g. Trichostema Le Blue Curls. 
Annual strongly scented herbs with entire leaves. 
axillary clusters. Calyx Campanulate, deeply o-cleft, t 
upper 3 longer and partly united. Corolla with & narrow 
1. T. oblongum Benth. Stems simple or branching, 
Pilose with spreading hairs; leaf-blades oval, 122.5 om. 
at the base and at both ends, narrowed at the base to a 
entire, softly pilose; flowers few in axillary cymes; ped 
increasing somewhat in fruit; calyx 3 mn. long, pilose-hi 
lanceolate, Subequal, acute, increasing to 5 mm. in fruit 
the tube 2.5 mn. long, the lobes Sonewhat shorter; stamen 
arching; nmutlets 1.5 mn. long, obovate, reticulately 
hirtellous on the ridges. 
q Along roadways and in fields at low elevations. 
Flowers perfect, in 
he lobes unequal, the 
tube and obligue limb. 
15-30 om. tall, softly 
long, obtuse or cuneate 
petiole 3-6 mm. long, 
icels 1-1.5 mm. long, 
rsute, its lobes 
; corolla violaceous, 
S exserted 3-4 mMe, 
sculptured, mimately 
no Y ——~—? Julietta, Henderson 2746. 
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