Tab. 6750. 
ACANTHOMINTHA ILICIFOLIA. 
Native of Lower California. 
Nat. Ord. Laniatz.—Tribe SatursineZ. 
Genus AcantHomintTHa, A. Gray; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 1192.) 
ACANTHOMINTHA ilicifolia; herba annua, fere glaberrima, a basi ramosa, ramis 
foliosis, foliis petiolatis rotundatis v. ovato-cuneatis grosse crenato-dentatis, 
verticillastris paucifloris, bracteis oppositis foliis majoribus sessilibus orbiculatis 
rigidis marginibus callosis longe spinoso-dentatis reticulatis, floribus puberulis. 
A. ilicifolia, A. Gray Synopt. Fl. N. Am. vol. ii. pt. i. p. 365. 
CatamintTHaP § Acanthomintha ilicifolia, 4. Grayin Proc. Amer. Acad. vol. viii. 
p- 368 
A singular little plant, with much the habit of a small 
Lamium, and faintly aromatic smell, but nearer to Cala- 
mintha, to which genus it was originally doubtfully referred 
by its author. Its nearest ally is, according to Dr. Gray, 
the Brazilian genus Glechon, of which there are a good 
many species ; both differ from the characters of the tribe 
to which they are referred (Satwreinew) in the hooded 
upper lip of the corolla. 
A. ilicifolia is a native of the St. Diego country of 
California, bordering on Mexico. The specimen figured 
was raised from seeds sent by Mr. Wright, of St. Diego, 
which flowered in July of last year in the open border. 
The chief interest of the plant is botanical, as being a 
monotypic genus, the affinities of which are with a genus 
of far-distant tropical Brazil. 
_ Descr. A small annual, with a faint aromatic smell, 
nearly glabrous, branching from the root; branches 
spreading and ascending, six to eight inches long, leafy 
throughout. Leaves petioled, half to one inch long, 
rounded or ovate with a cuneate base, coarsely bluntly 
toothed, base narrowed into a petiole shorter than the 
blade. Flowers three to eight in a whorl, in all the upper 
axils; whorls subtended by a pair of opposite bracts, which 
APRIL Ist, 1854. 
