Knrotia. CIIENOPODIACEyK. 55 



17. A. Torreyi, 'Watson, 1. c. Diffusely and rigidly liranchod, 2 to 5 feet high, 

 strongly angled; the branchlets divaricate and spincseent: leaves triangidar-ovate 

 to -oblong or somewhat hastate, a half to an inch long, ahniptly acute : calyx 

 deeply 4-eleft : bracts orbicular to reniforni, a line or two bnKid, distinct, strongly 

 compressed, obscurely denticulate : seed light-colored. — Obioiie 2'oryei/i, Watson, 

 IJot. King Exp. 290. 



East of the Sierra Nevada in the (hy valleys of Nevada, and on the Mohave (Cooper) ; Southern 

 Utah, Palmer. 



18. A. Bre'wreri, "Watson. Stout, G feet high or more, grayish-puberulent ; the 

 branches terete, somewhat ilexuous : leaves ovate-oblong, somewhat rhombic, cune- 

 ate at base, obtuse or abruptly acute, an inch or two long : calyx deeply 4-cleft : 

 bracts spongy, ovate to rounded, convex, united at the margin to the middle, entire, 

 1 to H lines broad. — Rev. Chenop. 119. 



On tlie seashore at Santa Jlonica {Breicer) and Santa Barbara, Torrcy. 



-»-•♦--*- Fruifhig brarf.<t large, rounded; thick and scurfy, united at base around 

 the seed ; the diluted, murgins free, entire; the sides not muricate: erect 

 densely whife-senrfy shrubs. 



19. A, confertifolia, AVatson, 1. c. Diffusely branched, 1 to 5 feet high, some- 

 what s])inescent : leaves ovate or obovatc to oblanceolate, 2 to 8 lines long, obtuse 

 or acutish, cuneate at base, shortly ])etioled or sessile, entire : flower-clusters small, 

 axillary : calyx 5-cleft : bracts sessile, 2 to 6 lines long, cuneate-orbicular : seed a 

 line broad. — Obione confertifolia, Torrey, Frem. liep. 318. 0. spiiiosa,'bil.O(i\xiT\, 

 1. c. 108. 



Abundant in dry valleys in the interior from N.Nevada to Utah and S. Coloiwlo and south- 

 ward U) Northern Mexico. 



20. A. hymenelytra, "Watson, 1. c. Diifusely branched, 2 or 3 feet high : 

 leaves deltoid, orbicular or rhombic, \ to H inches broad, coarsely toothed, truncate 

 or cuneate at base, on short petioles: flower-clusters paniculate-spicate : calyx 

 f) parted : fruiting bracts 3 to G lines broad, on a short thick ])edicel, reniform- 

 orbicular : seed a line broad. — Obione hymenelytra, Torrey, Pacif. E. Rep. iv. 

 129, t. 20. 



In dry valleys from the Colorado eastward through Arizona and S. Utah. 

 H- H- -1- -1- Fruiting bracts connate and indicated, not scurfy or viuricate, with 

 four distinct broadly dilated icings, veined and entire or toothed. 



21. A. canescens, James. Erect and shrubby, two feet high or less: leaves 

 oblanceolate to narrowly oblong or linear, ^ to 2 inches long, obtuse or acutish, nar- 

 roweil to the base, entire : flowers mostly dioecious, in panicled spikes : calyx 5-cleft : 

 fruiting bracts forming a thick and indurated body 2 or 3 lines long, shortly pedi- 

 cellate and with a narrow bilid apex, the 4 (rarely 8) broad lateral wings 3 to G lines 

 long, overtopping the free apex and somewliat decurrent upon the pedicel : seed a 

 lino broad. — Watson, lv(^v. Chenop. 120. J'ln-or/iifnn occidenfalf, TovToy, From. 

 Ifep. 318. Obione oceidcntalis & Berlandieri, Moiiuin, 1. c. O. (rfraptera, IJenth. 

 Bot. Suli-h. 48. 



A very frequent species in the interior, from Northern Nevada and Colorado to Northern Mexico 

 and S. California ; San Bernardino to San Diego and eastward. 



8. EUROTIA, Adanson. 

 Flowers dicccious or monoecious. Rtaminate flowers without bracts : calyx 

 4-parted : stamens as many, with slender exserted filaments. Pistillate flowers 

 bibracteate, without perianth. Bracts sessile, obeompre.ssed, united, becoming 



