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cent on both faces ; terminal leaflet 1 incli long, fully as broad 

 in the middle above the more or less sharply cuneate base, 3-lobed, 

 the terminal lobe with 3, each lateral with 2 broad obtuse teeth 

 or lobes; lateral leaflets half as large, round-oval or obovate, 

 crenate-lobed around the summit : spikes panicled at ends of 

 branches ; bracts tomentose across the base, at apex glabrous, 

 even as to the margin : fruits smallish, globose, sparsely hirsute. 



Griffith Park, Los Angeles Co., Calif., Apr. and Nov. 1902, 

 Ernest Braunton, in U. S. Herb. 



S. STEAMINBA. Growing twigs puberulent ; also the foliage, 

 but this not strongly so, glaucescent above, more so beneath : 

 terminal leaflet 3-lobed and the lobes crenate ; laterals crenate : 

 flowers not yellow, only pale straw-color ; bracts pubescent at 

 base only, above glabrous and with margin not only naked but 

 scarious : fruit not seen. 



Along Lyttle Creek, San Gabriel Reserve, Calif., 27 Apr. 1898, 

 J. B. Leiberg in U. S. Herb. Specimen in full grown leaf, 

 while not yet out of flower. 



S. CKUCIATA. Rigidly and divergently branching, growing 

 twigs pubescent: leaves dark green but glaucescent above, 

 lighter beneath yet not there glaucescent, pubescent along the 

 veins, the upper face merely scaberulous : terminal leaflet 1 inch 

 long and the same breadth in the middle, somewhat cruciform 

 above the abruptly cuneate base, showing 3 broad lobes, the 

 laterals divaricate, all more or less crenate-toothed or-lobed ; 

 lateral leaflets round-obovate, crenate : bracts of spike pubes- 

 cent only at base, the naked margin subscarious : fruit waxy- 

 granular, glabrous. 



Hot Springs in the northern part of San Diego Co., Calif., 

 1875, Dr. Bdw. Palmer. 



S. QUISTATA. Rhus iriobata, var. quinata, Jeps. Eryth. i. 141. 

 Large species, common in middle Californian coastal mountains 

 and valleys. 



S. AKOMALA. Growing twigs soft-pubescent with short 

 mostly deflexed hairs : foliage large, as nearly quinate as that of 

 S. quinata, more or less densely soft-pubescent on both faces ; 



