STANDLEY — TREES AND SHEUBS OF MEXICO. 1085 



Qarrya fremontii Tow., of Oregon and California, is known as " feverbush," 

 " skunkbush," or " quinine-bush." The bitter leaves contain an alkaloid, garry- 

 ine, and are used in California as a tonic and antiperiodic. 



Inflorescences simple; flowers usually 3 in each bract 1. G. veatchii. 



Inflorescences all or mostly branched ; flowers solitary in the bracts. 



Plants glabrous throughout 2. G-. g'laberrima. 



Plants variously pubescent. 



Leaves all or mostly less than twice as long as broad, elliptic or ovate- 

 elliptic. 



Leaves glabrous beneath or sparsely sericeous 3. G. wrightii. 



Leaves, at least when young, covered beneath with loose curled 



hairs 4. G. ovata. 



Leaves mostly two and one-half to four times as long as broad, oblong, 

 elliptic-oblong, or lanceolate. 

 Bracts of the fruiting racemes linear or linear-lanceolate ; leaves acute 

 or acuminate. 

 Leaves glabrous beneath or with sparse appressed hairs. 



5. G. salicifolia. 



Leaves with short curved hairs beneath 6. G. long-ifolia. 



Bracts, at least the lower ones, large and resembling the leaves; leaves 

 mostly rounded or obtuse at apex 7. G. laurifolia. 



t. Garrya veatcMi Kellogg, Proc. Calif. Acad. 5: 40. 1873. 



Qarrya ftavescens palmeri S. Wats.; Brew. & Wats. Bot. Calif. 1: 276. 1880. 



Oarrya veatchii palmeri Eastw. Bot. Gaz. 36: 458. 1903. 



Baja California ; type from Cedros Island. Southern California. 



Shrub, 1.5 to 2.5 meters high, the young shoots sericeous ; leaves ovate- 

 lanceolate or elliptic-ovate, 2.5 to 7.5 cm. long, acute or acuminate, glabrate 

 and lustrous above, tomentulose beneath; fruiting racemes 2.5 to 5 cm. long; 

 fruit 6 to 8 mm. in diameter. 



2. Garrya glaberrima Wang, in Engl. Pflanzenreich IV. 56a: 12. 1910. 

 Type from Encarnacifin, Jalisco. 



Glabrous shrub ; leaves elliptic or ovate-elliptic, 5 to 6 cm. long, mucronulate, 

 lustrous above; pistillate racemes few-flowered, 4.5 cm. long or less; fruit 7 

 to 8 ram. in diameter. 



3. Garrya wrightii Torr. U. S. Rep. Expl. Miss. Pacif. 4: 136. 1856. 

 Chihuahua and Sonora. Western Texas to southern Arizona ; type from 



Santa Rita, New Mexico. 



Shrub, 1 to 3 meters high, the branchlets sericeous ; leaves elliptic-oblong 

 to broadly elliptic, 3.5 to 5 cm. long, mucronulate, in age glabrous or nearly 

 so ; pistillate racemes 3 to 7 cm. long, the lower bracts foliaceous ; fruit dark 

 blue, 4 to 7 mm. in diameter. 



4. Garrya ovata Benth. PI. Hartw. 14. 1839. 



Oarrya goldmanii Woot. & Standi. Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 16: 157. 1913. 



Chihuahua to San Luis Potosi and Puebla ; type from Guanajuato. Western 

 Texas and southern New Mexico. 



Shrub, 0.5 to 3 meters high, the branchlets tomentulose ; leaves 2.5 to 5 cm. 

 long, obtuse or subacute, when young usually densely tomentulose on both 

 surfaces, in age glabrate and lustrous above; fruit dark blue, 4 to 8 mm. In 

 diameter. 



Wangerin gives as a vernacular name " jaraskigo," which must be a corrup- 

 tion of some Mexican word. 



