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bring to mind the species of Dicellostyles as well as of certain 

 Thespesia. I retain G. drynarioides in its present position in 

 deference to Hillebrand, who has studied it with fresh material 

 before him and with Seemann's opinion doubtless duly considered 

 viz. that he hesitated about the genus into which it should be 

 placed. 



8 G. HARKNESSII, Brandg., PL of Baja Calif., in Calif. Acad. 

 Science, 2nd Series, vol. n. 136-7. 



Leaves small, ivy-like, thick, quite glabrous, faintly 3-lobed ; Descrip- 

 bracteoles broadly ovate-acuminate, entire. 



Twigs round, woody, with firm red bark, wrinkled on drying, glabrous^ 

 but when young, shoots, as also the petioles, prominently gland-dotted. 

 Leaves thick, leathery, quite glabrous, prominently reticulated, 1^ inches, 

 ovate-rotund cordate, angled or faintly 3-lobed, ears at the base almost 

 closing the sinus ; petiole an inch or more long and equalling the length 

 of the blade. Bracteoles free, broadly ovate-acuminate, entire, less than half 

 the length of the corolla, apparently caducous as the fruit ripens. Flowers 

 sulphur-yellow in colour, twice the length of the bracteoles ; petals with 

 purple spots at the base ; calyx truncate, persistent, but ruptured by the 

 fruit, glabrous, many-veined, prominently gland-dotted. Fruit ovate-rotund, 

 only slightly pointed ; cells 3, with 4 seeds in each ; seeds semi-adherent 

 together, woolly coating exceedingly short and not separable into two layers 

 or coats (see Plate No. 4). 



Habitat. This somewhat remarkable wild plant is found on California. 

 Santa Margarita Island of California (T. S. Brandegee), and has 

 apparently also been collected by Dr. Edward Palmer, n. 838, in 

 Carmen Island, Mexico. In the former locality it was found as a 

 rounded, dense shrub, growing in masses. It attains a height of 

 2-3 feet. 



Nomenclature. It has its nearest affinity to G. Stocksii, but is 

 also suggestive of G. obtusifoliitm and of some of the forms of African 

 and Indian cultivated cottons, usually spoken of as Asiatic races, 

 but so far as is known the present plant has never been cultivated 

 nor employed in crossing to produce special staple-yielding stocks, 

 and is an undoubted wild species that in some respects resembles 

 Cienfuegosia Gerrardii, Hochr. 



9. G. STOCKSII, M. Mast., Fl Br. Ind. i. (1874) 346; Cooke, 

 FL Bomb. Pres. i. 115 ; Talbot, Trees, Shrubs, <&c. Bomb. Pres. 

 2nd ed. (1902), 38; G. HERBACEUM, Tod. (in part), Relaz. Cult. 



