Dianthera. ACANTHACE^. 329 



axils: corolla (white or yellowish-white) with tube inch and a half long: lower anther- 

 cell mucronate-appendaged at base. Adhatoda? lonyijlora, Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. 125. 

 S. Arizona, Schott, Rothrock. 



10. BELOPERONE, Nees. (B&og, an arrow or dart, and ntQOvri, some- 

 thing pointed.) Shrubby plants ; with red flowers, all but the following tropical 

 American. 



B. Californica, Benth. Low shrub, with spreading often leafless branches, tomentose 

 or cinereous-puberulent : leaves ovate, oval, or subcordate, petioled : racemes terminating 

 the branches, short, several-many-flowered : bracts and bractlets small, deciduous : calyx 

 deeply 5-parted ; lobes subulate-lanceolate : corolla dull scarlet, an inch long ; both the lips 

 oblong and truncate ; lower 3-lobed at apex : anther-cells oval; lower mucronate at base : 

 capsule obtuse, with broad and long stipe-like base obcompressed : seeds turgid, glabrous, 

 coarsely rugose. Bot. Sulph. 38; Gray, Bot. Calif, i. 588. Jarobinia Californica, Nees 

 in DC. 1. c. 729. Sericographis Californica, Gray in Bot. Mex. Bound. 125. Desert region 

 along the southern borders of California, and Lower California. 



11. JUSTfCIA, Houston, L. (James Justice, a Scotch cultivator and ama- 

 teur.) A large and widely distributed genus, chiefly tropical, represented here 

 by a single anomalous and little known plant. 



J. Wrightii. A span or less high and much branched from a suffrutescent base, cinereous- 

 puberulent : leaves rigid, 3 or 4 lines long, sessile ; lowest obovate ; upper linear-lanceolate, 

 mucronate-acute : flowers solitary and sessile in the upper axils ; bractlets similar to the sub- 

 tending leaf : corolla purplish, 4 lines long, somewhat campanulate ; upper lip with a broad 

 emargination and two short narrow lobes; lower larger with oval-obovate lobes : anther- 

 cells oblong; the lower abruptly short-calcarate ; the upper smaller and mucronate at base 

 (fruit not seen: ovules 4). Calcareous hills along the San Felipe, W. Texas, Wriyhi. (no. 

 445 of 1st coll.). 



12. DIANTHERA, Gronov. (Ais, double, and dv^pa, blooming, used for 

 anther.) Chiefly perennial herbs, mostly American and of warm regions, various 

 in inflorescence and habit : fl. summer. Rhytiglossa, Nees in DC. Frodr. xi. 335. 



1. EUDI ANTHER A. Flowers capitate or spicate on a long and naked axillary 

 peduncle : bracts and bractlets subulate or linear : tube of the (purple or violet) 

 corolla shorter or not longer than the limb : glabrous perennials. 



D. crassifolia, Chapm. Stem barely a foot high, simple or sparingly branched : 

 leaves few in distant pairs, fleshy, linear, or the lowest spatulate-lanceolate and short, and 

 the upper filiform and elongated (4 to 6 inches), about the length of the 2-0-flowered 

 peduncles: corolla an inch long, bright purple: capsule (with the long stipe) of the same 

 length. Fl. 304. Apalachicola, Florida, in wet pine barrens, Chapman. 



D. Americana, L. Stem 1 to 3 feet high, sulcate-angled : leaves narrowly lanceolate, 

 3 or 4 inches long, tapering at base, subsessile : peduncles mostly exceeding the leaves, 

 capitately several-flowered : corolla pale violet or whitish, less than half inch long ; base 

 of lower lip rugose. Spec. i. 27 ; Gray, Man. ed. i. 293. D. ensiformis. Walt. Car. 63. 

 Justicia liiivarifolia, Lain. 111. i. 41. ./. prdnm-nlosa, Michx. Fl. i. 7. ./. Amcr'u-una, Valil, 

 Enuin. i. 140. Rhytir/lossa pedunculosa, Nees in DC. 1. c. 339. In water, Canada to South 

 Carolina, Arkansas, and Texas. 



D. humilis, Engelm. & Gray. Stems a span to a foot high from a creeping base or 

 rootstock, mostly slender: leaves from oblong or obovate-oblong to linear-lanceolate, ses- 

 sile or slightly petioled, 1 to 3 inches long : flowers at length scattered in slender spikes on 

 a peduncle shorter than the leaf: bract and bractlets much shorter than the 5 equal subu- 

 late-linear calyx-lobes : corolla violet or pale purple, 4 or 5 lines long : anther-evils more or 

 less mucronate at base. PI. Lindh. i. 22. D. oi-ata, Walt. Car. 03; Chapm. Fl. 304 

 (with var. lanceoluta & anyusta), a misleading name, as th leaves are never so broad 



