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ulate lobes, or these coherent above, 

 leaving narrowly oblong perforations: 

 style y 2 line long beyond the margin of 

 the fruit: pedicels V 2 inch long, firm 

 but recurved." — Greene, Pittonia 1:31 

 (amended description). 



"Common on mossy shelves and 

 crevices of the high rocky summits 

 and northward slopes of Santa Cruz 

 Island."— Greene, Torr cl b 13:218 (N 

 1886, with earliest description). 



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