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VITACEAE. Grape Famity. 
1. VITIS. Grape. 
1. Vitis Grrpiana Munson, Proc. Soc. Prom. Agr. Sci. §9. 1887. 
nype locality: “San Diego Co.” and “Los Angeles Co. Cali- 
fornia 
Dicesbuaen: Along streams on the coastal and desert slopes 
of the southern California mountains, from Santa Barbara south- 
ward. Upper Sonoran. 
Specimens examined: Sawpit Canyon, San Gabriel Mountains, 
Alice Cooper, Oct. 4, 1908; near Monrovia, Dudley, Nov. 1907; 
Lytle Creek Canyon, Abrams 1955; West Fork of Deep Creek, 
San Bernardino Mountains, Abrams & McGregor 723; vicinity 
of San Bernardino, Parish 5013; Jamul Valley, Susan G. Stokes, 
June 19, 1895; between Foster’s and Ramona, Abrams 3760. 
MALVACEAE. MfatLtow Famity. 
Stigmas linear. 1. Lavatera. 
Stigmas capitate. 
Seeds not comose; fruit with a central axis. 2. Aalacothamnus. 
Seeds comose; fruit without a central axis. 3. Aibiscus 
1. LAVATERA. TREE MALLow. 
1. LAVATERA ASSURGENTIFLORA Kell. Proc. Calif. Acad. 1: 14 
1854. 
Type locality: “Island of Anacapa, off the coast of Santa Bar- 
bara.” 
Distribution: A native of the islands off the coast of southern 
California; cultivated on the mainland where it sometimes appears 
as an escape. 
2. MALACOTHAMNUS. Busy Matuow. 
Calyx and herbage clothed with very short-rayed stellate pubescence. 
Leaves green above, sparsely stellate-pubescent 
Inflorescence mostly simple; flower-clusters nearly sessile. 
1. Af. fasciculatus. 
Inflorescence branched; flower-clusters ie 
ta. Af. fasciculatus splendidus. 
Leaves hoary on both surfaces, with a si sie aioe eee 
1. Nutta 
