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Ad Soledad. — Etiam in valle flum. Colorado (Bigelow 

 et Palmer), 



B. MONOSPERMA; foliis parvis, brevissime petiolatis ; 

 racemis masculis usque ad medium 15-20-floris; floribus 

 femineis breviter pedunculatis ; fructu adpresse sparseque 

 echinato, rostro quam fructu subbreviore. — Cyclanthcra 

 monosperma Brandegee in Proc. Cal. Acad., ser. 2, ii, 



159- 



In California inferiore ad Agua Dulce et Las Huevitas. 



ECHINOCYSTIS: Sect. IV, Pseudo-Echinopepon. 



Radix fibrosa. Flores 5-meri. Fructus siccus, mature 

 ut videtur bivalvis, multilocellatus, locello centrali i-sper- 

 mo rarissime 2-spermo, cteteris vacuis. Semen parvum, 

 complanatum, creberrime minuteque granulosum. 



E. Brandegei: foliis parvis, ambitu suborbicularibus, 

 utrinque brevissime denseque hirtellis, usque ultra medi- 

 um 5-lobatis; cirrhis bifidis vel superioribus simplicibus; 

 paniculis parvis, paulo ramosis, plurifloris; calyce puber- 

 ulo, pateriformi; fructu satis parvo, sph^rico, dense echi- 

 nato, abrupte longeque rostrato, rostro caduco. 



Caulis humifusus, circiter 7 m. longus, ramis gracili- 

 bus, leviter puberulis, profunde sulcatis. Petiolus gracilis, 

 striatus, dense puberulus, ij4-3 cm. longus. Folia rigi- 

 diuscula, pallide viridia, 2-4 cm. longa lataque, lobis an- 

 guste obovatis, basi satis constrictis, apice subrotundatis 

 apiculatisque, margine undulato-denticulatis ; sinus inter 

 lobos obtusissimi, basilaris rotundatus, j4-i cm. profun- 

 dus. Cirrhi graciles, elongati, striati, leviter puberuli. 

 Pedunculus communis masculus gracilis, sulcatus, brevis- 

 sime hirtellus, 1^-5 cm. longus; pedicelli capillares, 1-3 

 mm. longi. Calyx 2 mm. latus, minute denticulatus. Co- 

 rolla albescens, furfuraceo-puberula, segmentis patulis, 

 triangulari-oblongis, acutis, 2-2 j4 mm. longis. Columna 



