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oblong-ovate strongly nerved and tomentose beneath. Peculiar 
to the islands off the coast of southern California. 
5. Quercus Dunnu Kell. Pacif. Rural Press. June 7, 1879. 
Quercus Palmeri Engelm. in Bot. Calif. 2: 97. 1880. 
Quercus chrysolepis Palmeri Engelm. Trans. St. Louis Acad. 3: 
3534 1977- 
Type locality: Not ascertained. 
Distribution: Mountains of southern San Diego County south- 
ward into Lower California. This oak has been reported from 
Vandeventer’s ranch, San Jacinto Mountains, otherwise it is 
known within the state only in the region where it was first dis- 
covered, which is a small grove about five miles west of Jacumba 
Hot Spring (Larken’s Station). It probably belongs to the 
pifion belt of the Upper Sonoran. 
Specimens examined: Walker’s ranch, near Jacumba Hot Spring, 
Abrams 3608. 
6. QuERcus LoBATA Nee, Anal. Nat. 3: 277. 1801. 
Quercus Hindsii Benth. Bot. Sulph. 55. 1844. 
Quercus lobata Hindsii Wenzig, Jahrb. Bot. Gart. Berlin 3: 188. 
1885. 
Quercus longiglanda Torr. & Frem. in Frem. Geog. Mem. Upper 
Calif. 17. 1848. 
Type locality: “Of this species I have only seen branches 
brought from Monterey by Sres. Robredo and Esquerra.” ‘The 
citation given here is copied from a translation of Nee’s paper in 
Annals of Botany (2: 111. 1806). 
Distribution: Valleys and low hills from the upper Sacramento 
southward to San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles County. In 
southern California the roble or valley oak does not occur south 
of the Santa Monica, Mountains except for a single tree near Santa 
Monica, and another young one near Lamanda Park. North of the 
Santa Monica Mountains it occurs in the San Fernando, Simi, 
Santa Clara, and Ojai Valleys. On the desert slopes of the moun- 
tains it enters our territory through Tejon Pass and extends along 
the western border of Antelope Valley to the vicinity of Elizabeth 
Lake, Liebre Mountains. Upper Sonoran. 
Specimens examined: Canyon near Castac Lake, Dudley 4460; 
Soldier’s Camp, near Fort Tejon, Abrams &9 McGregor 273; Oak- 
