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Aphyllon Coopem Gray. — Purisima, El Ranclio Yiejo. 



Tecoma stans Juss. — Comondu. 



Chilopsis saligna Don. — Calamujuet. 



Martynia altheefolia Bentli. — Magdalena Island. 



Martynia ? A single specimen, perhaps a de- 

 pauperate form of M. fragrans Lindl. — Purisima. 



Elytraria tridentata Valil. — Purisima, Comondu. 



RuELLiA, sp Same as Palmer's No. 196 from Guaymas. 

 — Comondu, San Gregorio. 



RuELLiA, sp. — Comondu. 



Beloperone Californica Bentli. — Magdalena Bay. Lobes 

 of the lower lip very short; lower side of the throat rugose- 

 veiny; tube near the base furnished with two prominent 

 hispid appendages formed by the confluence of two con- 

 verging veins, and taking the place of the posterior stamens: 

 retinacula broad, obtuse, often denticulate: seeds smooth, 

 nearly globular; cotyledons nearly hemispherical, the inner 

 surface veined, radicle strongl}^ incurved. — Magdalena and 

 Santa Margarita Islands. 



The flowers in these specimens are all pedicellate, but 

 otherwise difl'er very sliglitly from Bentham's description, 

 and Ensign McCormick, of U. S. S. Albatross, collected 

 tliis year specimens at Cape St. Lucas, the original locality, 

 which agree exactly with it, and they, as well as the Magda- 

 lena forms, have globular, smooth seeds. Our specimens 

 from Southern California are .too young, but if Dr. Gray 

 (Syn. Fl. ii, pt. i, 329) is not in error in describing the 

 seeds as " turgid," " coarsely rugose," they must belong to 

 a ditferent species. The upper anther seems not in any of 

 the forms to be ever truly maticous, but only less calcarate 

 than the lower. 



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