(117) 
“A shrub 1o ft. high; Apolo, 4800 ft., July 2, 1902” (No. 1512). 
The species is apparently near M. arboreum 
SOLANACEAE 
Lycium divaricatum sp. 
Divaricately much pace the branchlets and leaves cine- 
reous, the spinose branchlets about 10- 30 mm. long; leaves fas- 
cicled on a ees: base, 6-12 mm. long, 1-3 mm. wide, oblance- 
olate, obtuse, tapering to the base, thick, the midrib very stout, 
the margin revolute; pedicel about 6 mm. long, thickened at the 
x ) 
summit; caly mm. long, tubular, divided two-thirds of t 
he sinuses rounded, the lobes lanceolate, obtuse; corolla 
infundibular, 13 long, the lanceolate, obtuse, recurved or 
spreading lobes about 3 mm. long, slightly exceeding the small, 
short anthers; stigma large, capitate, strongly two-lobed; berry 
about 4 mm. long, deep red-purple, the seeds few and large. 
“A spreading bush, 10 ft. high; Yura, 8400 ft., Aug. 10, 1901” 
(No. 2554). 
Brachistus subfalcata sp. nov. 
Branchlets elongated, stout, flexuose, terete, pilose with coarse 
yellow spreading hairs, the intern Gace 2 t length about 5 c 
long; leaves tapering into a very short, aes margined p etiole, 
10-20 cm. long, 4-8 cm. wide, lance-oblong, ie falcate, ae 
at both ends, very acute, thin, sparsely pilose or sub-strigose on 
both surfaces, the strongly ascending slender secondaries about 10 
on each side; ‘low wer not seen; pedicels mostly 3-5, slender, about 10 
mm. long in aie fruiting ‘calyx about 8 mm. broad; fruit sub- 
Blo0o8s about 10 mm. long, deep red purple. 
“San Buena Ventura, 1400 ft., Nov. 14, 19017’ (Wo. 660). 
Brachistus coccinea sp. nov. 
Petioles 8-20 mm. long; blades 5-15 cm. long, 2— 
entire, glabrate el finely strigose beneath, the secondaries 
a on each side, very slender; fascicles about 5—8-flowered; 
flowering pedicels 3-5 mm. long, 2 or 3 times as long in fruit, 
upwardly thickened and faintly angled; flower about 5 mm. long, 
broadly campanulate; calyx nee half the length of the corolla, 
divided about half way, the ten teeth linear, in fruit about kes 
as large and recurved; corolla (ellowish) puberulent, divided abou 
half way, little exceeding the short and broad anthers; fruit Beate 
or slightly oblate, about 7 mm. broad when dry, scarlet, heavily 
“Six feet high; San Buena Ventura, 1400 ft., Nov. 30, 1g01”’ 
(Nos. 623 and 634). 
