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cept veins, oblong-obovate, cuspidate-acuminate, long-atten- 

 iiate to a small obtuse base, shortly petioled, 10-14 inches 

 long : thyrsi in a brachiate long-penduncled foliaceous- 

 bracted panicle, virgate, 6-12 incheslong: cymes subsessile, 

 at length geminate on a bipartite peduncle 3 lines long, 3-10- 

 ilowered, exceeding verticillastrate internodes, small bracts 

 and bracteoles Hnear-lanceolate, pedicels 4-6 lines long : 

 -calyx-segments linear-lanceolate, i^ lines long : corolla 

 straight, 13 lines long, purple, tube equaling inflated 

 thi'oat ; lobes nearly equal, oval, ciliate, posterior one erect 

 and 2-lobuled, others reflexed and 4 lines long : stamens 

 nearl}' equaling corolla-limb, cells equal ; staminodes minute, 

 uncinate. — The allied T. callistachyiis Nees in DC. has 

 Jeaves less minutely and prominently reticulated, cymes sub- 

 sessile, corolla-limb smaller with {ex Nees) superior lobe 

 narrow and entire, stamens very short and included. — Pahsa- 

 mala forest, alt/ 3,800 feet, Oct., 1885, May, 1887 (Ex. Pl. 

 •cit. 740.) 



ScMitellaria lutea. ( § Stachymacris Benth.) — Fruticose ; 



stems terete, fusco-velutinous ; branches and inflorescence 

 canopilose, glandular : leaves like flowers sericeous and atom- 

 iferous, oval to ovate-oblong, 8-15 lines long, crenate, 

 petioles 2-3 lines long : racemes loose 0^5-6 pairs of declinate 

 flowers ; bracts 2-3 lines long, lovver ones foliaceous and 

 petioled: calyx 2 lines long, exceeding pedicels ; crest in 

 fruit enlarged to 4 lines long, obovate, appressed, yellow : 

 corolhi elongate, i inch long, sulphur-yellow, tube 3 Hnes 

 long, throat gradually dilating, lips equal and 2 lines long; 

 posterior lobe of upper lip small, emarginate, its lateral lobes 

 equaling the erect crenulaie plicate-edged lower lip: anthers 

 naked ; filaments margined: disk obovate, nearly equaHng 

 ovarv, contracted to oblique short gynophore : nutlets glo- 

 bose", granulate.— Forest near Santa Rosa, alt 5 

 July, 1887, (Ex Pl. cit. 1,309.) 



Dorsteiiia Cliocoiiiana Watson in Proc. Am. Acad. xxii, 477, 

 var. (v, form.) iiitegrifolia. — Roolstock tuberculate : stems sini- 

 ple or furcate: leaves entire, margins crispate and unduhite : 

 peduncles 1-2 inches long : receptacle acetabuliform, 9-12 

 lines in diameter, turbinate, palHd externally ; border of disk 

 green within, 2\ lines broad ; alveolate areoles quadrate, 

 white, --reen-bordered : pistillate florets 6-7, intermixed with 



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numerous staminate ones : nucules stipitate, obovoid, com- 

 pressed above and below in opposite axes,'a line or more long 



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