(404 ) 
near San Gabriel, Bigelow, March 23, 1854; Little Santa Anita 
Canyon, San Gabriel Mountains, Abrams 2639; near Monrovia, 
Dudley, Dec. 8, 1907; hills near Elsinore Lake, Dutton, June 2, 
1898; Jamul, Susan G. Stokes, June 19, 1895; San Diego, Herre, 
July 23, 1902; Chandler 4122. 
RHAMNACEAE. Bucxrsorn Famity. 
Fruit drupaceous, free from the calyx. 
rupe enclosing a single stone. 1. Condalia. 
Drupe enclosing 2-4 nutlets. 2. Rhamnus. 
Fruit becoming nearly or quite dry, partly inferior. 
Calyz-lobes deciduous; style elongated, 3-lobed. 3. Ceanothus. 
Calyx-lobes persistent; style short, notched. 4. Adolphia. 
1. CONDALTA. 
Petals none; sepals persistent; drupe 5 mm. long. 1. C. spathulata. 
Petals ean sepals deciduous. 
m. long, beakless; herbage canescent. 2. C. divaricata. 
Drupe a mm. long, beaked; herbage glabrous. 3. C. Parryi. 
1. Conpatia spatHuLata A. Gray, Pl. Wright. 1: 32. 1852. 
Type ee “On the Rio Grande, Texas; and prairies on the 
San Felipe.” 
Distribution: Southwestern Texas to the Colorado Desert of 
southern California. I have not seen any specimens of this from 
southern California, but according to Trelease (A. Gray, Syn. 
FI. 1, pt. 1: 403) it has been collected at Mesquite, Parish 793. 
Lower Sonoran. 
2. Conpatia pivaricata A. Nelson, Bot. Gaz. 47: 427. 
1909. 
Zizyphus lycoides canescens A. Gray, U.S. Geog. Sur. 6: 82. 1878. 
Condalia lycoides canescens Trelease, A. Gray, Syn. Fl. 1, pt. 1: 
403. 1897. 
Type locality: “Las Vegas, Nevada. 
Distribution: Southern Nevada southward through western 
Arizona and the deserts of southern California to northern Lower 
California. Lower Sonoran. 
Specimens examined: I have not seen any specimens from south- 
ern California, but according to Trelease (I. c.) it has been collected 
by Parish at Mammoth Tank in the Colorado Desert. 
