EASTWOOD. — MEXICAN SPECIES OF CASTILLEJA. 5S7 



animals. It is re]" +a d to C. linariaefoUa, but differs in its shorter 

 tri-nerved leaves, i j pubescence, its pedicellate flowers, and the peculiar 

 lower lip of the corolla, which stands out like a small shelf and must be 

 very conspicuous in the living flower, its dark red contrasting strongly 

 with the light red and yellowish green of the other parts of the flower 

 and bracts. 



44. C. laxa Gray, herbacea cinereo-pubescens ; caulibus e radice pe- 

 rennis subdiffusis ramosis gracilibus ; foliis tenuibus scabridis lineari- 

 lanceolatis integerrimis basi baud dilatatis, floralibus calyce brevioribus 

 rubro-coloratis ; floribus paucis confertis breviter pedicellatis ; calyce ru- 

 bello antice profundius postice breviter fisso, dentibus brevibus obtusis ; 

 corollae galea magna, lobis labii inferioris brevissimis obtusis. — Gray 

 in Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. Surv. 119 (1859) ; Gray, Synop. Fl. N. Am. ii. 

 pt. 1, 296; Hemsl. 1. c. 461. — Sonora : mountain sides near 'Santa 

 Cruz, Wright, no. 1490 ; Los Pinitos, altitude 1830 m., C. V. Hartman, 

 no. 142 (Lumholtz Exped.). Durango : San Ramon, E. Palmer, no. 59, 

 coll. of 1906. Arizona : Santa Catalina Mts., J. G. Lemmon, no. 264. 

 There is an abnormal specimen collected at Alamos in 1890, by E. 

 Palmer, no. 366. 



45. C. stenophylla Jones, suffruticosa 6 dm. alta ramosissima, 

 ramulis rectis subcinereis ; foliis subfiliformibus obtusis 2-5 cm. longis ; 

 floribus rectis in spicis capitatis demum elongatis ; bracteis oblongis 

 acutis nervatis integris vel laciniatis, laciniis lateralibus paucis line- 

 aribus brevibus, media lata ; calyce 2 cm. longo, postice in altitudinem 

 5 mm. fisso, segmentis irregulariter acuminatis vel laciniatis ; corolla 

 calycem superanti 3 mm., galea basi 3 mm. lata, apice 1 mm., dorso 

 glandulosa; labio inferiore triplicato, lobis subulatis incurvatis 1 mm. 

 longis ; capsula oblongo-ovata 1.5 cm. longa. — Contributions to West- 

 ern Botany, xii. 67 (1908). The type was collected at Garcia and in 

 San Diego canon, Sierra Madre, Chihuahua, September, 1903 (hb. 

 Marcus E. Jones). The specimens in hb. Gray are from Colonia Garcia, 

 altitude 2287 m., Townsend & Barber, no. 209, alsoi?. W. Nelson, no. 

 6210 a, in part. According to Marcus E. Jones, the flowers have a 

 green back and red face. At almost all the leaf-axils there are small 

 sterile branchlets slender and very leafy. 



46. C. longibracteata Mart. & Gal., "caule fruticoso erecto gla- 

 briusculo, foliis linearibus acuminatis elongatis 3-nerviis subglabris, 

 floralibus lanceolato-linearibus flore sublongioribus, superioribus vel 

 bracteis obovato-lanceolatis apice fimbriatis, floribus longepeduncu- 

 latis racemoso-spicatis ; calyce . tubuloso-inflato glabriusculo, corolla 

 calycem longe excedente apice pilosa. — Flores 1.5 pollicares, pedun- 

 culi semipollicares. — A Castilleja integrifolia L., cui affinis praesertim 



