620 MENTHACEAE 



9. Trichostema lanatum Benth. Romero or Woolly Blue-curls. Fig. 4363. 



Trichostema lanatum Benth. Lab. Gen. & Sp. 659. 1835. 



Erect shrub, 5-10 dm. high, the branches erect, leafy, densely floccose-tomentose when 

 young. Leaves narrowly linear with revolute margins, 1-nerved, glabrate and shining above, 

 more or less tomentose beneath, those on the main branches 3-6 cm. long, 4-5 mm. wide, nar- 

 rowed below to a subsessile base, those on the short axillary branchlets numerous and smaller, 

 uppermost reduced to bracts ; cymes in a terminal interrupted thyrsus, the whole inflorescence 

 clothed with a dense violet or purple woolly tomentum ; fruiting calyx 8-10 mm. long ; corolla 

 about 15 mm. long; stamens about 3 cm. long; nutlets 2.5-3 mm. long, reticulate-wrinkled, 

 tomentose. 



Dry rocky ridges, in the chaparral, Upper Sonoran Zone; California Coast Ranges from San Benito and 

 Monterey Counties to the Santa Ana Mountains, Orange County, California. Type locality: California. Col- 

 lected by Douglas. April-Aug. 



10. Trichostema Parishii Vasey. Parish's Romero. Fig. 4364. 



Trichostema Parishii Vasey, Bot. Gaz. 6: 173. 1881. 



Trichostema lanatum var. denudatum A. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. Amer. ed. 2. 2>: 459. 1886. 



Low erect shrub, the branches more or less tomentose, but not long-woolly. Leaves narrowly 

 linear, the margins revolute, canescent-tomentose beneath ; inflorescnce open, the short tomentum 

 not concealing the peduncles and pedicels; calyx 3-4 mm. long; corolla about 10 mm. long; 

 stamens 2 cm. long. 



Rocky ridges, Upper Sonoran Zone; desert slopes of the San Gabriel and San Bernardino Mountains south 

 to the Laguna Mountains, San Diego County, California, and in adjacent Lower California to the San Pedro 

 Martir Mountains. Type locality: Cuyamaca Mountains, California. March-July. 



Rosmarinus officinalis L. Sp. PI. 23. 1753. Rosemary. Small spreading aromatic shrub, with linear 

 revolute-margined leaves. Native of the Mediterranean region. Frequently cultivated in the Pacific States and 

 often seeding spontaneously. 



3. SALAZArIA Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. 133. pi. 39. 1859. 



Shrubs with opposite, divaricate, spinescent branches, and small, entire or rarely 

 toothed, short-petioled leaves. Flowers in the axils of the upper bract-like leaves, form- 

 ing an open narrow raceme. Calyx equally 2-lobed. the lips entire, becominq; inflated into 

 a papery bladder in fruit. Corolla bilabiate, upper lip arched, lower lip broad with 

 recurved margins, its 2 small lateral lobes attached to the base of the upper lip. Stamens 

 4, in two pairs, included in the upper lip. Style entire, included. Nutlets 4, tuberculate, 

 raised on a gynobase. [Named in honor of Don Jose Salazar, Mexican Commissioner on 

 the Boundary Survey.] 



A monotypic genus of the arid southwestern United States and adjacent Mexico. 



1. Salazaria mexicana Torr. Bladder Sage. Fig. 4365. 



Satasaria mexicana Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. 133. pi. 39. 1859. 



Shrub 6-10 dm. high, intricately branched, the divaricate branchlets becoming spiny-tipped, 

 pale green and minutely canescent. Leaves short-petioled, ovate or oblong-ovate, or the upper- 

 most much-reduced and narrowly oblong, 10-25 mm. long, rounded or subcordate at base, entire 

 or rarely toothed ; flowers subsessile in the axils of the foliaceous bracts forming an interrupted 

 raceme; calyx 6-8 mm. long in flower; corolla 12-18 mm. long, pubescent on the outer surface; 

 fruiting calyx papery and subglobose, 16-18 mm. long. 



Desert washes and canyons, Lower Sonoran Zone; Mojave and Colorado Deserts, southern California to 

 southern Nevada, southern Utah and southwestern Texas, south to Lower California and Chihuahua. Type 

 locality: "Ravines, Chihuahua, below Presidio del Norte, near the Rio Grande." April-June. 



4. SCUTELLARIA [Rivin.] L. Sp. PI. 598. 1753. 



Annual or perennial herbs little or not at all aromatic, with flowers solitary or two or 

 three together in the axils, or in bracted racemes or spikes. Calyx campanulate, gibbous, 

 2-lipped, the lips entire, the upper one often with a crest or protuberance on the back and 

 often deciduous in fruit, the lower one persistent. Corolla well-exserted, bilabiate, dilated 

 above the throat, upper lip arched, entire or emarginate, the lower spreading or deflexed, 

 its lateral lobes small and somewhat connected with the upper lip, its middle lobe broad 

 with the margins mostly recurved. Stamens 4, in two pairs, included in the upper lip, the 

 upper pair 2-celled, the lower 1 -celled. Style unequally 2-cleft at apex. Nutlets 4, sub- 

 globose or depressed, borne on a short or elongated gynobase. [Name Latin, meaning a 

 salver or tray, in reference to the fruiting calyx.] 



A genus of about 100 species of wide geographic distribution. Type species, Scutellaria pcregrina L. 



