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VITACEAE. Grape Famity. 
 VILIS. Grave 
1. Vitis Grrp1ana Munson, Proc. Soc. Prom. Agr. Sci. 59. 1887. 
Type locality: “San Diego Co.” and “Los Angeles Co. Cali- 
fornia.” 
Distribution: Along streams on the coastal and desert slopes 
of the southern California mountains, from Santa Barbara south- 
ward. Upper Sonoran. 
Specimens examined: Sawpit Canyon, San Gabriel Mountains, 
Alice Cooper, Oct. 4, 1908; near Monrovia, Dudley, Nov. 1907; 
Lytle Creek Canyon, Abrams 1955; West Fork of Deep Creek, 
San Bernardino Mountains, Abrams &¥ McGregor 723; vicinity 
of San Bernardino, Parish 5013; Jamul Valley, Susan G. Stokes, 
June 19, 1895; between Foster’s and Ramona, Abrams 3760. 
MALVACEAE. Mattow Famity. 
Stigmas linear. 1. Lavatera. 
Stigmas capitate. 
Seeds not comose; fruit with a central axis. 2. Malacothamnus. 
Seeds comose; fruit without a central axis. 3. Hibiscus. 
1. LAVATERA. TREE MALLOW. 
1. LAVATERA ASSURGENTIFLORA Kell. Proc. Calif. Acad. 1: 14. 
1854. 
Type locality: “Island of Anacapa, off the coast of Santa Bar- 
bara.” 
Distribution: A native of the islands off the coast of southern 
California; cultivated on the mainland where it sometimes appears 
as an escape. 
2. MALACOTHAMNUS. Bus MALLow. 
Calyx and herbage clothed with very short-rayed stellate pubescence. 
Leaves green above, sparsely stellate-pubescent. 
Inflorescence mostly simple; flower-clusters nearly sessile. 
1. M. fasciculatus. 
Inflorescence branched; flower-clusters lax. 
1a. M. fasciculatus splendidus. 
Leaves hoary on both surfaces, with a dense soft stellate-pubescence. 
2. M. Nuttallii. 
