FLORA OF THE CAPE REGION. I45 



sinuate or somewhat lobed on the margin: peduncles 

 several times exceeding the leaves, in fruit often i dm. 

 long: heads small; lobes of the involucres about five, 

 rounded and ciliate, united to the middle, penninerved : 

 rays bright yellow, 6-10 mm. long, much exceeding the 

 involucre: fruiting bracts without hoods, clavate-oblong, 

 rough and pubescent, with the lateral edges spinose- 

 tubercular at the point of attachment, the inner basal 

 angle sharply projecting, the akene exposed somewhat bv 

 the falling ray: disk strongly convex, the flowers shorter 

 than the plicate-truncate, crenate-dentate yellow-tipped 

 bracts, only the few central ones antheriferous, the verv 

 numerous others reduced to linear-clavate rudiments, 

 nearly as long as the bracts and ciliate at the summit. — 

 San Jose del Cabo. 



303. Parthenice mollis Gray. — La Paz to Todos 

 Santos. 



304. Hymenoclea monogyra T. & G. — San Jose 

 del Cabo to La Paz. 



305. Franseria flexuosa Gray. — San Pedro. Small 

 tree fifteen feet high. 



306. Franseria Magdalen.^ Brandegee. — San Jose 

 del Cabo. 



307. Franseria ambrosioides DC. — San Jose del 

 Cabo. 



308. Xanthium strumarium L. — San Jose del Cabo. 



309. Heliopsis parviflora Gray. Akenes either 

 smooth or papillose. — High mountains. 



309^, EcLiPTA ALBA Hasskarl. — San Jose del Cabo. 



310. Sclerocarpus divaricatus (Benth,)? This 

 must be the plant mentioned, under S. tuiiscriaUs, by Dr. 

 Gray in the list of Xantus' plants. It agrees better 



