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nally mostly glabrous, sparingly minutely pubescent below sinuses of 

 lobes, within slightly pubescent about bases of filaments and in nar- 

 row line below posterior sinus; lobes all ciliate; rose-pink, 2 yellow 

 lines and many small diffused sharply-defined red-purple spots with- 

 in throat anteriorly. Filaments flattened, posterior 6 mm. long, an- 

 terior 9-10 mm. long, posterior lanose-pubescent near base, glabrous 

 distally, becoming slightly lanose-pubescent toward apex, anterior 

 lanose throughout; anther-cells 3-3.3 mm. long, lanceolate, cuspidate 

 at base, scarcely muriculate, very densely lanose wath white hairs 

 hairs on the valvular surface, glabrous on the sides. Style 13-15 

 mm. long, filiform-linear, pubescent to glabrous. Stigma 1-1.5 

 mm. long. Capsule 6-7 mm. long, globose to obovoid-globose, 

 dark-brown. Seeds 1.1-1.3 mm. long, broadly lunate-triangular 

 to ovoid, narrower than broad, irregular, rounded; testa dark-brown 

 to nearly black, with reticulations firm, nearly or quite black, en- 

 closing broad, nearly hexagonal, angular, sunken spaces (honey- 

 comb appearance); intrareticular lines not evident. 



Type, dry adobe hills, 5 miles northeast of Boerne, Kendall 

 County, Texas, collected in flower September 16, 1913, F. W. 

 Pennell 5482; in Herb. University of Pennsylvania. 



Thin soil over limestone, adobe soil, Edwards Plateau of Central 

 Texas". Flowering in September. 



Texas. Bexar: Comanche Spring, Lindheimer 149 (A, C, H, 

 M, P, U, Y). Gillespie: Three Mill Creek, Jermy 754 p. p. (M, 

 U); Williams Creek. Kendall: Boerne, Pennell 5482 (A, C, H, 

 J, K, L, M, P, S, U, Y), 10417 (Y). Kerr: Kerrville, Pennell 10369 

 (A, C, T, U, Y). Travis: Austin, Pennell 10454 (H, M, P, Y), 

 Tharp (T). 



13a. Agalinis edwardsiana glabra Pennell, var. nov. 



Stricter, Calyx-lobes .6-1 mm. long, triangular to triangular- 

 acuminate. Mature capsule not seen. Otherwise as in the species. 



Type, arroyos. Devils River, Texas, collected in flower, C. C. 

 Parry (Mexican Boundary Survey 784) ; in United States National 

 Herbarium. 



Arroyos, w^estern Edwards Plateau, Texas. 



Texas. Valverde: Devils River, Parry (Mex. Bound. Surv. 

 784), (H, U). 



14. Agalinis tenuifolia (Vahl) Raf. 



Gerardia tenuifolia Vahl, Sjnnb. Bot. 3:7. 1794. "Habitat in America 

 septentionali." Type in Herb. Universitetets Botaniske Museum, 

 Copenhagen, Denmark, collected by Von Rohren, and said to be pro- 

 bably from Philadelphia, is identified by Dr. C. H. Ostenfeld as agreeing 

 with my number 2681 from Pennsylvania. 



Agalinis tenuifolia (Vahlj Raf., New Fl. Am. 2: 64. 1837.. 



