CONTRIBUTIONS TO WESTERN BOTANY at 
nora and grown by Mr. Rock at San Jose. So far there is but 
E. aculeata Brandegee left, but not cultivated. Watson’s charac- 
terization of Erythea was a failure. I have sought good generie ones 
that will hold. The floral character that I suggested falls down. 
for the flowers are so small that the segments seem united but are 
not in fact so. No character has any wher aarp value except 
those of floral bracts and seeds, The bracts of both genera ure 
split down one sile from the tip, but pean only in Washing- 
tonia into a long, white and strap- shaped blade, but in Erythea 
they are very suvrt, ‘I'he secds of the former are ve ry small, rare- 
ly .dinch long by .25 wide, oval-oblong, and round in cross-section 
aud sulcate ventrally. Seeds (fruits) of Erythea are about spher- 
ical when fresh, but the seeds when stripped are oblique flattened 
on the Sephane end, and in E. Loretensis are lozenge-s*haped,but 
3-4 times as large and never oblong inoutline. The outer pulp 
of W aebiagione is black when ripe and should be sweet and _ed- 
ible like the date, and at maturity peels off the seeds — The 
outer covering of Brriben is puipy and reddish in all the species 
before maturity, but edulis and Loretcnsis are black when ripe, and 
appear lies ERAS but the seeds vary, in edulis they are not 
niuch different, the seeds are about globose and rough, but are 
lenticular and sang obcompressed and shiny-black in Loretensis, 
~~ the pulp is as thick and as edible, but the fruit isa half smal- 
ler. EE. elegans and aculeata are dwarfs in all ee apeoie 2 leaving 
armata and Brande egei as the only remaining trees. armata has 
glaucous leaves which make it seem blue, and has long and whip- 
lik peduncles and linear panicles long-exserted and twice as lon 
but coming out near the top and erect, not drooping as in armata 
E. elegans and aculeata have prickly petioles as in armata and the 
leaves persist for years and are not selfpruning as in a and the 
fruits about the same size and shape @3 in armata 
ERYTHEA KEY. 
(This is & replace the one offered in Cont, 15p 53) 
esnot exserted nor narrow, ova ate e, not interrnpte 
Sates green, Fruits black, with juicy and edible exterior 
pu ruits about spherica 
Fruits 2 cm. wide and with siete nearly rou 
Leaves unarmed, inclined to be deciduous : _ eduli, 
