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Petals present. 



Inflorescence a sessile umbel, or the flowers solitary ; fruit short-beaked. 



Pedicels glabrous ; leaves pale beneath 4. C. parryi. 



Pedicels pubescent; leaves green beneath 5. C. lloydii. 



Inflorescence a short-pedunculate umbel ; fruit not beaked. 



Leaves green beneath, somewhat 3-nerved at base 6. C. obtusifolia. 



Leaves pale beneath, pinnate-nerved 7. C. lycioides. 



1. Condalia obovata Hook. Icon. PI. pi. 287. 1840. 

 Nuevo Le6n and Tamaulipas. Western Texas. 



Shrub or small tree, sometimes 10 meters high, with a trunk 20 cm. in 

 diameter ; bark thin, brown, ridged ; leaves broadly spatulate, 1 to 2.5 cm. long, 

 rounded at apex, petiolate, entire, glabrate; flowers green, solitary or fascicu- 

 late, nearly sessile; fruit dark blue or nearly black, 6 mm. long, with sweet 

 flesh ; wood hard and dense, red, its specific gravity about 1.20. " Brasil " 

 (Tamaulipas, Texas) ; " capulin " (Nuevo Leon) ; " capul negro " (Texas). 



The wood yields a blue dye. The fruit, like that of other species, is edible 

 and is said to make good jelly. 



The writer has seen no material of C. ohovata angustifolia Loesener,* de- 

 scribed from Sinaloa, where it is said to be known as " mezquitillo." It prob- 

 ably should be referred to some other species. 



2. Condalia spathulata A. Gray, PI. Wright. 1 : 32. 1852. 



Baja California to Sonora, Sinaloa, Zacatecas, Tamaulipas, and Coahuila. 

 Western Texas to southern California; type collected in Texas on the Rio 

 Grande. 



Densely branched shrub, 1 to 2 meters high, with slender spinose branchlets ; 

 leaves narrowly spatulate, 5 to 10 mm. long, obtuse, petiolate, glabrous or pubes- 

 cent ; flowers pedicellate, solitary or fasciculate ; fruit short-beaked, 4 to 5 mm. 

 long, black or purplish, bitter. " Chamis " (Zacatecas); " abrojo," " tecom- 

 blate" (Durango). 



3. Condalia mexicana Schlecht. Linnaea 15: 471. 1841. 



Chihuahua and Coahuila to San Luis Potosi, Queretaro, Hidalgo, and Puebla ; 

 type from Zimap^n, Hidalgo. Southern Arizona. 



Shrub, 1 to 2 meters high, with stout spinose branches; leaves obovate or 

 oblanceolate. 5 to 12 mm. long, rounded at apex, short-petiolate, entire, pubescent 

 or glabrate; flowers nearly sessile in the axils; fruit 4 to 6 mm. long, short- 

 beaked. "Bind6" (San Luis Potosi, i?aH/tre5'). 



4. Condalia parryi (Torr.) Weberb. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. 3°: 404. 



1895. 



Zizyphus parryi Torr. U. S. & Mex. Bound. Bot. 46. 1859. 



Baja California. Southern California ; type from San Felipe. 



Densely branched shrub, 0.5 to 4.5 meters high, densely armed with stout 

 spines, glabrous throughout ; leaves obovate or elliptic, 8 to 15 mm. long, short- 

 petiolate, rounded at apex, entire; pedicels 4 to 6 mm. long; fruit ovoid, 1 to 

 1.5 cm. long, yellowish red. 



The Coahuilla Indians of southern California pounded the fruit into a coarse 

 meal which was mixed with water to make atole. 



5. Condalia lloydii Standi., sp. nov. 



Type from foothills, Cedros, Zacatecas {Lloyd 71; U. S. Nat. Herb. no. 

 574037). 



' Repert. Sp. Nov. Fedde 8: 297. 1910. 



