172 New Species of Lower California Plants. [zo¥ 
JusTICIA PALMERI Rose. Beloperone Californica conferta and 
B. hians Brandg. 
Carlowrightia Californica. Frutescent, diffuse, 2-3 dm. 
high, sparingly pubescent or glabrate; leaves ovate-acuminate, 
mucronate, 3-5 cm. long, 1-2 cm. wide, on petioles I-I.5 cm. 
long; flowers spicate, terminal or on leafless axillary branchlets; 
bracts linear-lanceolate, 2 mm, long, bractlets minute; calyx 
deeply 5-cleft, lobes subulate, 2-3 mm. long; lobes of the 
cream-white corolla 8 mm. long slightly exceeding the tube; fila- 
ments glabrous, anthers oblong; capsule 14 mm. long, stipe as 
long as the body; seeds light colored, 4 mm. in diameter, mi- 
nutely muriculate, the edges under a lens appearing erose. 
Common throughout the southern part of the Peninsula from 
Comondu to Cape St. Lucas. : 
Beloperone Purpusi. Tomentose and villous: leaves cordate, 
ovate, acuminate; villous especially upon the margins and veins 
beneath, the lower ones 7-8 cm. long, 4-5 cm. wide, on villous 
petioles 2 cm. long, upper leaves short petioled, becoming gradu- 
ally cordate-clasping bracts, broader than long, from the axils of 
which the flowers are produced; calyx villous, 12 mm. long, di- 
vided nearly to the base into 5 linear-lanceolate nearly equal 
divisions, bractlets filiform, 3 mm. long; corolla 3 cm. long, the 
lower lip 3-lobed; anthers unequally inserted upon a broad con- 
nective, the lower one calcarate, the upper sometimes minutely 
so; the continuation of the stamens below the point of insertion 
near the base of the corolla densely white hirsute ; carpels villous, 
2 cm. long, with the stipe like base obtuse; mature seeds, ash- 
colored, nearly spherical, rugose upon the sides, with a slight cen- 
tral ridge, nearly mature seeds are mottled and the central ridge 
1s prominent. 
A comparison with B Californica, of the same region, which it 
somewhat resembles, shows the following differences: the flowers 
may have been reddish, although some of them have dried to a 
bright yellow, the calyx lobes are usually longer and the cor- 
date-clasping bracts give a leafy appearance to the inflorescence 
that the naked flowering stems of 2. California lack. The seeds 
