VOL. 5] Plants from Sinaloa, Mextco. 221 
Blechum Brownei Juss. Culiacan and Cofradia. 
Barleria micans Nees. Cerro Colorado. The large flowers 
are bright yellow. 
Carlowrightia Californica Brandegee. This is the common 
species about Culiacan. It is easily recognized by the minute 
calyx of the straw-colored flowers that are secund along the 
leafless spicate branches. 
Justicia Mexicana Rose. Common about Culiacan and 
Cofradia. 
Justicia reflexiflora Rich. Forms of this species grow about 
Culiacan. 
Portlandia pterosperma Watson. Culiacan and very abundant 
east of Altata. 
Houstonia parvula. Annual, erect, 2-5 cm. high, sparingly 
branched, minutely hirsute; leaves linear, spatulate-lanceolate; 1 
cm. long; stipules short, minutely setulose-ciliate; flowers soli- 
tary in the axils of the leaves on pedicels 0.5 mm, long that are 
recurved with the mature fruit; petals minute, shorter than the 1 
mm. long subulate calyx lobes; capsule 34 inferior, broader than 
long, subdidymous; seeds 4-6 in each cell, cymbiform, with 
medial hilar ridge. 
Growing on gravel deposits of the Tamazula River near 
Culiacan. 
Rondeletia sp. Cerro Colorado. 
Bouvardia linearis H. B. K. Cerro Colorado. 
Genipa echinocarpa Gray. Culiacan. 
Crusea villosa Watson. Culiacan. 
Crusea coronata Rob. & Greenman. Common about Cofradia. 
Mitracarpum Schizangium pC. Agreeing with the figure in 
Bot. Beech, excepting that the corollas are longer and more 
slender. Cerro Colorado. 
Apodanthera Roseana Cogn. Altata to Culiacan. 
Maximowiczia Sonore Watson. Altata. Leaves and fruit 
smaller than those of Guaymas specimens. 
Schizocarpum Palmeri Cogn. & Rose. This is the most com- 
mon cucurbit. It is very variable in the form of its leaves and 
abundance of the long, scattered hairs. 
