1903] NOTES ON GARRYA 457 
generally near the base. There are also two kinds of pubescence 
in each class. In one the pubescence on the lower surface of 
the leaves is formed of curly or ‘curly and wavy hairs intermixed 
to form a dense tomentum;, in the other the pubescence, when 
present, consists of almost straight hairs, generally upwardly 
appressed and silky in texture. 
In the following key these characteristics have been used to 
classify the different species, and, until they are better known in 
flower and fruit, it seems the only possible way and may perhaps 
accord with the natural affinities. 
PROVISIONAL SYNOPSIS OF THE SPECIES OF GARRYA. 
* Aments not branched. 
Pubescence of tangled, curly, or wavy hairs. 
Garrya Veatchit Kellogg Proc. Cal. Acad. 5: 40. 
Palmerit nom. nov. 
undulata var. nov. 
eliptica Lindl. Bot. Reg. pl. 1686. 
Congdon sp. nov. 
Pubescence of upwardly appressed, almost straight, stlky hairs. 
Garrya buxifolia Gray. Proc. Am. Acad. 7: 349. 
flavescens Watson Am. Nat. 7: 301. 
pallida Eastwood Proc. Cal. Acad. III. 2; 267. 
rigida sp. nov. 
Fremontu Torr. Pac. Rail. Rep. 4: 136. 
laxa var. Nov. 
* * Some of the aments branched. 
Pubescence of curly hairs. 
Garrya ovata Benth. Pl. Hartw. 14. 
Lindheimeri Torr. Pac. Rail. Rep. 4: 136. 
macrophylla Benth. Pl. Hartw. 50. 
oblonga Benth. Pl. Hartw. 50. 
longifolia Rose (in herb ).* 
*This is doubtfully placed here. There seem to be two different species of . Prin- 
gle’s collection with this name, and I do not know which is the type. One seems too 
near G. /aurifolia. 
