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samaras small for the foliage, sub- Ernest Braunton; type in the Xa- 



reniform-orbicular, the width being tional Herbarium." 



about 1-7 cm., the length only 1.4 Ptelea cremilata. 



cm., the base retuse. the apex only Greene, CXH 10:75 (16 Jl 1906), 



very obtuse; body broadly round-oval, as follows: 



large, its width notably greater than "Ptelea ang-ustifolia Brew. & Wats, 



that of the wing, obscurely puberu- Bot. Cal. 1:97, 1876, in part, not 



lent in full maturity, the rugosities Benth. 



tending transversely but almost "Ptelea crenulata Greene, P ttonia 



wholly broken into pitted reticula- 1:216, 1888; Flora Franciscana 75, 



tions. each with a gland at bottom; 1391 ; Man. Bay-Reg. 72. 1894, of all 



etyle and stipe not obscure, both i n part only. 



"Young twigs gland-dotted and 



"The type and only known speci- sparsely hirtelJous-villous, those of 



men. I find on sheet 321, National the second season dark brown or 



Herbarium, collected in California in blackish. glabrate. glandular-tuber- 



by G. R. Vasey, no other data culate and rugulose: leaflets notably 



given; in all the valuable collection unequal, the laterals one-third to two- 



of Californian Ptelea belonging to the third* the size of the terminal, this 



Calif orn'a Academy there is nothing 4 to 7 cm. lor.-, broaii- to narrowly 



showing approach to this in respect cuneate-obovate, all of" rather light 



to either its broad and large oval viv ; d ^ ree n. gland-dotted arid more 



leaflets or its transversely elongated O r less puberulent, the feather veins 



strongly divergent and on the lower 



Ptelea cinnamomea. face whitish and very conspicuous, 



Greene, CXH 10:75 (16 Jl 1906), the margins crenulate, or in the lara:- 

 describes this a^ follows: "Twigs of *st and most vigorous specimens 

 the season of a rather bright cinna- doubly subserrate crenulate, the anex 

 mon-red, glabrous, rugose and glan- acute or in some obtu^ish: branches 

 dular-tuberculate but pol'shed, those of the inflorescence ard the perTcel-s 

 a year old similar but darker and not minutelv hirtellous: filaments hirsu- 

 shining: leaves thin, of a vivid light- tulous from ba^e to above the middle: 

 green above, paler beneath, copiously samara orbicular 1.4 to 1.6 cm. wide, 

 glandular and the glands colorless the length from slisrhtlv less to a trifle 

 and pellucid, obscurely puberulent more, not fiat but distinctly concavo- 

 along the veins beneath, glabrous and convex, sometimes a little retuse at 

 shining above; middle leaflet 5 to 7.5 both ends, sometimes at neither; bodv 

 cm. long, obovate-oblong and obtuse very large and thick, of nearly or 

 as to those of the lower and fruiting quite twice the width of the wins:, 

 branches, elliptic-lanceolate on vigor- very broadly round-oval or almost or- 

 ous sterile shoots, always obtuse, bicular. not circumvallate, closely 

 lisrhtly crenate. the pair two-thirds but irregularly transverse-rugose 

 as large, only slightly jnequ'lateral: and also marked, at least from the 

 samara from suborbicular ' to some- middle unward. by a broad, shallow 

 what obovate, about 18 mm. long, furrow, the whole moderately gland- 

 obtuse at base, at apex subulate- dotted and puberulent; style and stipe 

 pointed, by the projecting style per- short, equal. 



vading a cusp-like continuation of "The description of this more com- 

 the wing, the body very large, much mon Cal'fornian species fs here corn- 

 wider than the width of the wing, pleted in the lifht of perfect mater- 

 suborbicular to round-obovate, the ial from Mount Diablo, partly as col- 

 usual transverse, ridges faint, apt to l^cted by the late Dr. Parry. July 4, 

 be broken into something like a 1872. and partly from a pocket of 

 reticulation, the intervals strongly many mature samaras brought from 

 glandular. thp same locality. October. 1898, by 



"Vicinity of lone. California, in the T>r. C. Hart Merriam. Its habitat on 



foothills of the Sierra, June, 1904, that mountain seems to be in Mitch- 



