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edl}' the plant of the Xantus Collection noted in Proc. 

 Am. Acad., v, 158, as Lciiaeiia iiiarrop/tv/Ia f with the 

 remark "that from the pod and look of the foliage it may 

 be an Albizzia." It was not in bloom at the time of m}' 

 trips to the Cape Region, but very young pods were 

 found with remnants of flowers about their base. By 

 these old blossoms, it is made certain that the calyx is 

 small, the corolla long tubular, the stamens numerous, 

 exserted and monadelphous beyond the lobes of the 

 corolla. Mr. Bentham writes, "In this genus, one to 

 three of the central flowers of a head differ from the 

 others in having elongated tubular corollas and the stam- 

 ineal tube long exserted." These elongated flowers may 

 be the fertile ones of the head and therefore the ones re- 

 maining about the base of the pod. The mature pod 

 is exactly that of A. Lebhek in Icones Carpologica, and 

 the descriptions of the species agree with my specimens. 

 Albizzia is not an American genus, but this species has 

 been introduced into the West Indies, from which place, 

 if this tree is really A. Lebhek, it perhaps came. Several 

 old large trees grow on the main street of San Jose del 

 Cabo and their position and arrangement is such that 

 they must have been planted. In the broad sandy mouths 

 of canons along the base of the mountains at San Jose 

 del Cabo, Miraflores, Agua Caliente and Todos Santos, 

 this small tree abounds and seems to be a native, but it 

 may have spread from introduced or cultivated trees. 



201. Prunus salicifolia HBK. Proc. Am. Acad., 

 xxii, 411. A tree blossoming in Januarv on the Sierra 

 de la Laguna. 



202. RuBus, sp. Glabrous, stems trailing, leaves 

 often 5-digitate. In bloom on the Sierra de la Laguna 

 and Sierra de San Francisquito. 



203. Fragaria Mexicana Schl. — Sierra de la La- 

 guna, in blossom. 



