Jihus. ANACARDIACE.E. 385 



pair of transverse bractlets; inflorescenco of short and at first commonlv amc-iitif..rm 

 spikes, eitlier solitary or thyrsoid-glomerate, or more loosely |,aiiieulute : disk eommonlv 

 lobed: drupcs,viseid-jiul)esceut : erect slirulis. 



++ Evergreen, with rigid coriaceous pinnate leaves, wingless rhachis, rather open paniculate 

 inflorescence, and white or rose-colored harely polygamous flcnvers. 

 R. Virens, Lindh. Shruh. 4 to 1 2 feet high, glahrous or ni<.stly yuung parts soft-puherulent : 

 leaflets 3 to 9, ovate or olilong, inch or more long, entire, shining ahove, slightly petiuhilate : 

 panicles mostly shorter than the leaves: drupes 4 or 5 lines in diameter. — Li'ndh. in Gray, 

 J'l. I.imlh. i)t. 2, 159 (Jan. 1850); (Jray, pi. Wriglit. i. 31, ii. 27. A', sempfrrirpm, Scheelt'i 

 Liunaca. xxiii. 556 (1850?); Kngler, I.e. 390, e.xci. var. — \V. & S. Texas (first coll. by 

 Bcrlaiulier) to S. Arizona; fl. autumn, or also in summer. (Mex., first coll bv J'h 

 Coulter.) 



++ ++ Evergreen, with very rigid coriaceous and mostly simple leaves, more glomerate 

 and bracteato inflorescence, and rose-colored or wiiite jwlygamous flowers. — .sV^^jAwi/u, 

 Nutt. in Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 220. 



R. integrifolia, Benth. & Hook. Shrub, 2 to 6 feet high, or southward a small tree, very 

 leafy . leaves oval, very obtuse at both ends or acutish at base, entire or variably spinulose- 

 (lenticulate, inch or two long, dark green and shining above, and with transverse veins in 

 dry state prominulous, short-petioled, occasionally a longer petiole bearing 3 similar leaflets, 

 the lateral ones sessile and smaller : inflorescence and young parts cinereous or canescentlv 

 puberulent: bracts and similar but thinner bractlets orbicular : sepals oval-orbicular, thin- 

 chartaceous, and somewhat scariou.s-margined, glabrous or glabrate, ciliolate : drupes half 

 inch in diameter, very viscid and acid. — Benth. & Hook. ace. to Wats. Cat. PI. Wheeler 

 Kep. 7, & I'roc. Am. Acad. xx. 358 (Brew. & Wats, Bot. Calif, i. 110, in pajrt) ; Engler, 1. c. 

 387, in part.i Sti//ilwnia integrifolia. & 5. serrata, Nutt. in Torr. & Grav, Fl. i. 220, & Svlv. 

 iii. 4, 6, t. 62. —Cliffs on the sea-shore, S. California and islands, I.os Angeles Co.2 to San 

 Diego, first coll. by Nuttall. Fruit or its excretion used for acidulous drinks. (Lower 

 Calif.) 



R. ovata, Watson. Shruh, more glabrous : leaves larger and more lucid (2 or 3 inches 

 long and petiole half to three fourths inch long), ovate or snbcordate, mostlv entire and acu- 

 minate or acute: bracts and calyx as in preceding but more glabrate, the latter hardlv 

 at all ciliolate: drupes a third inch in diameter (the viscid a(^d secretion becoming a 

 sweet manna-like incrustation, Orcutt, W. Am. Scient. iii. 46). — Proc. Am. Acad. xx. 358 

 but flowers white and pink, not "pale yellow." R. integrifolia, Engler, 1. c., in part. Stif- 

 phonia serrntn, Torr. Pacif. R. Rep. vii. t. 2 (excl. a separate leaf), & Bot. Mex. Bound. 44, 

 mainly. — Mountains of S. Californa, from Santa Barbara^ to Sau Diego, and S. W. Ari- 

 zona, probably first coll. by T/i. Coulter. (Lower Calif.) 

 R. Lentii. Kellogg, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. ii. 16, & plate in He.xperian (November, 1859, 



ace. to Mrs. Curran), reprinted in Bull. Calif. Acad. Sci. i., is an allied species of Cedros Island, 



•with very large frnit. Ii. Ilindxiana, Engler, 1. c. 388, can hardly be the same if it has ovate 



acute bracts and leaves less obtuse at base. 



++++++ Deciduous-leaved shrubs: flowers ■polygamo-dioccious, in solitarv or small-clu.s- 

 tered spikes or heads which are formed in summer or autumn and develop in sj)ring 

 before the leaves. — § Lobadium, Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 219. Lobadium, Raf. Am. Monthly 

 Mag. iv. 357. 



R. Canadensis, Marsh. Shrub with spreading branches, 3 to 7 feet high, with bark and 

 foli.ige not unjdc.isantly scented: leaves membranaceous, .3-foliolate, soft-pubescent when 

 young, commonly glabrate at maturity ; leaflets rhombic-obovate or ovate, the ternnnal one 

 cuneate-attenuate at base but .«essile or nearly so, sometimes 3-cleft, all coar.«elv or sinuately 



toothed or inci.-;ed, 1 to 3 inches long: flowers honey-yellow: drupes as large as peas. 



Arb. 120 (1785, and adequately characterized). R. uromatica (the pubescent), & R. sua- 



1 Add Sargent. Silv. iii. 27. t. 109. 



2 Norlhwfstwanl to S.mta Barbara, Dr. Anlisell. 



* Al.so (ace. to Brandegec) upon the Santa Barbara Islands, where inclining to be arboreous. 



