Plant. nov. in Florida subtropica indigenae a John K. Small descriptae. 998 
very small bracts similar to the leaves: calyx about 1,5 mm long during 
anthesis, becoming 3 mm long, the relatively large crest about the middle: 
corolla deep blue, about 1,5 cm long; tube gradually from about the middle 
to the top; the middle lobe of the upper lip notched, the lower lip 
broadly and shallowly 3-lobed: nutlets slightly over 1 mm long, shallowly 
papillose. 
A species related to Scutellaria Havanensis Jacq., differing in its erect 
stem, copiously pubescent and thick leaf-blades, and shaggy pubescent 
corolla. 
Florida: The type-specimens were collected in the pinelands near 
Camp Longview in XI, 1903 (Small & Carter, no. 1094). Specimens 
belonging to this species have been collected both on the mainland and 
in the Bahamas, viz.: Eleuthera, Bahamas (Coker, no. 388). Between 
Homestead and Camp Jackson, Florida (Small & Carter, no. 1670). 
28. Ruellia succulenta Small, |. c., p. 437. 
Stems solitary or slightly tufted, 1,5—5 dm tall, succulent, mainly 
simple, sometimes with few erect or nearly erect branches, purplish or 
greenish purple minutely and inconspicuously puberulent, the internodes 
long, those on the lower part of the stem very long, the nodes somewhat 
enlarged: leaves opposite. distant, rather fleshy; blades narrowly oblong 
to spatulate, 2,5— 4,5 cm long, purplish or greenish purple, narrowed into 
short petiole-like bases: calyx about 1,5 cm long; lobes linear-filiform, 
sparingly ciliate: corolla purplish blue, about 4 em long; finely pubescent, 
the funnelform throat about as long as the tube: limb 3,5—4,5 cm broad, 
the lobes ovate or orbicular-ovate: capsule oblong or nearly so, abruptly 
contracted into the stipe-like base which is not manifest beyond the calyx- 
tube, about as long as the calyx-lobes. 
A charaeteristic species, growing scattered or in colonies, with stiffly 
erect simple or nearly simple succulent more or less fistulose stems, thus 
differing from Ruellia parviflora (Nees) Britton, with its firm diffusely 
branched hispid or hispidulous stems. 
Florida: The type-specimens were collected in the everglades between 
Cutler and Camp Longview in XI, 1903 (Small & Carter, no. 1271, 
flowers, and no. 1271a, fruit). It was also found at Black Point (Small 
& Carter, no. 1101). 
. 29. Ernodea angusta Small, |. c., p. 438. 
A spreading or prostrate shrub, the branches sometimes elongated, 
clothed with a gray bark: leaves numerous; bladesleathery, linear or nearly 
so, 2—4 cm long, acute, entire, glabrous, sessile: flowers nearly sessile: 
sepals linear-lanceolate, 2,5—3 mm long, acute, nearly half as long as 
the corolla-tube: corolla whitish; tube slightly exceeding the length of 
the hypanthium and calyx, generally 10 mm long; lobes linear or nearly 
so, about 5 mm long: filaments as long as the corolla-tube: drupes oval, 
5—6 mm long. 
Quite common on the coral-sand rock, related to Ernodea littoralis Sw.: 
differing in the narrow leaf-blades and smaller flowers. 
