190 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



soideis, iuferioribus foliosis. (Tab XLV.) — Douglas MSS in Herb. Hort. 

 Soc. — Frutex 3-8-pedalis, ramis teretibus glabris, ramulis junioribiis 

 solummodo appresso-pubescentibus. Folia, in hoc genere, ampla, petiol- 

 ata, 3-4 nucias louga, 2^ ad 3 uucias lata, alterua, coriacea, lato-rotnndato- 

 elliptica, basi obtusa, raro siibcordata, ajiice obtusa, margine pulcheriime 

 et argute glanduloso-denticulata, tripliuervia, supra glaberrima, uitida, 

 quasi veruice obducta, siabtiis moUissima, incana, tactti pra-cipue velutiua, 

 nervis prominentibns. Petiolus fere uuciam lougus, tenui-pubesceus. 

 Pa?i?cii?fc termiuales elongatne, ramis glabriusculis, thyrsiformibus, iuferi- 

 oribus, ad basin, folium gerentibus. Pedicelli graciles, fasciculati. Flores 

 albi, glaberrimi. Calyx j)rofunde 5-fidus; tubo perbreyi, disco margine iu- 

 crassato rejsleto, medio pistillifero; limbi segmentis erecto-incurvis. ovatis, 

 subacumiuatis. Petala patentia, obovatafere cucullata, longe unguiculata. 

 Stamina ante petala. Filamenta petalorum longitudine. Aiitheroi subglob- 

 OSDB. (rerme?! subrotundum. -S'^i/^us elongatus, staminibus brevior. Stigma 

 bi-trifida, segmentis subrecurvis. Bacca sicca, 2-3-locuIaris, 2-3-si3erma. 

 Cocciili chartacei. Semina obovata, nitidissima, atro-fusca. — Hab. Subal- 

 pine hills near the sources of the Columbia and at the " Kettle Falls." 

 Douglas. Tab. XLV, Fig. 1, Flower; fig. 2, Vertical section of do.; fig. 

 3, Berry; fig. 4, ^eedi:— magnified.— 'Rook. Flor. Bor.-Am. 1, 125 (1830). 



This species, very well marked by the resinous upper 

 surface of the leaves, is of rather northern distribution. 

 In California it hardly reaches below the middle of the 

 State, unless it may be on the high mountains. Along 

 the Coast it appears not to reach the southern border of 

 Mendocino County. In the inner Coast Range it is not 

 found south of Mt. St. Helena, Napa County. It is wide- 

 spread in the Rock}' Mountain region and in the ranges 

 between the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Nevada. 

 Like C . cordulatus it retains its leaves through the heavy 



the coast of North-West America, between the parallels of 40° and 

 43 N. lat. ? Douglas. — My character of this is drawn up from Mr. Men- 

 zies's specimen in my Herbarii;m. In Mr. Douglas's MSS. he notices a (J . 

 grandis from the station above mentioned, which is probablj' the same as 

 the present, although it inhabits a much more southern latitude. Our 

 plant, however, it must be confessed, differs in no respect from the pre- 

 ceding species, except in being everywhere, even upon the young leaves, 

 entirely glabrous; whereas C. velutinus has, on the oldest as well as the 

 youngest leaves a delicate, short, hoary, and almost white tomentum, 

 clothing their under side. — Hook. Fl. Bor-Am., i, 125 (1830). 



