stems a foot or two high, or 

 hanging from the cliffs at Comondu six feet. Fruit insipid 

 to the taste. — San Gregorio, Purisima, to El Campo Ale- 

 man. 



