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aré not like the smooth seeds of 2. Californica, and the large 
cordate leaves attract attention immediately. 
No. 552, Purpus, San Felipe, Feb., 1901. Growing in shady 
cafions. ' 
Justicia insoLiTa Brandg., var. Tastensis. Stems hispid- 
hirsute; leaves larger, hirsute, indistinctly crenate, otherwise re- 
sembling the type. 
Sierra de la Laguna. No. 511 Purpus, El Taste. 
The type came from San Gregorio, nearly 200 miles to the 
north. 
Ruellia cordata. A shrub 4-5 cm. high with glandular-pu- 
bescent and somewhat viscid leaves and stems; leaves cordate, 
obtuse, 12-15 mm. wide, 10-12 mm. long on petioles 2-3 mm. 
long, the upper ones sessile; flowers solitary on stout, straight 
axillary peduncles 1-2 cm. long; bracts foliaceous, orbicular, 
broader than long, 6-8 mm, in diameter, nearly sessile; calyx 
lobes glandular, varying from broadly to narrowly spatulate, ob- 
tuse or acute, 10-15 mm. long; corolla light purple, 3-4cm. long, 
tube longer than the calyx lobes; stamens didynamous, anthers 
nearly equal; ovules 8. 
No mature fruit collected, Comondu, March 26, 1889. 
Tradescantia peninsularis. Stems prostrate, rooting at the 
lower joints, somewhat zigzag, sparingly pubescent; leaves nar- 
rowly ovate-acuminate, 6-7 cm. long, 2 cm. wide, sessile, sheaths 
tomentose; umbels of 2-3 flowers on pedicels 5-8 mm. long, ses- 
sile in most of the axils and terminal, the terminal one often bi- 
bracteate; bracts similar to the leaves, the upper ones half smaller; 
sepals white pilose; petals light purple. filaments equal, pubes- 
cent to near the tips; anthers with a deltoid connective as broad 
above as the cells; ovary very hirsute; capsule 3 mm. long, 
pilose, 3-celled, cells 2-seeded. 
Collected at many localities in the Cape Region and distributed 
as T. crassifolia, from which it seems to be very distinct. It 
grows under the shade of trees. 
Callisia scopulorum. Annual, stems prostrate, 1-2 dm. long, 
rooting at the joints, glabrous. excepting the ocrez and upper 
part of the stem, which are sparingly pubescent; leaves ovate, 
