FIGWORT FAMILY 783 



1. Galvezia speciosa (Nutt.) A. Gray. Showy Galvezia or Gambelia. Fig. 4755. 



Gambelia speciosa Nutt. Proc. Acad. Phila. 4: 7. 1848. 

 Antirrhinum speciosum A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 7: 376. 1868. 

 Galvezia speciosa A. Gray, op. cit. 22: 311. 1887. 



Plant forming wide clumps, shrubby below, the stems 10 dm. or more long, the young 

 growth herbaceous, the inflorescence and often the new stems and leaves softly pubescent. 

 Leaf-blades elliptic or narrowly so, mucronate or obtuse, semi-coriaceous, 3-4 cm. long, all 

 narrowed to petioles 2-10 mm. long ; floral bracts smaller and narrower ; pedicels becoming 

 15-20 mm. long; sepals lanceolate-attenuate, the upper 8-10 mm. long, the lower slightly 

 shorter ; corolla 20-25 mm. long, the lips about 5 mm. long ; capsule 7 mm. long ; seeds 1 mm. 

 long. 



Rocky canyons, Upper Sonoran Zone; Santa Catalina and San Clemente Islands, southern California, and 

 also Guadalupe Island off northern Lower California. Type locality: Santa Catalina Island, California. Feb.- 

 May. 



14. ASARINA [Lobel.] Mill. Gard. Diet. ed. 7. 1759. 



Diflfuse or twining- perennial herbs. Leaves subopposite to usually scattered or alter- 

 nate, the blades petiolate. Flowers axillary to foliose bracts. Bracteoles none. Sepals 5, 

 distinct or slightly united at base. Corolla yellow, white, or violet-blue, 2-lipped, ventrally 

 pouched at base, the ventral ridges prominent or united distally into a palate. Stamens 4, 

 somewhat didynamous, the anthers tending to adhere and discharge pollen together. 

 Stigmas united, small, slightly capitate. Capsule globose, rupturing across the distal portion 

 of each cell. Seeds irregularly cylindric, with many longitudinal corky-thickened wing-- 

 ridges or lines of tubercles. [Name from the Latin, meaning like Asarum.'] 



Species IS or 20, of Mexico and the southwestern United States, and also of southern Europe. Type species. 

 Antirrhinum Asarina L. 



Palate prominent, nearly or quite closing the orifice of the corolla; pedicels longer than the calyces; leaf-blades 

 entire or trilobate; stems twining; plants mainly or wholly glabrous. 



Leaf -blades narrowed to base, lanceolate; pedicels flexuous, many times longer than the calyces; plants 

 villose near base. 

 Corolla yellow, its palate deeper yellow and puberulent, the basal pouch spur-like, obtuse, projecting 

 from calyx; stems branched from base, extensively twining. 1. A. filipcs. 



Corolla violet, its pale palate violet-reticulated and densely white-pubescent, the basal pouch broadly 

 rounded and scarcely projecting from calyx; stem usually unbranched at base, scarcely twining. 



2. A. strict a. 



Leaf-blades hastately lobed, triangular-ovate; pedicels firmer, 1-3 times the length of the calyces; plants 

 glabrous throughout, the stems extensively twining. 3. A. antirrhinifiora. 



Palate not developed, the corolla yellowish white, with strongly raised and yellow ventral ridges; pedicels shorter 

 than the calyces; leaf-blades rounded-ovate, sinuately sharply toothed, the teeth aristate; stems pendent; 

 plant hirsute. 4. A. petrophila. 



1. Asarina filipes (A. Gray) Pennell. Yellow Twining Snapdragon. Fig. 4756. 



Antirrhinum filipes A. Gray, Ives Rep. 19. 1860. 



Antirrhinum Cooperi A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 7 : 376. 1868. 



Asarina filipes Pennell, Proc. Acad. Phila. 99: 174. 1947. 



Plant glabrous and slightly glaucous, its branched stems diffuse, both the stems and pedicels 

 twining around supports in climbing. Leaf-blades entire, mostly lanceolate and 3-5 cm. long, 

 the lower shorter and wider, all narrowed to petioles 2-6 mm. long; pedicels becoming 30-70 

 mm. long, very slender; sepals 2.5-4 mm. long, lanceolate, entire; corolla 10-12 mm. long, 

 yellow, with raised golden-yellow black-dotted palate; capsule S mm. long; seeds black, 1 mm. 

 long and wide, the wings continuous. 



Sandy soil in deserts. Lower and Upper Sonoran Zones; Great Basin and Mojave Desert, southeastern 

 Oregon to southern California and southwestern Utah. Type locality: along Colorado River in southern Mohave 

 County, Arizona. Feb.-May. 



2. Asarina stricta (Hook. & Arn.) Pennell. Lax Snapdragon. Fig. 4757. 



Maurandya stricta Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beechey 375. 1838. 



Antirrhinum strictum A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 7: 375. 1868. Not A. strictum Sibth. & Sm. 1826. 



Antirrhinum Kelloggii Greene, Bull. Torrey Club 10: 126. 1883. 



Antirrhinum Hookerianum Pennell ex Millsp. Field Mus. Bot. Ser. 5: 222. 1923. 



Asarina stricta Pennell, Proc. Acad. Phila. 99: 175. 1947. 



Plant glabrous and slightly glaucous, its stems simple or somewhat branched, laxly diflfuse, 

 the pedicels twining around supports in climbing. Leaf-blades entire, mostly lanceolate and 

 3-6 cm. long, the lower shorter and wider, all narrowed to petioles 2)-7 mm. long ; pedicels be- 

 coming 50-80 mm. long, slender; sepals 5-6 mm. long, linear-lanceolate, entire; corolla 12-15 

 mm. long, violet, with raised pale violet-reticulated palate ; capsule 6 mm. long ; seeds pale or 

 gray, 0.7 mm. long, the wings broken and plate-like. 



Loam soil, openinfjs in chaparral. Upper Sonoran Zone; coastal hills, Marin County, central California, 

 south to northern Lower California. Type locality: California. April-May. 



