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Cryptantha suffruticosa, n. sp. 



Perennial, the stout stem woody, much branched above the base, the 

 branches erect, about 30 cm. high; stems setose, or above partly strigose; 

 leaves numerous, sessile, narrowly lanceolate, acute, pustulate-setose 

 above, setose and strigose beneath, 2-4 cm. long; racemes rather dense, 

 simple, erect, a few of the flowers bracteate, 5-10 cm. long; pedicels mostly 

 shorter than the calyx; calyx deciduous with the pedicel when ripe, the 

 lobes lanceolate, acute, erect, glabrous above, densely setose beneath with 

 both coarse and fine hairs, 3 mm. long; corolla tubular-campanulate, 

 2 mm. long; nutlets ovate-triangular in outline, obtuse, 1.5 mm. long, 

 pale brown, narrowly wing-margined, the back armed with about 40 evenly- 

 scattered pale papillae, the ventral side dull, glabrous, the groove open 

 its entire length and gradually widening toward the base. 



Camp Muchacho in the southwestern part of the Colorado Desert, San 

 Diego County, Calif., C. R. Orcutt, No. 2070, Sept. 20, 1890. Type in 

 the U. S. National Herbarium, sheet No. 201,311. 



Closely allied to C. racemosa (Wats.) Greene but readily distinguished 

 by the larger leaves, coarser pubescence, simple racemes, shorter pedicels, 

 larger calyx and larger broader-margined nutlets. 



Stachys caurina, n. sp. 



Perennial, 60-100 cm. high, 4-angled, glabrous, except the angles, which 

 are sparsely armed with short retrorse pustulate bristles; leaves thin, 

 oblong-ovate, acute, rounded or truncate at base, dentate scarcely crenate, 

 sparsely appressed pubescent on both sides, 10 cm. long, 4-5 cm. wide; 

 petioles loosely hirsute, half as long as the blades; inflorescence loose, 

 the flowers in verticils of four; lower bract leaflike, sessile, dentate, the 

 upper much reduced and subentire; calyx broadly funnel-form, loosely 

 villous, 10 mm. long, the teeth subequal, half as long as the tube, narrowly 

 triangular and twice as long as broad, sharply acute, each tipped with a 

 long spine one-fourth to one-third as long as the lobes; corolla purple, 

 nearly glabrous, 25 mm. long, the lower lip considerably longer than the 

 upper. 



Olympic Mts., Clallam County, Wash., July, 1900, A.D.E. Elmer, No. 

 2543. Type sheet No. 401,868 in U. S. National Herbarium. The long 

 narrow teeth of the calyx readily separate this species from S. ciliata Dougl. 



Stachys confertiflora, n. sp. 



Perennial, 60-90 cm. high; stems erect, 4-angled and thickly retrorse 

 prickly on the angles, otherwise glabrous; petioles retrorsely pubescent, 

 less than half as long as the blades, mostly more than half as long as the 

 internodes; blades oblong-ovate, cordate or subcordate, rather obtuse, 

 coarsely crenate-dentate, sparsely hirsute on both surfaces especially on 

 the veins, more so beneath, 8-12 cm. long, half as wide; spike dense 4-5 

 cm. long, of 7-9 close whorls of flowers, densely viscid-puberulent through- 

 out, not at all hirsute; bracts ovate, small, half as long as the calyx; calyx 



