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14. CEANOTHUS vEsTITUS Greene, Pittonia 2: 101. 1890. 
Type locality: “Borders of pine forests on the mountains near 
Tehachapi, Kern Co., Calif.” 
Distribution: Southern Nevada, southward to the San Ber- 
nardino Mountains. In southern California this species is con- 
fined chiefly to the desert slopes of the mountains in the pinon 
belt. Upper Sonoran. 
Specimens examined: Mount Pinos, altitude 1800 meters, Abrams 
€¥ McGregor 260; Pine Creek near Mutau Flat, Abrams & Mc- 
Gregor 194; Oakgrove Canyon, Liebre Mountains, Abrams & 
McGregor 334; Rock Creek, Abrams &§ McGregor 567; eastern 
slope of Mount San Antonio, altitude 2400 meters Abrams 2717; 
eastern base of the San Jacinto Mountains Hall 2156; Cahuilla 
Valley, Hall 1164; San Felipe Canyon, Brandegee 114; between 
Campo and Jacumba Hot Spring, Abrams 3700. 
15. CEANoTHUS JEPsoNnI Greene, Man. Bay-Region 78. 
1894. 
Type locality: ‘Open hills in Marin Co., near San Geronomo, 
and northward.” 
Distribution: This species has only been known from the Coast 
Ranges north of San Francisco Bay, but the specimens cited below 
seem identical. ‘The species is closely related to C. pinetorum of 
the southern Sierra Nevada, but that has much more prominent 
stipules. Upper Sonoran. 
Specimens examined: Hills west of Pomona, Baker 4oor. 
16. CEANoTHUS cRassiFoLIus Torr. Pacif. R. Rep. 4: 75. 
1857. 
Type locality: “Mountains south of Los Angeles.” 
Distribution: A common shrub in the chaparral from Santa 
Barbara County, southward to northern Lower California. Upper 
Sonoran. 
Specimens examined: Newhall, Brandegee 85; Mount Lowe, Grant 
1147; San Fernando Mountains, near Chatsworth, Abrams 1364; 
Cajon Pass, Bigelow, March 16, 1853; Beaumont, Parish 4104, 
Lone Pine Canyon, San Gabriel Mountains, Abrams & McGregor 
672; Santiago Canyon, Helen D. Geis, April, 1902; near Foster’s, 
Abrams 3767; Nuevo, Brandegee 84. 
