(412) 
in the chaparral of the San Bernardino Mountains, and in the 
San Diego region. Upper Sonoran. 
Specimens examined: Edgar Canyon, Parish 4103; Mill Creek 
Canyon, Parish 2023, 2088; Encinitas, Brandegee, March 28, 
1894; San Diego, Brandegee 33; Nuevo, Brandegee 36; San Die- 
guito, Abrams 3732; Cottonwood grade, Abrams 3379. 
8. CEANOTHUS OLIGANTHUs Nutt. in Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. Am. 
1: 266. (5838, 
Ceanothus hirsutus Nutt. in Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. Am. 1: 266. 
1838. 
Type locality: ‘‘Bushy woods on the hills of St. Barbara.” 
Distribution: In the chaparral of the mountains of Santa Bar- 
bara County, southward to the San Gabriel Mountains, where it 
extends at least as far eastward as Monrovia. This species is 
therefore confined chiefly to the coastal mountains. Upper 
Sonoran. 
Specimens examined: Santa Barbara, Nuttall; Brewer 280; 
Franceschi, April 2, 1894; Brandegee 30; Santa Ynez Mountains, 
Elmer 3776; Abrams, March 6, 1909; Pasadena, Brandegee 31; 
Mount Wilson trail, Abrams 1504; Millard’s Canyon, Abrams 292; 
Sawpit Canyon, San Gabriel Mountains, Dudley, Dec., 1907. 
g. CeanotHuus Orcutri Parry, Proc. Davenp. Acad. 5: 193. 
1889. 
Ceanothus hirsutus Orcuttit Trelease, in A. Gray, Syn. Fl. 1, pt. 1: 
414. 1897. 
Type locality: “High Mountains east of San Diego, C. R. Or- 
Cutt.” 
Distribution: Cuiamaca Mountains of San Diego County. 
Borders of the Transition and Upper Sonoran. 
Specimens examined: Nuevo, Brandegee 32; between Julian 
and Cuiamaca, Abrams 3965. 
10. Ceanothus austro-montanus sp. nov. 
Low, erect shrub, 3 meters high or less; branchlets reddish or 
grayish-brown, short-pubescent and glandular; petioles 3 mm. 
long or less; leaves oblong to narrowly ovate, 8-12 mm. long, 4-6 
mm. wide, conspicuously glandular-toothed, minutely appressed- 
pubescent above, pale beneath and pubescent on the veins; pe- 
duncles 3-5 cm. long; racemes a half to a third as long; fruiting 
