Tas. 6270, 
MONARDELLA macrantua. 
Native of California. 
Nat. Ord, Lasrara.—Tribe SaturEInex. 
Genus Monarvetia, Benth. (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 1185). 
MonaRDELLA macrantha; perennis, pubescens y. puberula, rhizomate repen- 
te, caulibus depressis procumbentibus vy. ascendentibus, foliis ovatis obtusis 
integerrimis, floribus capitatis, bracteis ovatis obtusis viridibus, calyce 
elongato-oblongo, dentibus ovatis acutis, corolle coccinee tubo longe exserto, 
lobis lineari-oblongis subacutis, antherarum loculis brevibus divaricatis. 
M. macrantha, 4. Gray in Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts and Se. vol. xi. p. 100, (Jan. 
1876) et in Botany of California, 593. 
A very beautiful, highly aromatic Californian plant, 
described by Asa Gray very recently, and apparently local, 
as he gives but three localities for it, namely, the Cuiamaca 
Mountains, near Julian city, and north-east of San 
Diego. Our cultivated specimens differ from Gray’s descrip- 
tion in the close heads of flowers, in the corolla not reaching 
an inch and a half in length, and in its brighter colour, being 
more scarlet than orange-red. It was raised by Messrs. 
Veitch from Californian seeds, and flowered in October of 
the present year. 
The genus Monardella is confined to temperate N.W. 
America, and is the largest of the order Ladiate im that 
region, numbering eleven species, and representing in a degree 
the Origanums (Marjorams) of the old world. The rarity of 
this very large order in temperate N. America is one of the 
characteristic features of the flora of that wide region of the 
globe, and it is the more anomalous when it is considered that 
theclimate of California especially would appear to be peculiarly 
adapted to those highly aromatic plants, which abound in the 
analogous climates of the old world. The same remark 
applies to the natural order Umbellifere, which abound in simi- 
lar climates of the old world. 
Descr. A low perennial, with creeping rootstock and slender 
cylindric tufted stems that are procumbent or ascending, more 
or less pubescent or almost glabrate. Leaves small, one half to 
