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Antirrhinum Kingii, Watson, var., with longer pedicels. Col- 

 lected also in Sonora by Piiugle in 1884. Among rocks near Los 

 Angeles Bay. (589.) 



Stemodia dukantifolia, Sw. Flowers white. Muleje. (25.) 



CoNOBEA intermedia, Gray. In dried ro.ky river-bottoms in 

 the mountains about Guaymas. (241.) 



MiMULUs MOSCHATCS, Dougl. On wBt rocks near Guaymas, 

 (664.) 



Crescentia alata, HBK. The gourd-like fruit is subglobose, 

 about 4 inches in diameter, 1-celled (as also the ovary), filled by the 

 pulpy parietal placentae and numerous flattened obcordate seeds (4 

 lines lono-). The species appears to be in every respect a Crescentia. 

 It is cultivated at Guaymas, under the name of " ayal," for shade and 

 for the medical properties of the fruit, which is tilled with water and 

 the liquid afterwards taken as a remedy for contusions and " internal 

 bruises." (85.) 



Martynia althe^folia, Benth. Flowers yellow, lined with 

 orange and dotted below with brown. Guaymas. (114.) 



Martynia fragrans, Lindl. Flowers honey-scented. In low 

 moist places at Guaymas. (326.) 



Martynia Palmeri. Stems herbaceous, prostrate, from a large 

 yellow fusiform root : leaves opposite (the upper alternate), long- 

 petiolate, ovate-cordate, obtuse, the margin sinuate, 1^ inches long or 

 less : inflorescence floccose-pubescent and viscid ; pedicels 2 or 3 

 inches long ; bracts at base of calyx ovate, short, becoming thickened 

 and spongy : calyx campanulate, 5-toothed, 4 to 6 lines long, the 

 throat oblique; corolla li inches long, buff with orange and red 

 stripes and the throat dotted with red : stamens 4 : seeds irregularly 

 oblong, angled and more or less prominently tuberculate, 3 lines long. 

 — Root resembling a carrot and often weighing 3 or 4 pounds ; flow- 

 ers carnation-scented. The green fruit and the seeds are used for food 

 by the Yaqui Indians. Sandy places at Los Angeles Bay. (599.) 



Elytraria tridentata, Vahl. " Cordoncillo" ; used as a remedy 

 for fevers, venereal diseases, etc. In shaded places at Guaymas. 

 (285.) 



RuiCLLiA TUBEROSA, Linn. Under hedges at Guaymas. (98.) 



RuELLiA ? A shrub, 4 feet high, with glandular -pubescent 



narrowly ovate leaves (6 to 10 lines long), and 1 to 3 flowers in the 

 axils upon a very short peduncle ; bracts very small : calyx-lobes 

 linear, acuminate, 5 or 6 lines long ; corolla light purple, 2 inches 

 long, the tube equalling the calyx and the dilated throat longer than 



