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with angled green branches seems to be this species. 

 Seen only in the vicinity of Agua Caliente and Miraflores. 



539. Phyllanthus polygonoides Spreng. — Sierra 

 de la Laguna.* 



540. Phyllanthus. sp. — San Jose del Cabo. 



541. Phyllanthus, sp. — Sierra de la Laguna. 



542. EuPHORBLA. (Anisophyllum) incerta. Per- 

 ennial (?) glabrous, branching from the base, forming 

 tufts about 2 dm. high and as broad: leaves all opposite, 

 thick, coriaceous, entire, oblong, obtuse-mucronate, un- 

 equal at base, folding face inward. 6-10 mm. long, on 

 the upper part of the branches equahng or exceeding the 

 internodes; petioles about % the length of the leaves; 

 stipules persistent, oblong, nearly as long as the petioles, 

 unequally incised into 2-4 lobes, one of them occasionalh' 

 swollen below the tip: involucres angular, solitary in the 

 axils on pedicels about as long as the petioles; lobes tri- 

 angular-acuminate; glands four (the place of the fifth 

 being occupied by a lacinate process), stipitate. concave, 

 nearly orbicular, entirely without appendage; bracteola?, 

 lacerate : styles very short deeply bilobed : capsule de- 

 clined; seeds ecarunculate, round-ovate, smooth, white, 

 the angles obscure; cotyledons. ^2 the length and little 

 broader than the radicle. — La Paz on the spit opposite 

 the town, growing in clean sand which forms a coating 

 for the apparently glutinous stems their entire length, but 

 does not adhere to the leaves or flowers. 



543. Simmondsia Californica Nutt. — La Paz. 



544. Jatropha canescens Miill. — Common at low 

 elevations throughout the region. Variable in its pubes- 

 cence and often glabrous. 



545. Jatropha cordata Mull. — Common at the 

 higher elevations of the interior mountains. 



*Zo'e, i, 346. 



