160 New Species of Lower California Plants. [ZOE 
Guadalupe, north of Todos Santos, to Cabo San Lucas and San 
José del Cabo, and north along the east coast to La Paz and San 
Juan, and it also has been collected on the Island Espiritu Santo, 
Vaseyanthus is described as 1-celled, which it usually is, but a 
fruit from Guadalupe is certainly 2-celled and 2-seeded. The fruit 
seems to be made up of abortive cells. The fruiting cell is cen- 
tral and symmetrically placed with respect to the shape of the 
fruit, while the abortive cells and other fruiting cells are irregular 
in their position. A plant from the eastern coast like the others 
with fruit usually 1-seeded bore also fruit having sometimes five 
seeds; the beak is 2-celled and rarely 2-seeded. 
Houstonia peninsularis. A suffrutescent plant, the terete 
stems 10-30 cm. high, erect, grayish,short-pubescent throughout; 
leaves opposite, in threes or fours, 15-20 mm. long, narrowly lin- 
ear, acuminate, margins revolute; stipules very small, filiform or 
deltoid-acuminate; inflorescence cymose on peduncles 1 mm. long 
or less, pedicels 2 mm. long; calyx lobes 1.5 mm. long, linear- 
lanceolate; corolla purple, tube 7 mm. long, very narrowly fun- 
nel-form, slightly dilated below the spreading lobes; capsule sub- 
globose, calyx adnate nearly to the top; seeds crateriform, mi- 
nutely scrobiculate. 
It grows abundantly in the Sierra de la Trinidad of the Cape 
Region, generally on nearly perpendicular bluffs barren of other 
vegetation. 
HOFMEISTERIA FASCICULATA (Benth.) var. Grayi. Leaves 
cordate-orbicular, obtusely or obscurely lobed, or only crenate, 
sometimes three cleft. 
Rocks near the ocean between San José del Cabo and Cabo 
San Lucas. No. 208, Purpus. 
In describing this variety, I have quoted Dr. Gray. Proc, 
Am. Acad. V. 159. Specimens from Magdalena Bay, the type 
locality, have much dissected leaves and are sometimes more pu- 
bescent than HZ. pubescens, a species not having as distinct a leaf 
form as this variety, Every locality of the Peninsula seems to 
produce a variety of leaf, and when the region is well known 
botanically all will probably be found to intergrade. 
Brickellia peninsularis. Frutescent, 1 m. high; stems 
