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longi. Calycis tubus patulus, ut lobi utrinque ipa molliter 
Fehotbalaten lobi lanceolati, acuti, tubo bis vel ter longiores. 
Columna staminea brevis, glabra ; capitulum antherarum 2 mith. 
longum, tubum paullo excedens. Flores foeminet 2°5 cm. longi. 
Calyx corollaque mari similes. Ovarium ovoideum, in rostrum 
equilongum glabrum angustatum, dense setosum ; stigma alee 
sessile ; loculi 4, 2-ovulati. #ructus ovoideus, 7 cm. longus, 4 
latus, aculeis complanatis 5-8 mm. longis sparsis armatus. pens 
4-8* ovata, compressa, magnitudine varia, ad 3°65 x 3 x: 1 cm 
lineo fusco lato in circumferentia majore notata. 
S. Catirornta Isuanps. San Catalina, San Clementi, San 
Nicolas. Trask 91, 280, 281, 
The plant is common. in moist cafions in some of the islands. 
Trask records that its white flowers are produced in May and June 
and that its roots, which are often left partly exposed, are as large 
as small barrels. 
8. M. macrocarpus, Dunn. Echinocystis_macrocarpa, Greene in 
‘Bull Calif. Acad. i. 188 (1885) ; Hall in Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 1. 
22. Micrampelis macrocarpa, Greene i in Pittonia, ii. 129. 
Souruern axp Lower Canrrornia. Santa Barbara, eee 
Diego, San Bernardino, Riverside, Los Angeles Counties and 
Quentin’s Bay. Abrams 3130, Bingham, Braunton 748, 7 og Breber 
A150, Colville § Funston, Brandegee. 3429, Dunn, Eastwood 93, 
- Henshaw 84? 219 ?, Jones, Lieberg 3116, Orcutt, she aaa. arish 
4140, 3633, Shorting, Thurber 578, Vasey 214, Vesey 35 
Pregnant’ in the hills and Chaparral (scrub) belt wes it flowers 
from February to May. It is characterised by its blunt ng si 
leaf-segments and the deep rounded sinuses between Fro 
- fabaceus to which it was at first referred it differs in in its iarpe? 
male flowers and in its seeds 14 or even as many as 29 in number, 
not 4 as is usual in M. Sabaceus, and 2 cm. long not 4 cm, as in that 
species. 
9. M. fabaceus, Dunn. Echinocystis fabacea, Naud, in Ann. Bei 
Nat. sér. 4, “xii. 154 (1859); Cage, “Le. 816; Congd. Le. 
Megarrhiza ie oh Torr. in Pacif. Rly. Rep. vi. 74 +1887) 
nomen ; Wats. in Proc. Am. Acad. xi. 138 (1876). 
N. Cenrrat Catirornsa. Coastal regions. Santa Clara, San 
Francisco, Monterey, Santa Barbara, Sonoma and Placer Counties. 
Ames, Bedi 1299 Bridges 118, ies a 300, Davy 6806, 
Kel 53 Bali, Barclay 119, Hansen 106, Jones, 
€ Ha audin, Plashett 96, Samuels 80, Vasey 213. 
ecies was described by Naudin from cultivated plants in 
the FL ardin des Plantes in Paris. His type specimens in the Kew 
Herbarium agree exactly with those since contributed from natural 
bitats in central California. 
0. M. gilensis, Dunn. Megarrhiza gilensis, Greene in Bull. Torr. 
club, viii. (1881) 97. _ Echinocy cystis gilensis, Greene i in Bull. Calif. 
* fide Brandegee in Zoe, 137. 
