CONTRIBUTIONS TO WESTERN BOTANY 29 
Modern progress has destroyed the type of E elegans for the 
Buddington garden is no more, and its plants killed, all that is left 
of the type is the seeds grown by Mr. Wright and the Huntington 
SNe three plants, two dwarfs 35 years old and not eight feet 
a tiny plant inthe Garden. The Wright plants are ma- 
Faris and fruiting copiously. 
rythea Loretensis n. sp. 
Type 1 fohaltte. the corner of the block south . the schoolhouse in 
Loreto, L. Cal., a single, vigorous tree 25 high, with persis- 
tent and appressed leaves as in E. tls see and similar inflores- 
cence. Fruits black and edible, with pulp .25 inch thick and “ae 
urating readily from the single seed which is shiny-black and s 
flattened at the poles as to be lozenge-shape e fruits seem 
spherical, but are very oblate, measuring 13x16- isin, and the 
seeds 12x8 mm,.with a central pit 1 mm, deep and the outer pulp 
loose ers the seed and with a papery skin 
Fruits of edulis are depressed-globose, 20x15 mm. with pulp 
closely cahesue to the reddish seed. 
The stipularsheaths of edulis and Washingtonia are nearly a 
foot high and twice as long and half an inch thick and make fine 
packsaddle pads, preventing blistering in the intense sammer heat. 
There seems to be a good variety in a form of Brandegei dis- 
tributed by B. from the Cape which we may call var. spi- 
ralis in which the leaves are arranged in couspicuous spirals on 
the trunks. 
cari’s armata var,microcarpa seems a good one, with the 
linear te drooping panicles not so conspicuously exserte d 
with small and greenish flowers and small and oval reddish fruits 
14x10 mm: dimensions. 
Allium 
Ina recent trip to Cuyamaca lake Cal,, south of Julian, at an 
elevation of 4500 ft. I found two Allia growing in — open 
amplectens and Parryi. The former grows singly, or in twos in 
und 
their method of extra propagation seems infrequent by the split- 
ting of the bulb. The stamens a littleexserted. The flowers are 
globose and very thin and abont closed and always white, The 
heads are mostly an inch wide and rather dense. The leaves are 
