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546. Jatropha angustidens (Torr.) — San Jose del 

 Cabo. 



547. Jatropha spathulata. — San Jose del Cabo. 



548. Croton Californicus Miill. Arg. — San Jose 

 del Cabo and probably the western shore to Alta Cali- 

 fornia. 



549. Croton, sp. — San Jose del Cabo. 



550. Manihot Carthagenensis Miill. — Common 

 about San Jose del Cabo. 



551. Bernardia Brandegei Millsp. — Common about 

 San Jose del Cabo. 



552. Bernardia myric^folia Watson. — Sierra de 

 la Laguna. 



553. Bernardia, sp. Fruit only. — Comondu to San 

 Jose del Cabo. 



554. Acalypha aeiena. Annual, erect, slender, 

 3-4 dm. high, minutely pubescent: leaves ovate-lance- 

 olate, serrate, truncate at base, minutely punctate, nearly 

 glabrous, 3-5 nerved, 2-6 dm. long; petioles slender, 

 nearly as long as the leaves; stipules minute, linear, 

 deciduous: spikes terminal and axillary. S on slender 

 peduncles, much shorter than the petioles ; sepals canicu- 

 late, and glandular on the back: ? sessile, axillary ones 

 short, terminal much longer; bracts punctate, loose, 

 broadly ovate, 6 mm. long, serrate, acuminate or 2-toothed 

 at apex, somewhat scarious at base; style filiform-dis- 

 sected; capsule hispid above; seeds smooth, reddish- 

 brown, the capsules of i, 2 or 3 upper bracts divided to 

 the base into three separate indehiscent nutlets, which 

 are pubescent and muricate ; the cotyledons of these ab- 

 normal cocci have the radicle inferior, the cocci being 

 anatropous instead of the ovules. — San Jose del Cabo. 



555. Acalypha Californica Benth. — San Jose del 

 Cabo. 



