CONTRIBUTIONS TO WX3TERN BOTANY NO. lb .145 



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long and lanceolate and either^ wholly colored or Tialf colored, and then 

 green to the tip. Involucres about 3 mm. long, broadly ' cartipanulate, very 

 dark, and with rudimentary" glands.' Fruit exserfed twice as much as the 

 length of the ' involucre,'" depressed-globose, about 5 mm. long, deeply 

 3-lobed, with divisions rounded on the back and not keeled, smooth. Seeds 

 globose-oblong, 3 mm', long^ round and not angled, gray, with sliglUly 

 raised areas, shining. This grows scattered among tlie grassy slopes. No. 

 23310, Tepic, Nayarit, February 14/ 1926._ In case, this proves to be 

 different from E. strigosa it may bear the name E.. nigro-purpurea. 



Euphorbia floccosiuscula N, Sp. Plant annual and prostrate, with 

 capillary stems intricately branched, and with ratiier short intemodes. 

 Whole plant softly pubescent with excessively fine and cobwebby hairs 

 which are widely spreading and inter-mixed with gland-tipped, ones and 

 about 2 mm." long, much as in E.' villifera. Leaves elliptical, oblique 

 opposite, the largest about 5 mm. long by 2-3 mm. wide, entire,^ and 

 rounded, most 'of theni very small. Flowers axillary and single, mmutt;, 

 red on slender pedicels. Involucres narrowly cuneate m outhne anu 

 about 2 mm. long. Appendages small and lacerate Fruit sligatly 

 exserted, nearly as long as wide, emarsinatc, deeply lobed and with angles 

 rather sharp, about 2 mm. long, pilose. Seeds reddish, oblong-ovate. 



V^ mm. long, acute, sharply 



a very little 



rugose. " Plants a few inches long and very delicate No. 237.59, He; 



open 



Diospyros Californica Brandegee. Guaj-parin. Shrubs pot over .0 

 feet high in clumps. Trunks ^hite or gray, a foot wide, nea'-ly erect 

 branched above. Twigs stout. Leaves evergreen, oblong-obova te and 



acute 



T2^'s^(cr^c.r:'^^, at maturity a chocda.-bh.k an.I 

 quite soft. Tastes sweet and is good to eat. Seeds about 8 and alj t 

 Tl M„ .r.A T,,rHTv h^\{ as wide, yellowish. It grows on the edee. 



of sandy 



lopes 



On the 'plain, it grow, with Parkinson.a and ihe l,k ^^l^J'^^ 



of an oak and is a rigid shrub. 



found 



Lagu 



tI"™!. .,": r:mr:;cUsTL;;;nd a p«son .^U not na.ura„y oat 



much of it. 



Mrs. Meyer 



, ' '^Thad been pYanted a year and nine months; from the seed, and 

 jr-^rden ^^t had been plant^^^^ ^^^ ^^, ^^pi^^3^. 



trunk 



fruiting. 



bamboo. I 

 Todos Santos. I had previously 

 le east of Acaponeta, and ate the 



fruit there. . , , , 



species of bamboo 



wteriTWd a ufeaT Bii> gmw a1 San Jose del Cabo. Thete U . 

 clX there orLleata that isSs feet hirf, and co.-er^ a quarter of an 



acre. The poles are sometimes 6 mches thick. 



