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of so-called P. aptera in the third vol- sula. 



ume of Garden and Forest, as I have "Specimens of the fruit of P. nuci- 



suggested below under that species." fera appear to have been communi- 



"Plainly a synonym of P. aptera, cated by Mr. Brandegee to Dr. Parry; 



which see for remarks confirming- for in the Parry Herbarium I find 



this opinion." Orcutt. attached to the type sheet two pock- 



Ptelca nucifera ets> one cont aining ni s types of the 



Greene, CNH 10:75 (16 Jl 1906), fruit of p - a Ptera and so labelled; 



describes this as follows: "Ptelea the other ^closing five perfect sa- 



aptera Brandegee, Proc. Cal. Acad. maras of p - nucifera. This pocket is 



II. 2- 138 1889 not Parry without a mark of any kind in Dr. 



"Evidently a low stunted shrub, the Parry's hand; as if he may have en- 

 branches of the .season and leaf-bear- tertained some doubt about its con- 

 ing twigs mostly less than an inch tents bein ^ referable to P. aptera." 

 long, dark brown, puberulent, not _ " Plai nly a synonym of P. aptera." 

 strongly tuberculate; flowers and ear- 

 ly foliage not known; mature leaves F-elca aptera. 



subcoriaceous, small, the leaflets very "The type of this was collected by 

 unequal, the lateral pair usually C. C. Parry at Punta Banda, a prom- 

 greatly reduced and unequally so, the ontory which forms the southern 

 odd leaflet narrowly obovate-oblong shore of Todos Santos bay, Baja Call- 

 to obovate, lightly and not closely forma, on January 24, 1883. The 

 donate, the whole leaf glabrous and season was what is known as a dry 

 coarsely gland-dotted above, scantily year, little rain having fallen, and only 

 pubescent beneath; fruits oval, 2 cm. a few old fruits were secured, the 

 Icng, very th ck and nut-like, encir- shrubs then being in young leaf and 

 cled by a distinct though narrow early* flower; the fruits secured at 

 wing, this and the body thickly beset this time were small, perhaps infer- 

 with low tubercles frustulate at sum- tile ones, but the same locality was 

 jtnit. visited again in 1884, in 1885, and 



"Las Huevitas, Lower California, in 1886, and an abundance of mater- 

 May 20, 1889, T. S. Brandegee. Type ial secured. The fruits collected at 

 in the Herbarium of the California a later date varied greatly, some be- 

 Academy. It is mounted on the same ing several times as large as the or- 

 fiheet with some of Dr. Parry's speci- iginal specimens. The first speci- 

 ri.-ns of his P. aptera, and even the mens were wingless, but in the later 

 fruits of P. nucifera, all detached collections many were found with 

 from the twigs that supported them, narrow but well definedt wings. The 

 have been recklessly placed within type specimens of P. obscura were 

 the fame. pocket containing those of collected near Santo Tomas, at the 

 P. aptera; but they are so different summit or on the south slope of the 

 as to be segregated without the least ridge which at its western extremity 

 difficulty. They are fully three times is known as Punta Banda, and there 

 now and then four times the size can be no doubt of its identity with 

 of P. aptera, but have a wing. The typical P. aptera. Santo Tomas is 

 body has its own outline, being ex- only a few miles from the sea. P. 

 act.ly oval in P. nucifera, whereas in nucifera also in nowise differs from 

 P. a^tera it is. as Dr. Parry said, P. aptera as it may be observed in 

 "broadly ovate'. the type locality. Prof. Greene is 



"The locality of P. nucifera is well author of 54 (and jo'nt author with 



down toward the middle of the Low- Dr. Rose of two others) of the 59 



er California Peninsula, and at some species of Ptelea which he recog- 



distance insland, in the vicinity of nires; it ?'s to be hoped that they 



a desert water holo, while P. aptera are not all based upon 'specimens' 



i^. maritime, inhabiting hills that instead of specific characters, as 



r-1 -pe down to the sea, well toward seems to be the case with P. nuci- 



the northern extremity of the penin- fera and P. obscura. I may add that 



