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a pinkish tinge; fr often persistent until 

 2d fl'ing in F, smooth & shining, deep p- 

 red, 4*4 lines in diameter; copious and 

 rather dense granular pulp; putamen 

 smooth externally, solid,- 5-eelled, 1 or 

 more abortive. Or s j Py Dav ac pr 4 

 34; Xylococcus bicolor Nutt, Py Ca ac b 

 2 496. Arc clevelandi G? 



ARCTOSTAPHYLOS PARRYANA Lmn. 

 "A much branched shrub, 3-5 high: 

 foliage coriaceous, bright green; blade 

 ovate or oblong )4,-\' long, acute or ob- 

 tuse, entire, conspicuously impressed 

 veiny; petioles slender, x /i~V^ long: in- 

 florescence paniculate corymbose, the 

 pedicels & bracteoles w-tomentose: 

 bracts foliaceous, narrow; bracteoles 2 



terminal leaves, secund & horizontal, ra- 

 chis, bracts, pedicels, and calyx long to~ 

 mentose; bracts about }/ 2 as long as the 

 pedicels, corolla 3 lines long, stamens 10 

 (occasionally 8), filaments bearded be- 

 low, anther appendages about as long as 

 the anthers; style shortly exserted; ova- 

 ry hairy hispid above. Fr small, 2 lines 

 broad, warty, with a solid 5-celled puta- 

 men cells more or less abortive. Needs 

 comparison with the Mexican type, 

 which probably includes several pub- 

 lished species." — Parry Dav ac pr 4 35. 



Or s j A polifolia B-W non H KK. 



A colored portrait of this in Datos pa- 

 ra la materia medica Mexicana, (pt 311) 

 well represents our shrub. It enjoys in 



or 3 lines long, deltoid, with calloustips: m the names madronyo borracho, and 

 segments of the rotate calyx obtuse: fr garambullo— the latter name in j is ap- 



plied to Cereus sargentianus — and is in 



medicinal repute. 



§ Micrococcus Py Dav ac pr 4 36: — Fr 

 with thin pericarp, without mealy pulp, 

 wrinkled at maturity; 4 or 5 nutlets easi- 

 ly separating — in 2 divisions. 



*Pericarp persistent, nutlets 2-celled. 



ovate or globose, %-%' long, y'ish; 

 ocarp smooth & glabrous, rather thin; 

 endocarp of from 5-7 firmly united bony 

 carpels, apiculate at each end, & marked 

 with longitudinal ridges corresponding 

 with the back of the carpels: seeds 2 lin. 

 long, incurved, w. Tehachapi mts." — 

 Lemmon pitt 2 68 



§Comarostaphylis G: — fr warty, puta- 

 men solid, 5-celled. 



A ARGUTA Zucc. v. diversifolia Parry. 

 "Shrub 6-15 ft'rrgh; stems 1-3 inches 



ARCTOSTAPHYLOS OPPOSITIFOLIA P 

 ' "Shrub 3-10 high, densely branched 

 above, more or less naked below; stems 

 r-3' in diameter, with light greenish or 

 gray bark smooth or with loose, shred- 

 dy fibers on the upper branches, young 

 in diameter, with light gray bark slight- shoots minutely tomentose; leaves oppo- 

 ly furrowed, on the upper branches site or ternately whorled, narrowly lan- 

 shreddy, & on the young, growing shoots ceolate, entire, revolute, 1-2' long, 2-3" 



tomentose; leaves varving greatly in 

 size a form, according to position or sea- 

 son of growth; in young, vigorous off- 

 shoots or suckers, broably lanceolate, 

 3/4' long byiV^ 7 broad, smooth on both 



wide, light green above, minutely to- 

 mentose beneath, with a prominent mid- 

 nerve, the narrow blade gradually taper- 

 ing to a short or obsolete petiole. Inflo- 

 rescence paniculate, the lower florai 



sides, reticulate, scarcely at all revolute; branches in the axils of the upper oppo- 



on the upper & fl'ing branches, narrowly site leaves, which higher up pass gradu- 



lanceolate, strongly revolute, & tomen- ally into deltoid, more or iess acuminate 



tose beneath, in all more or less irregu- bracts, disposed in whorls ot 3 or less at 



larly serrate, with mucronate cartilagin- regular intervals, each bract subtending 



ous teeth & short petioles. Inflorescence a branch or pedicel, & decurrent as a 



racemose, from the axils of the upper ridge down the rachis; pedicels 3 or 4 



