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£903] NOTES ON GARRYA 461 
not come from the pubescence but is noticeable where the leaves 
arealmost smooth. Leaves large, oval to elliptical, entire, acute 
at each end with a recurved mucro at apex; petioles 1-1.5™ 
long; pubescence sparse, upper surface of leaves generally 
glabrous except when young. Involucres deeper than in G. 
flavescens, being about 3™™ at the middle while the preceding is 
about 1™". Calyx divisions close to the beak of the base of the 
styles and concealed in the young fruit by dense hairs. 
Grows in the Southern Sierra Nevada where Pinus monophylla is found 
or in the Coast Mountains where Pseudotsuga macrocarpa grows. Specimens 
are in the Herbarium of the California Academy from Kings River Cafion, 
San Emidio Cafion, Tehachapi, Kaweah Cafion, and Zaca Mountain, Santa 
Barbara county. The last-named specimens were collected by the author, 
June 1902, and have smaller, narrower leaves than specimens from other 
localities. 
Garrya rigida, n. sp.—Erect shrub, 1--2™ high, with older 
stems gray-brown, becoming darker with age, youngest gener- 
ally red though sometimes green, glabrous throughout except for 
a Sparse, appressed pubescence on the younger stems, leaves, and 
‘bracts. Leaves elliptical-obovate, thick, coriaceous, entire, bright 
green, noticeably reticulate, 5°™ long, 2.5°™ wide on an average, 
tipped with an obtuse mucro, tapering at base to a thick petiole 
1 long; petioles connate-clasping. Aments fascicled or some- 
times solitary at the ends of the branchlets, 1~1.5°™ long or less, 
with 5-15 involucres connected by the peduncle which between 
each involucre becomes longer than the stamens; lowest invo- 
lucres with recurved foliaceous tips as long as the body of the 
involucre, upper tipped with stiff points which diminish towards 
the ultimate flowers; body of the involucre green or red, gener- 
ally tipped with green, pubescent at the middle and base. Flow- 
ers on filiform pedicels, 5-6™™"; divisions of perianth green, 
I-nerved, linear, white-hairy at top, 5™™ long, glabrous on inner 
side, united at tip, but later separating ; stamens green, changing 
to yellow, with anthers 2™ long, longer than the filaments. 
Pistillate aments rigid, 1-4°" long, with the involucres closely 
imbricated and green, in other respects resembling those of the 
staminate flowers; flowers apetalous, 6 to each involucre, 2 styles 
to each pistil, black, narrowly subulate, sparingly clothed with 
