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lat'ier dense granular pulp; putamen 

 s nooth externally, solid, 5-celled, i or 

 m >re abortive. Orsj Py Dav ac pr 4 

 34; Xylococcus bicolor Nutt, Py Ca ac b 

 2 496 Arc clevelandi G? 

 ARCTOSTAPHYLOS PARRYANA Lmn. 



"A much branched shrub, 3-5° high: 

 foliage coriaceous, bright green; blade 

 ovate or oblong 3^-1'' long, acute or ob- 

 tuse, entire, conspicuously impressed 

 veiny; petioles slender, yi-%^ long: in- 

 florescence paniculate corymbose, the 

 pedicels & bracteoles wtomentose: 

 bracts foliaceous, narrow; bracteoles 2 

 or 3 lines long, deltoid, with callouslips: 

 segments of the rotate calyx obtuse: fr 

 ovate or globose, 34 -K^ long, y'ish; ex- 

 ocarp smooth & glabrous, rather thin; 

 endocarp of from 5-7 firmly united bony 

 carpels, apiculate at each end, & marked 

 with longitudinal ridges corresponding 

 with the back of the carpels: seeds 2 lin. 

 long, incurved, w. Tehachapi mts." — 

 Lemmon pitt 2 68 



§Comarostaphylis G: — fr warty, puta- 

 men solid, 5-celled. 



ARCTOSTAPHYLUS ARGUTA Zucc. 

 Variety DIVERSIFOLIA Parry. 



"Shrub 6-15 ft h'gh; stems 1-3 inches 

 in diameter, with light gray bark slight- 

 ly furrowed, on the upper branches 

 shreddy, & on the young, growing shoots 

 tomentose; leaves varving greatly in* 

 size & form, according to position or sea- 

 son of growth; in young, vigorous off- 

 shoots or suckers, broably lanceolate, 

 2,%' long byi>2' broad, smooth, on both 

 sides, reticulate, scarcely at all revolute; 

 on the upper & fi'ing branches, narrowly 

 lanceolate, strongly revolute, & tomen- 

 tose beneath, in all more or less irregu- 

 larly serrate, with mucronate cartilagin- 

 ous teeth & short petioles. Inflorescence 

 racemose, from the axils of the upper 

 terminal leaves, secund & horizontal, ra- 

 chis, bracts, pedicels, and calyx long to" 

 mentose; bracts about 34 as long as the 

 pedicels, corolla 3 lines long, stamens 10 

 (occasionally 8), filaments bearded be- 



low, anther appendages about as longa^ 

 the anthers; style shortly exserted; ova- 

 ry hairy hispid above. Fr small, 2 lines 

 broad, warty, with a solid 5-celled puta- 

 men cells more or less abortive. Needs 

 comparison with the Mexican type, 

 which probably includes several pub- 

 lished species." — Parry Dav ac pr 4 35. 

 Or s j A polifolia B-W n.n HKK. 

 A colored portrait of this in Datos pa- 

 ra la materia medica Mexicana, (pt 3 11) 

 well represents our shrub. It enjoys in 

 m the names madronyo borracho, and 

 garambullo — the latter name in j is ap- 

 plied to Cereus sargentianus— and is in 

 medicinal repute. 



^Micrococcus Py Dav ac pr 4 36: — Fr. 

 with thin pericarp, without mealy pulp, 

 wrinkled at maturity; 4 or 5 nutlets easi- 

 ly separating— in 2 divisions. 



*Pericarp persistent, nutlets 2-celled. 

 ARCTOSTAPHYLOS OPPOSITIFOLIA P 

 '"Shrub 3-10° high, densely branched 

 above, more or less naked be'ow; stems 

 r-3' in diameter, with light greenish or 

 gray bark smooth or with loose, shred- 

 dy fibers on the upper branches, young 

 shoots minutely tomentose; leaves oppo- 

 site or ternately whorled, narrowly Ian. 

 ceolate, entire, revolute, 1-2^ long, 2-3^'' 

 wide, light green above, minutely to- 

 mentose beneath, with a prominent mid- 

 nerve, the narrow blade gradually taper- 

 ing to a short or obsolete petiole. Inflo- 

 rescence paniculate, the lower floral 

 branches in the axils of the upper oppo- 

 site leaves, which higher up pass gradu- 

 ally into deltoid, more or less acuminate 

 bracts, disposed in whorls of 3 or less at 

 regular intervals, each bract subtending 

 a branch or pedicel, & decurrent as a 

 ridge down the rachis; pedicels 3 or 4 

 times longer than the bract, bibracteo- 

 late close to the base; corolla orbibular, 

 2-23^''^ high, shortly urceolats, with 

 broad, reflexed lobes; stamens 10, an- 

 thers comparatively large, as long as the 

 appendages filaments short, densely 



