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Sida rajoides. Add to description, 
tae of the valve just below the middle where it is 4 
ni Pegg tala toward eachend. Fruit strongly beiked. poe 
beak’ . long, and at last splitting into 5 needle-like 
Seeds blackish about 2 mm, long, half ova), rather pointed at 
both ends and longitudinally and fiinely striate-pitted. Pods con 
spicuously exserted, At first one is inclined to take this for a 
Waltheria for it has that habit.Nos. 54170 from east of Loreto 
and 27166 from the Cape 
Hettasunis Palmeri Rose reminds one of Hibiscus and Triun- 
fettia, but the 5 linear-lanceolate anthers opening by pores at the 
tip prevent its being in either genus, e anthers are describe 
chor-like with haif a dozen sharp arms reflexed and radiate. The 
flowers are conspicuous and yellow, 
Helianthemum glomeratum Lag. is quite common at the La- 
guna, growing on the open plain, and is a tufted shrub about 2 ft, 
high, og et ee an (Enothera when in bloom. It seems too 
rear to 
Hy banthus peuhinalints n. sp. East-of Todos Santos at 
Borego ranch and at Cayuca ranch, Oct 231950. A tufted per- 
ennial 2 ft. high, inclined to be shrubby below, + acemosely 
branched throughout, and with weak and herbaceous stems, ash 
cn young parts with short and incurved hairsas if miuutely woolly. 
leaves roughened on the ribs, lanceolate-acuminate, coarsely 
toothed, variously cuneate below, ptt de above thin, ona pet- 
icle 1 em. long, 2-3 inches long. Flowers in short terminal ra- 
comes, and single in the axils of waned leaves, on pedicels & 
. long, spreading, dull-white. Calyx lobes elliptical and acute 
ia ‘inclined to be lanceolate, 2 mm. long and as long as the glo- 
love pa ashy, hyaline on the margins and green in the center 
#1 d I-nersed, Petals white, merely as long as ag a see the V- 
rheped bled -like apex. Pods rather cblate ecth, green ard 
pojutless, 3-valved with amooer. aie light- wake aa: trique- 
tious seeds 
Lechea depressa n. sp. No. 27117. The Laguna, La- 
guna mts., Sept. 221930, Plants growingsin rocky places urcer 
rocks in tufts about 4 inchcs high. Stem innumerable from 
aw thickened crown, fillform, thie: upper half becoming an open 
panicle of compound racemes, the flowers of which come out op- 
posite but below the corresponding and green bracts. Leaves im- 
Lricated, very many, bisulcate below, 5 mm, Jong. linear, acute, 
uppressed- strigose-hairy, as is the calyx. Flowers chestnut-col. 
cred, with the petuls not exserted, and the many stamens barel ys- 
ard with didymous anthers. Fruits globose, 2 mm- long, with 
the valves splitting away from the erect partition and leaving the 
vertical and obliquely-ovate recds single cin -each cell. This 
