138 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



No. 633, also from Chihuahua, has persistent calyx-lobes, 

 longer stamens, and the more numerous seeds are thin- 

 ner and less rough. 



225. EucNiDE coRDATA Kell. — La Paz, San Jose del 

 Cabo. 



226. TuRNERA PuMiLEA L. — Common about San 

 Jose del Cabo. 



227. TuRNERA DIFFUSA Willd. Var. APHRODISIACA 



Urban, "Damiana." Formerly exported in quantity for 

 medicinal purposes. Common at low elevations. 



228. Passiflora fcetida L. — San Jose del Cabo. 



229. Momordica Charantia L. — Climbing over 

 dwellings and garden fences and sparingly escaped. — San 

 Jose del Cabo. 



230. EcHiNOCYSTis Brandegei Cogn. Proc. Cal. 

 Acad., ser. 2, iii, 59. — Along the seashore. Todos San- 

 tos, San Jose del Cabo, La Paz. 



231. EcHiNOCYSTis MINIMA (Kell.) — San Jose del 

 Cabo. 



232. Brandegea monosperma Cogn. Cal. Acad., 

 ser. 2, iii, 59. Barely entering the Cape Region near 

 Todos Santos. The leaves are as variable as those of 

 Echinocystis iniuiina, running from nearly entire to very 

 deeply lobed. 



233. Cyclanthera (Eucyclanthera) testudinea. 

 Annual, glabrous; stems angular, sparingly branched, 

 i/^-i m. high, climbing in bushes: petioles sulcate, 6-10 

 mm. long ; leaves punctate-scabrous, triangularly 3-lobed ; 

 the middle lobe prolonged, the lateral ones sometimes 

 quadrate or lobed, all acute or acuminate; base reniform 

 with a sessile gland on the upper surface at each side ; 

 nerves prominent beneath: 3 -flowers in small clusters. 



