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several erect or spreading hairs on the outer surface near the tip : capsule 

 13 to 15 mm. long, glabrous. — Collected by C. G. Priugle, in a wet 

 barranca above Cuernavaca, altitude 2,000 m., 21 September, 1896, no. 

 6506. 



Justicia Clinopodiuni, Gray, in herb. Stems ascending or erect, 

 usually branching, terete, 2 to 5 dm. high, lineolate pubescent, also 

 covered with long spreading villous pubescence, often interspersed with 

 glandular hairs : leaves short-petiolate, obtuse, entire, subcordate at the 

 base, with a scattered villous pubescence on either surface, especially 

 upon the veins beneath, 2 to 5 cm. long, 1 to 2^ cm. broad : petioles 

 short, 1 to 5 mm. in length ; inflorescence in terminal pedunculate 

 sjjikes becoming 8 cm. long ; bracts and bractlets lanceolate, acute, 10 

 to 15 mm. long, covered on the outer surface and marii;iu with longf 

 villous hairs intermixed with glandular hairs : calyx deejDly 4-parted, 

 the equal or subequal divisions linear-acute, about equalling the bracts, 

 externally villous-pubescent : corolla glabrous, about 2 cm. long, jiurple, 

 the upper lip shortly bifid, the lower deejily 3-lobed, segments subequal, 

 oblong, rounded at the tip : stamens of the genus, but with the adnate 

 portion pubescent : style smooth : capsule glabrous, about 13 mm. long ; 

 seeds compressed, more or less densely covered with shaggy armed 

 trichomes. — Collected by Bourgeau, in the region of Orizaba, 25 August, 

 1866, no. 2901 ; also by Botteri in the same locality without number ; 

 and by Ghiesbreght, in Chiapas, 1864-70, nos. 80, 684. 



BouvARDiA OBOVATA, HBK. A stout glabrous herb nearly a me- 

 ter in height : stems simple, unbranched, angular, striate-suleate ; iuter- 

 nodes 5 to 13 cm. in length : leaves verticillate, 5 to 8 in each whorl, 

 narrowly obovate or oblanceolate, 4 to 12 cm. long, 1 to 3 cm. broad, 

 usually obtusish and submucronate, sometimes acute, entire, revolute, 

 subrepand and often hispidulous on the margins toward the apex, gradu- 

 ally narrowed below the middle to a subpetiolate base, rather dark green 

 to olive green in color (in the dried state), slightly paler beneath ; mid- 

 rib and veins rather prominent, especially beneath ; interpetiolar stipules 

 subdeltoid, acute or short-acuminate, unequally serrulate or sublaciuiate : 

 inflorescence in a terminal close subtrichotomous cyme : peduncles 9 to 

 12 mm. long; the ultimate divisions pruinose-puberulent : calyx deeply 

 4(-5)-parted ; divisions linear, about 3 mm. long, acute, often deeply 

 colored, ciliate or subhispidulous on the margins : corolla tubular, 4(-5)- 

 parted, 2^- to 3 cm. long, deep red or crimson, minutely pruinose or puberu- 

 lent on the outer surface, glabrous within ; lobes ovate, acute, about 4 mm. 

 long : anthers subsessile in the upper portion of the corolla-tube : style 



