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Calophanes peninsularia Rom, u. sj.. A compact shrubby plant 4 feet high, but 

 yotiiifT ijurts and iiiUutesceuce glutiuous: leaves small (about 1 inch long), 

 ovate to ovate-lanceolate on short petioles : tiowers axillary or on short lateral 

 branches: bracts small, deciduous: calyx 3 lines long, deeply cleft into live 

 narrow acute divisions: corolla purple, 15 lines long, regular, with five short 

 obtuse lobes, a broad open throat abruptly contracted into a distinct, slender 

 tube f) lines long: stamens didymons; anthers mucronulate : capsule, including 

 the thick solid stipe, 9 lines long, covered with short stipitate glands, 4-8eeded 

 (two to each cell), these Hat aud thin.— Common on the mesas about La Paz 

 No. 20. 

 Carlowrightia cordifolia Gray. Proc. Amer. Acad. XXIV. 406. A ran- plant, 

 growing under shade of bushes on mesas. This plant differs from the poor 

 specimens of the type in the National Herbarium, which has the Howers 

 arranged unilaterally along the spike, and the leaves more strongly veined. 

 The corolla also is described as being white, while Dr. Palmer writes that 

 these are canary color. Mr. Brandegee also referred here a plant from f .rther 

 north. Dr. Palmer got tlie type from Batopilas, Mexico. No. 107. 



Beloperone Californica Bentb. Only two plants seen. No. 98 from the edge of an 

 arroyo. Only a few slender branches in bloom at the top of the phint, which is 

 ;') feet high. No. i)l>, near the bank of a dry creek, was also in ])oor c(mdition, 

 but contained a few capsules as well as flowers. The seeds are smooth (as Mr. 

 Braudegee has pointed out) and not " coarsely rugose," as stated in Syn. Flora. 

 Our seeds are somewhat wrinkled. Nos. 98 and 99. 



Justicia insolita Braudegee. Proc. Cal. Acad, '^nd ser. II. 195. Grows under shade 

 of tices and bushes. A very handsome plant. No. 40. 



Justicia Palmerl Rose, n. sp. About ;5 feet high, cinereous, puberulent: leaves lan- 

 ceolate, 2 inches long, on short petioles, glabrous, or with a little appressed 

 pubescence: flowers few, on small axillary branches or forming terminal pani- 

 cles: bracts 3, foliaceons, spatulate, 3 to 5 lines long, the central one longer 

 and broader: calyx small, H lines long, deeply 5-cleft : corolla scarlet, about 

 1 iuv-h long, deeply bilabiate, its tube C to 7 lines long; lower lip 3-cleft, its 

 oblong lobes 3 to 4 lines lojug ; upper lobe with a slight notch : stamens 2, in- 

 serted in the throat; anther cells 2, pa rallel, unequally inserted, the lower one 

 mucronate: capsule glabrous, 7 lines long, the stout stipe a little more tlan 

 halt its length ; seeds 4, 2 lines long, flattened, cordate orbicular rugose.— The 

 seeds of this species are very similar to those of Siphomgloam PiloaeUa Torr., but 

 in otiier respects it is quite different. Found growing in shade on an arroyo. 

 Very rnre. No. 97. 



Dicliptera resupiuata Juss. Only a few specimens found. This is No. 69 of Xantua 

 Mo. 119. 



VERBENACEiE. 



Lippia Palmeri Watson (Proc. Amer. Acad. XXIV. 67), var. spicata Rose, n. var 

 Th<* flowers are arranged in spikes sometimes over an inch long an<l the whole 

 infliirescence is more compac^. It is called " Origaro" and is used in cooking 

 much as thyme aud sage is in the United States, and especially with fish and 

 sausage, and somelimes in place of tea. No. 62. 



liippia sp. Probably new. No. 104. 



LABIATiE 



Hyptis laniflora Benth. Bot. Sulphur, p. 42. First collected by Mr. Hinds, and after 

 wards by Xantns (No. 71) at Cape St. Lucas, and not since collected until the 

 present season. A good plate (t. 20; is found in the Bot. Sulphur. It is 6 to 

 8 feet high, with few uj»right stems and many lateral branches. It has a sage- 

 like aroma and a decoction made from it is used in fever.s. The people call it 

 "Salvia." Very common. No. 87. 



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