420 TRELEASE— THE DESERT GROUP XOLIXE.E. [April 21, 



A^. Bcldingi dcscrticola. — The type locality is given as Tantillas 

 Mountains. 



Specimens examined: Lower California. Piiion district {Or- 

 cutt, 77 J, 1882, — determined by Mr. Watson). San Pedro Martir 

 {Brandcgce, 1893). Paraiso {?Brandcgee, 1890). 



N. Palmeri Brandegeei Trelease. 



Nolina sp. Brandegee, Proc. Cal. Acad. ii. 2 : 209. 1889. 



?A^. Palmcri Brandegee, Zoe. i : 306. 



Arborescent. Trunk about 5 m. high, at length few-branched 

 above. Leaves 7-8 cm. wide, rather glossy, denticulate-scabrous. 

 Inflorescence with divisions 15 cm. long and lower branchlets about 

 one-third as long. 



Lower California. 



Specimens examined: Lower California. San Julio {Brande- 

 gee, Apr. II, 1890, — the type). Northern Lower California {Orcuit, 

 July 3, 1885). 



Fruit moderate in size, somewhat inflated, the relatively small seed not 



protruding if early exposed. Panicle divisions with rather weak mostly 



elongated and ascending branchlets (pp. 420-432). I\Iicrocarf.e. 



Lower panicle di»-isions more or less equaling the friable triangular 



bracts. Acaulescent. Leaves elongated. 



N. microcarpa Watson, Proc. Amer. Acad. 14: 247. 1879. 



Beaucarnca microcarf-'a Baker, Journ. Linn. Soc, Bot. 18: 236. 

 1880. 



Leaves 6-12 mm. wide, raggedly denticulate-scabrous. Inflores- 

 cence with often broad divisions 15-30 to even 45 ^_ _ __ __^ 



cm. long, and lower branchlets — sometimes again 



branched at base — half as long or less. Fruit nearly V 



as long as the pedicels, depressed, 5 X 7-8 mm. Seed 



3 mm. in diameter, attached and exposed after dehiscence of fruit. — 



PI. I, 12. 



Southeastern Arizona and adjacent New Mexico and Mexico. 

 Overlapping the region of A', candafa and associated with Dasy- 

 lirion Whccleri. The type locality is Rock Canon, Arizona. 



Specimens examined: Arizona. Rocky Canon {Rothrock, 2j8, 

 1874). Chiricahua Mountains {Tourney, 1894 : Bliiiiier, 1^16, 1906). 



