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3. EpHEDRA CALIFoRNICA S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 14: 300. 
1879. 
Type locality: “Promontory near San Diego, and Jamul 
Valley.” 
Distribution: The Mohave Desert, southward to Lower Cali- 
fornia, extending westward to the coast in the vicinity of San 
Diego and southward. Lower Sonoran. 
Specimens examined: Between Victor and Stoddard Wells, 
Coville &F Funsten 159; Whitewater, S. B. & W. F. Parish 653; 
eastern slope of San Gorgonio Pass, Leiberg 3234; Coyote Canyon, 
Santa Rosa Mountains, Hall 2863; Jacumba Hot Spring, Mearns 
3332; Campo, Abrams 3600; North Coronado, Knapp, 1895; 
Tia Juana, Abrams 3480. 
PHOENICACEAE. Pato Famity. 
1. NEOWASHINGTONIA. Catirornia FAN-PALM. 
1. NEOWASHINGTONIA FILAMENTOSA Sudworth, U. S. Dept. Agr. 
Div. Forest. Bull. no 14: 105. 1897. 
Pritchardia filamentosa Wendl. Bot. Zeit. 34: 807. 1876. 
Pritchardia filifera Linden, Ill. Hort. 24. 1877. 
Washingtonia filifera Wendl. Bot. Zeit. 87: 68. 1879. 
Washingtonia filamentosa Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 2: 737. 1891. 
Type locality: Described from young plants cultivated in 
Europe. The source of the seeds is not definitely known. 
Distribution: The California fan-palm occurs in a few scat- 
tered groves along the base of the desert ranges a few miles north 
of Indio, and again at Palm Springs on the eastern base of Mount 
San Jacinto. An interesting account, and an exhaustive bibliog- 
raphy of the genus, was given by Parish in the Botanical Ga- 
zette, Dec. 1907. 
Specimens examined: Palm Springs, Dudley, Dec. 1902. 
LILIACEAE. Lity Famtity. 
Flowers polygamo-dioecious; perianth-segments 1-nerved; filaments filiform; 
fruit thin and membranous, bursting irregularly. 1. Nolina. 
Flowers perfect; perianth-segments many-nerved; filaments clavate; fruit a 
thick-walled capsule, or baccate, septicidal or loculicidal. 
Style filiform; stigma capitate, long-papillate. 2. Hesperoyucca. 
Style stout or wanting, 6-notched, openly perforate. 
