OSMARONIA. 311 
commonly 2 to 4 feet high: leaves small, oblong and obovate- 
oblong, or on vigorous sterile shoots obovate, 2 inches long or 
more, obtuse or acutish, mucronate, deep green above, glaucous 
beneath, glabrous throughout, firm in texture when mature, 
prominently and irregularly veiny, the narrow and callous mar- 
gin revolute and somewhat crisped : racemes very short and few 
flowered, the flowers crowded ; outer bud-scales as well as some- 
times the inner and the bracts and calyx-segments more or Jess 
definitely ciliolate: drupes shorter and more rounded than in 
other species, blue with a dense bloom and the sarcocarp of 
cousiderable thickness. 
Common along the borders of low thickets near streams 
among the hills encircling San Francisco Bay; the type speci- 
mens in my own herbarium collected mostly by myself at San 
Francisco and Berkeley. C. F. Baker’s n. 317 from near Stan- 
ford University represents a state of it too large and luxuriant 
to be quite typical, yet with the essential characters, though 
there are only flowering specimens. Kellogg & Harford’s n. 
196, collected at Alameda in 1868, shows best the ciliation of 
bracts and calyx-teeth. 
O. LAURINA. Apparently dwarf like the last, the racemes as 
short, dense and few-flowered ; calyx-segments whitish and pet- 
aloid: young foliage oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, glabrous: mature 
leaves elliptical, 3 inches long, very firm, quite subcoriaceous, of 
a light yellowish green on both faces, smooth and without 
prominent venation: drupes glaucous, the pulp very thin. 
Known only from the Santa Lucia Mountains, Calif., as col- 
lected by R. A. Plaskett in 1898. Very distinct by the marked 
peculiarities of its mature foliage. 
O. PADIFORMIS. Low shrub, with foliage of the same hue 
and the thin texture of that of O. cerastformis, also similarly 
pubescent beneath, but smaller, the largest leaves 2} or 3 inches 
long, their outline almost elliptical, acute but hardly mucronate: 
