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obtuse, entire, glabrous above, usually pubescent along the midrib and 

 lateral veins beneath : inflorescence terminating the stem and branches 

 in leafy-bracted racemose cymes : flowers 1 to 3 in the axils of the 

 bracts : calyx 5-parted to below the middle ; tube glabrous ; lobes lance- 

 attenuate, 4 to 5 mm. long, ciliate, otherwise glabrous : corolla scarlet, 

 subcylindrical, 3 to 3.5 cm. long, 2-lipped to about one third its length, 

 j:)ubescent on the outer surface : ovary glabrous. — Mexico. State of 

 Oaxaca : Cuesta de Quiotepec, altitude 1200 m., 3 August, 1895, L. C. 

 Smith, no. 695 (hb. Gr.) ; near Oaxaca City, Conzatti S,- Gonzalez, June, 

 1900, no. 1231 (hb. Gr.). 



The specimens collected by Mr. L. C. Smith, in the Gray Herbarium, 

 were referred to Anisacanthus virgularis, Nees, from which species, 

 however, A. Gonzalezii differs in having the pubescence of the stem 

 scattered over the entire surface instead of restricted to definite lines, 

 usually broader leaves which are pubescent along the midrib beneath 

 instead of glabrous, and finally by having a glabrous instead of usually 

 glandular calyx. 



Dicliptera inequalis. Stem hirsute-pubescent, with glandular hairs 

 intermixed especially throughout the inflorescence : leaves petiolate, 

 ovate, 3 to 8 cm. long, 1 to 5 cm. broad, acuminate, acute, entire, nar- 

 rowed at the base into the 0.5 to 2 cm, long petiole, hirsute-pubescent 

 on both surfaces, somewhat paler beneath : inflorescence an elongated 

 racemose-paniculate cyme : the flowers in small heads or floral clusters, 

 terminating the primary and secondary branches and either subsessile 

 or on peduncles 3 cm. or less in length : outer bracts of the involucre, 

 unequal, lanceolate, acute ; the inner bracts linear-lanceolate, acute, 

 exceeding the S-jjarted calyx : divisions of the calyx lanceolate, acute, 

 about 3 mm. long, longer than the tube: corolla 12 to 20 mm, long, 

 purplish or dark red ; tube about twice exceeding the lip : fruit not 

 seen. — Mexico. State of Morelos : at Cuantla, near Cueruavaca, 

 altitude 1250 m., 30 May, 1901, C. G. Pringle, no. 9665 (hb. Gr,). 



Dicliptera nervata. Stem and branches obscurely hexagonal, spar- 

 ingly pubescent : leaves ovate, including the petiole 3 to 6 cm. long, 1 

 to 2.5 cm. broad, short-acuminate, obtuse or acute, entire, narrowed at 

 the base into a rather short petiole, sparingly pubescent on both sur- 

 faces : inflorescence in densely crowded axillary verticillasters : involucre 

 1-flowered ; the two outer bracts of the involucre obovate to obovate- 

 rotuud, about 1 cm. long and two-thirds to equally broad, retuse and not 

 unfrequently apiculate, entire, ciliate, pubescent with a few scattered 

 hairs on the outer surface, glabrous on the inner surface, rather con- 



