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3. EpHepRA ca.irornica S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 14: 300. 
1879. 
Type locality: “Promontory near San Diego, and Jamul 
Valley.” 
Distribution: The Mohave Desert, southward to Lower Cali- 
fornia, extending westward to the coast in the vicinity of San 
Diego and southward. Lower Sonoran. 
Specimens examined: Between Victor and Stoddard Wells, 
Coville F Funsten 159; Whitewater, S. B. & W. F. Parish 653; 
eastern slope of San Gorgonio Pass, Leiberg 3234; Coyote Canyon, 
Santa Rosa Mountains, Hall 2863; Jacumba Hot Spring, Mearns 
3332; Campo, Abrams 3600; North Coronado, Knapp, 1895; 
Tia Juana, Abrams 3480. 
PHOENICACEAE. Paim Famity. 
1. NEOWASHINGTONIA. CatirorNia FAN-PALM. 
I. a FILAMENTOSA Sudworth, - S. Dept. Agr. 
. Forest. Bull. no 14: 105. 18 
Pritchardia prance Wendl. Bot. Zeit. 34: or ‘yea 
Pritchardia filifera Linden, Ill. Hort. 24. 
Washingtonia filifera Wendl. Bot. Zeit. 37: 7 "1879. 
Washingtonia filamentosa Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 2: 737. 1891. 
ype locality: Described from young plants cultivated in 
Europe. The source of the seeds is not definitely known. 
Distribution: The California fan-palm occurs in a few scat- 
tered groves along the base of the desert ranges a few miles north 
of Indio, and again at Palm Springs on the eastern base of Mount 
San Jacinto. An interesting account, and an exhaustive bibliog- 
raphy of the genus, was given by Parish in the Botanical Ga- 
zette, Dec., 1907 
Specimens examined: Palm Springs, Dudley, Dec. 1902. 
LILIACEAE. Lity Famity. 
Flowers polygamo-dioecious; perianth-segments I-nerved; filaments filiform; 
fruit thin and membranous, bursting irregularly 1. Nolina. 
Flowers ent perianth-segments many- cperyeas filaments clavate; fruit a 
walled capsule, or baccate, aaa or loculicidal. 
Style ‘iliform, stigma capitate, long-papillat 2. Hesperoyucca. 
Style stout or wanting, 6-notched, openly ene 
