152 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



361. Philibertia Palmeri Gray. Agrees with 

 Palmer's flowering specimens, excepting that the top of 

 the stigma is slight!}^ more umbonate. The specimens 

 vary from very pubescent to glabrous. The follicles 

 when young are pubescent, and finally become 4-5 cm. 

 long, i-i^ cm. thick, and taper from near the end to a 

 point. The '' interior 5 scales '" in the living plant are 

 white, globular and prominent. Common climbing over 

 the hedges at San Jose del Cabo and Todos Santos. 



362. Asclepias subulata Decaisne. — San Jose del 

 Cabo, La Paz. 



363. Metasteema Californicum Benth. — San Jose 

 del Cabo. 



364. Pattaeias, sp. — San Jose del Cabo, Todos 

 Santos. 



365. GoNOLOBUS, sp.? In fruit only. — Near La Paz. 



366. Himantostemma Pringlei Gray. Common 

 near the seashore and in sandy gulches about San Jose 

 del Cabo. A specimen from Buena Vista has very much 

 larger and thinner leaves, and few trichomes in the throat. 

 Dr. Gray says these trichomes are '* apparently flat,"" 

 but in our specimens they are clavate. 



367. Rothrockia cordifolia Gra}-. The tube of 

 the corolla, which is plicate at the sinuses, is J/3 as long 

 as the limb. The stigma is bilobed at the summit and 

 irregularly muricate, usually in two divisions, a short dis- 

 tance below. The anthers are broad and inappendicu- 

 late, and the lobes of the thick corona are two-pointed. 

 The rather slender follicles are either smooth or tuber- 

 culate, narrowed a short distance above the base, and 

 when young are eaten raw by the inhabitants. — San Jose 

 del Cabo, Miraflores. Known as "Talayote." 



Dr. Gray compares Rothrockia to Enslenia or Roul 



