140 LBAFLETB. 



terminal leaflet of deltoid -ovate cut, H inches long and as wide, 

 incisely cleft into 3 segments all doubly crenate and obtuse ; lat- 

 eral leaflets doubly crenate: inflorescence seemingly a panicle of 

 alternate divaricate short spikes; bracts villous-tomentulose 

 from base to summit but not ciliate : immature fruits densely 

 wavy-granular and sparsely soft-bristly. 



This perplexing shrub — seeming to exhibit spikes arranged 

 in a truly panicled general inflorescence as in Rhus ox Styphonia — 

 is known only from along Little Chico Creek, Butte Co., Calif., 

 as collected by Mrs. Austin in 1883, and with it — at least from 

 the same station — fragments of a verj- dissimilar species also 

 new, but not to be characterized from the fragments at hand. 

 I have seen S. anomala only, in my own herbarium, where there 

 are two full sheets. 



S. Orbgana.' Twigs and branches rather densely soft-pubes- 

 cent for two seasons : foliage sparsely so on both faces, but the 

 veins beneath beset with long appressed pilose or setose hairs 

 besides the short and downy indument ; terminal leaflet li inches 

 long, usually obovate-cuneiform, rarely broader above, lightly 

 and doubly crenate : bracts of the spike altogether tomentose 

 on the back, scarcely ciliolate ; fruits granular, sparingly setose. 



Grant's Pass, Oregon, 27 May, 1884, Thomas Howell, U. S. 

 Herb. ; with a second specimen from the same place, in leaf 

 only, of a distinct species. 



S. SLOMEBATA. Branches stout, straight, rigid, ash-gray, 

 glabrous, the young growing twigs puberulent : foliage s ubcor- 

 iaceous, deep green above, glaucescent beneath, obscurely and 

 sparsely puberulent on both faces: terminal leaflet li inches 

 long, rhomboidal in outline, deeply and rather sinuately 6-lobed, 

 the lobes obtuse ; laterals iisually 3-lobed : bracts pubescent at 

 base, naked and rugulose on the back, the margin delicately 

 ciliolate : fruit smallish, in compacted short glomerules forming 

 a long thyrsus at ends of branches ; epicarp granulate, very 

 sparsely short-setose. 



Pocatello, Idaho, May and July, 1893, Dr. Pftlmer, nn. 44 and 

 396 as in U. S. Herb, 



