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leaves, but from the same buds, and these of yellowish or whitish very 

 silky caducous scales, which appear as an involucre to the flowers. 

 Calyx 0. Corolla tubular, but slightly oblique, yellowish, nodding, 

 4-lobed. Stamens 8, inserted at base of the corolla-tube, exserted; fila- 

 ments filiform; anthers small, oblong. Ovary sessile, 1-celled; style 

 longer than the stamens. Corolla deciduous from the growing ovary, 

 this becoming a somewhat drupaceous small fruit. 



1. D. occideiitalis, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. viii. 631 (1873): D. palm- 

 Iris, Torr. Pac. R. Rep. 77 (1857), not Linn. Shrub 4—7 ft. high: bud- 

 scales densely white-villous : leaves oval with rounded base, 1 — 3 in. 

 long: fl. canary-yellow, subsessile, 3 — 4 lines long, rather deeply 4-lobed, 

 the lobes nearly truncate, somewhat connivent, rendering the upper and 

 broader part of the organ slightly urceolate. — On moist well shaded 

 , northward slopes of the Oakland and Berkeley Hills. Peb., March. 



Obdeb IjYui. SANTAI.ACE/E. 



Robert Brown, Prodromus Florae Novse-Hollandise, 350 (1810). 



Represented by two species of the genus 



1. COM.INDRA, Nnttnll, Glabrous pale and glaucous low perennials, 

 the erect stems from subterranean rootstocks. Leaves alternate, sub- 

 sessile, entire. Flowers greenish-white, in small terminal and axillary 

 umbels. Perianth urceolate or campanulate, with a 5-toothed persistent 

 limb. Ovary surmounted by a 5-lobed disk which is free from the peri- 

 anth. Stamens shoi't, their linear filaments attached by a tuft of basal 

 hairs to the base of the perianth-lobes. Style filiform; ovary coherent 

 with the perianth-tube, about 3-ovuled, becoming a drupe-like 1-seeded 

 fruit. 



1. C. umbellata, Nutt. Gen. i. 1.57 (1818); Linn. Sp. PI. i. 208 (1753), 

 under Thesium. Stem 6 — 15 in. high: leaves oblong, obtuse or acute, 

 % — 1}^ in. long, umbels few-flowered, corymbosely clustered at summit 

 of stem: fl. IJ^g — '-^ lines long, on slender pedicels, the oblong slightly 

 spreading lobes white, about equalling the green tube, which is conspic- 

 uously continued above the ovary: style slender: fr. not very fleshy, 

 globose, 2^3 lines thick, on slender pedicels 2 — 3 lines long. — Western 

 slope of the Sierra, from Fresno Co. northward. 



2. C. pallida, A. DC. Prodr. xiv. 636 (1857). Aspect of the preceding, 

 but with narrower and acute leaves: fr. ovoid, 3 — 4 lines long, sessile, or 

 the pedicels very short and stout. — Perhaps not within our limits; but 

 found east of the Sierra northward, and in Oregon. 



