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10. A. insularis, Greene in herb. A. pungens, Greene, Bull. Cal. A.cad., 

 Vol. II, 406. 



Smooth throughout; branches light-brown, young shoots 

 rusty green; leaves short, petiolate, ovate, narrowed at base, 

 obtuse, muticous, conspicuously net-veined beneath; inflo- 

 rescence paniculate, branching, racemes slender, prolonged, 

 bracts short, deltoid, pedicels glandular, hairy (flower not 

 seen); fruit smooth, yellowish-brown, orbicular, 3 — 4 lines 

 wide, 2 lines high, nutlets irregularly coalescent, the ventral 

 edge acute at base. 



Island of Santa Cruz; E. L. Greene, July, 1886. 



A symmetrically branched shrub 4 — 7 feet high, with bright 

 green foliage, and, judging from the fully formed buds (in 

 July), flowering early in the winter. It can hardly be re- 

 garded as an insular variety of A. manzanita, the characters 

 above specified seeming constant, and when observed in 

 full flower, it will no doubt exhibit other well marked spe- 

 cific distinctions. 



11. A. Pringlei. 



Young branches, including the petioles and margins of 

 the leaves, copiously ciliate-pubescent, with mixed glandu- 

 lar hairs, leaves short, petiolate, glaucous, minutely net- 

 veined, with conspicuous mid-nerves, ovate to broadly sub- 

 cordate, abruptly short mucronate; inflorescence closely 

 paniculate from a thickened base, intermixed with bud- 

 scales, indicating a late flowering period, racemose branches 

 slender, thickly covered, as w^ell as the bracts, pedicels and 

 calyx, with ciliate and glandular hairs, bracts lanceolate 

 membranous, petaloid, deciduous, bracteoles linear nearly 

 one-half as long, pedicels slender, divaricate, 4 — 5 times as 

 long as the bracts, calyx ciliate-glandular, corolla smooth, 

 broadly urceolate; ovary and fruit glandular, hispid, nutlets 

 irregularly coalescent, 5 — 7-celled. 



Mountains of Lower California; C. R. Orcutt, July, 1884; 



